How to avoid unselect file dialog when pressing minus sign in Midnight commander on macOS
When I try to type a minus character (e.g. open -a TextEdit
) in the MC subshell, instead of minus the Unselect
dialog pops up.
I'm using iTerm2 and Midnight commander via Homebrew.
You need to edit ~/.config/mc/ini
config file and look for only_leading_plus_minus
entry. By default it is set to false
which causes this behavior. If you set it to true
only_leading_plus_minus=true
then -
will trigger Unselect
dialog only if -
is the first character you type which pretty much would never be a problem. If you do not have only_leading_plus_minus
just add it. Make sure you do not have Auto save setup
enabled in your config and if you do, quit all instances of mc
prior editing your ini
.