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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MC problems
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 16:48:13 -0700
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Stephan Forth wrote:
> 
> Hi networld,
> 
> I just installed the mc package. It works fine, except if I try
> to edit a file (pressing F4). I always get an error:
> 
>         missing }
> 
> I've gone thru all configuration files, but couldn't find anything
> about it.
> 
> Thanks for your assistance.
> 

Have you defined an EDITOR variable in your .profile file? If not, mc 
uses (shudder) vi.

Check the mc man page, too.

-- 

Ken

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