<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"/> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"/> <link rel="stylesheet" href="mandoc.css" type="text/css" media="all"/> <title>MCVIEW(1)</title> </head> <body> <table class="head"> <tr> <td class="head-ltitle">MCVIEW(1)</td> <td class="head-vol">GNU Midnight Commander</td> <td class="head-rtitle">MCVIEW(1)</td> </tr> </table> <div class="manual-text"> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="NAME"><a class="permalink" href="#NAME">NAME</a></h1> <p class="Pp">mcview - Internal file viewer of GNU Midnight Commander.</p> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="SYNOPSIS"><a class="permalink" href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a></h1> <p class="Pp"><b>mcview</b> [-bcCdfhstVx?] file</p> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="DESCRIPTION"><a class="permalink" href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></h1> <p class="Pp">mcview is a link to <b>mc</b>, the main GNU Midnight Commander executable. Executing GNU Midnight Commander under this name requests staring the internal viewer and opening the <i>file</i> specified on the command line.</p> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="OPTIONS"><a class="permalink" href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a></h1> <dl class="Bl-tag"> <dt id="b"><a class="permalink" href="#b"><i>-b</i></a></dt> <dd>Force black and white display.</dd> <dt id="c"><a class="permalink" href="#c"><i>-c</i></a></dt> <dd>Force color mode on terminals where <b>mcview</b> defaults to black and white.</dd> <dt id="C"><a class="permalink" href="#C"><i>-C <keyword>=<fgcolor>,<bgcolor>,<attributes>:<keyword>= ...</i></a></dt> <dd>Specify a different color set. See the <b>Colors</b> section in mc(1) for more information.</dd> <dt id="d"><a class="permalink" href="#d"><i>-d</i></a></dt> <dd>Disable mouse support.</dd> <dt id="f"><a class="permalink" href="#f"><i>-f</i></a></dt> <dd>Display the compiled-in search paths for Midnight Commander files.</dd> <dt id="t"><a class="permalink" href="#t"><i>-t</i></a></dt> <dd>Used only if the code was compiled with S-Lang and terminfo: it makes Midnight Commander use the value of the <b>TERMCAP</b> variable for the terminal information instead of the information on the system wide terminal database</dd> <dt id="V"><a class="permalink" href="#V"><i>-V</i></a></dt> <dd>Displays the version of the program.</dd> <dt id="x"><a class="permalink" href="#x"><i>-x</i></a></dt> <dd>Forces xterm mode. Used when running on xterm-capable terminals (two screen modes, and able to send mouse escape sequences).</dd> </dl> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="COLORS"><a class="permalink" href="#COLORS">COLORS</a></h1> <p class="Pp">The default colors may be changed by appending to the <b>MC_COLOR_TABLE</b> environment variable. Foreground and background colors pairs may be specified for example with:</p> <p class="Pp"></p> <pre>MC_COLOR_TABLE="$MC_COLOR_TABLE:\ normal=lightgray,black:\ selected=black,green"</pre> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="FILES"><a class="permalink" href="#FILES">FILES</a></h1> <p class="Pp"><i>/__w/mc/mc/install-prefix/share/mc/help/mc.hlp</i></p> <dl class="Bl-tag"> <dt></dt> <dd>The help file for the program.</dd> </dl> <p class="Pp"><i>/__w/mc/mc/install-prefix/share/mc/mc.ini</i></p> <dl class="Bl-tag"> <dt></dt> <dd>The default system-wide setup for GNU Midnight Commander, used only if the user's own ~/.config/mc/ini file is missing.</dd> </dl> <p class="Pp"><i>/__w/mc/mc/install-prefix/share/mc/mc.lib</i></p> <dl class="Bl-tag"> <dt></dt> <dd>Global settings for Midnight Commander. Settings in this file affect all users, whether they have ~/.config/mc/ini or not.</dd> </dl> <p class="Pp"><i>~/.config/mc/ini</i></p> <dl class="Bl-tag"> <dt></dt> <dd>User's own setup. If this file is present, the setup is loaded from here instead of the system-wide startup file.</dd> </dl> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="LICENSE"><a class="permalink" href="#LICENSE">LICENSE</a></h1> <p class="Pp">This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. See the built-in help of Midnight Commander for details on the License and the lack of warranty.</p> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="AVAILABILITY"><a class="permalink" href="#AVAILABILITY">AVAILABILITY</a></h1> <p class="Pp">The latest version of this program can be found at https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/midnightcommander/ .</p> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="SEE_ALSO"><a class="permalink" href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE ALSO</a></h1> <p class="Pp">mc(1), mcedit(1)</p> </section> <section class="Sh"> <h1 class="Sh" id="BUGS"><a class="permalink" href="#BUGS">BUGS</a></h1> <p class="Pp">Bugs should be reported to https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc/issues .</p> </section> </div> <table class="foot"> <tr> <td class="foot-date">March 2025</td> <td class="foot-os">MC Version 52e18d0</td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>