I have a fresh installation of Debian 7. Upon using Midnight Commander I noticed that auto indentation is disabled. 'No problem' I told to myself and changed the ~/.config/mc/ini file.Surprisingly that did nothing, as soon as I reopened mc the new iniwas overwritten with the previous version.After a little googling I also tried the same with ~/.mc/mc.ini and ~/.mc/ini with no results at all.An strace at least showed me that the ~/.config/mc/ini file is read by mc, but as it seems this file is overwritten somewhat before the read access, which is not traceable in the strace.My next guess was to use a global config file like /etc/mc/mc.ini but that changed nothing either.I really hope someone of you can push me into the right direction.Any help is appreciated and I thank you in advance!EDIT:As suggested below I prevent modification of the ini file via chattr +i $HOME/.config/mc/ini. Right now everything works fine. Does anyone else experience problems like this? Maybe this is a bug.
MC does not apply custom config
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I'm not entirely sure about Midnight Commander itself but it seems like you located the correct config file by using strace. If the file is overwritten before it's read maybe you can try locking down the file with the chattr command so that it cannot be edited.chattr +i $HOME/.config/mc/ini