I have a problem with Midnight Commander that I am finding exceptionally annoying. I hope that you can provide some relief to me.

I want to use Midnight Commander without mouse support, with mouse actions invoking my X terminal emulator program's functionality rather than being passed through to Midnight Commander. So I invoke Midnight Commander with the command-line option that does that, via an alias <pre>alias mc='mc -d'</pre>

This works all well and good &hellip; until I press <kbd>F4</kbd> to edit a file. Because (I think) I am using the so-called _internal_ editor, this brings up `mcedit`, to which all of my mouse actions are passed because the mouse is enabled in it.

I know that the `-d` option works when I manually invoke the editor with `mcedit -d` and a file. How do I get the same when `mc` invokes the editor with <kbd>F4</kbd>?

Midnight Commander has this option of not using the mouse for both its `mc` and `mcedit` programs and I want to know how to turn it on throughout the whole of Midnight Commander, including when invoking its supposedly _internal_ editor (that surely, if it _were_ internal, should be respecting the `-d` option that I gave to `mc`).

Latter Edit: I have shell variables EDITOR and VISUAL set to '/usr/bin/mcedit', now I just changed them to `/usr/bin/mcedit -d` ... still don't work, then I tried to set a path with higher priority where I put a script called mcedit that call `/usr/bin/mcedit -d $*` (verified that is first with `which mcedit`) ... still same problem