Midnight commander color settings

Hi, I have changed a bit of color settings in mc, but I couldn't change filehighlighting colors, such as directories or executables. Various internet sources say, that just add "directory=foreground,background:executable=foreground,background" to ini file, but it doesn't work and there is no keywords such as directory or executable in the color section in man page too.
any ideas?
Last edited by kreoso (2012-04-13 21:23:25)

try mc --help-color and take a look at wiki http://www.midnight-commander.org/wiki/doc/common/skins
and you can take a look at my scheme http://blog.gonzih.org/blog/2013/02/14/ … or-scheme/

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