= Color schemes =

Midnight Commander supports color schemes. This allows to change the look of all elements of the program interface.
If you not need for colors, you may run Midnight Commander with {{{-b}}} or {{{--nocolor}}} option.

== Colors in Midnight Commander ==

Color of any interface element described by color pair:

||Color for text and background|| Colors just for text||
||black||gray||
||red||brightred||
||green||brightgreen||
||brown||yellow||
||blue|| brightblue||
||magenta||brightmagenta||
||cyan||brightcyan||
||lightgray||white||


== Definition of color scheme ==

Default color scheme now hardcoded and noo able to change without recompile of project. At start of program first initialized default color scheme. Then analyzes the user-defined color schemes. User has four opportunities to redefine the colors of interface elements Midnight Commander:
 * in section [Colors] in {{{~/.mc/ini}}} configuration file;
 * in section describing the terminal in {{{~/.mc/ini}}} configuration file.You can define your color scheme for each type of terminal;
 * in environment variable MC_COLOR_TABLE;
 * through the command-line {{{-C}}} option (or {{{--colors}}} option).

Each of these settings supplements or replace previous settings


== Default color scheme ==

||Parameter||Value||Description||
||normal||lightgray,blue||Main color||
||reverse||black,lightgray||Inverse color||
||gauge||white,black||Progressbar indicator||
||input||black,cyan||Input string||
||selected||black,cyan||Panel: current file||
||marked||yellow,blue||Panel: marked file||
||markselect||yellow,cyan||Panel: current marked file||
||directory||white,blue||Panel: directory||
||executable||brightgreen,blue||Panet: executable file||
||link||lightgray,blue||Panel: symlink||
||stalelink||brightred,blue||Panel: stale symlink||
||device||brightmagenta,blue||Panel: file of device||
||core||red,blue||Panel: core-file||
||special||black,blue||Panel: special file||
||dnormal||black,lightgray||Dialog window: main color||
||dfocus||black,cyan||Dialog window: color of focused element||
||dhotnormal||blue,lightgray||Dialog window: Color of character for hotkey||
||dhotfocus||blue,cyan||Dialog window: Color of character for hotkey in focused element||
||errors||white,red||Error message: main color||
||errdhotnormal||yellow,red||Error message: Color of character for hotkey||
||errdhotfocus||yellow,lightgray||Error message: Color of character for hotkey in focused element||
||menu||white,cyan||Menu: main color||
||menusel||white,black||Menu: selected item||
||menuhot||yellow,cyan||Menu: Color of character for hotkey||
||menuhotsel||yellow,black||Меню: Color of character for hotkey in selected item||
||helpnormal||black,lightgray||Help: main color||
||helpitalic||red,lightgray||Help: italic text||
||helpbold||blue,lightgray||Help: bold text||
||helplink||black,cyan||Help: unselected text link||
||helpslink||yellow,blue||Help: selected text link||
||viewunderline||brightred,blue||Viewer and editor: underlined text||
||editnormal||lightgray,blue||Editor: main color||
||editbold||yellow,blue||Editor: color of highlighted search results||
||editmarked||black,cyan||Editor: marked text||
||editwhitespace||brightblue,blue||Editor: tabs and trailing spaces||
||editlinestate||white,cyan||Editor: color of status field for lines||


== Description of format user-defined color scheme ==

Use short help by calling:
{{{
$ mc -H
or
$ mc --help-colors
}}}