mcview is a link to mc, the main GNU Midnight Commander executable. Executing GNU Midnight Commander under this name requests staring the internal viewer and opening the file specified on the command line.

-b

Force black and white display.

-c

Force color mode on terminals where mcview defaults to black and white.

-C <keyword>=<FGcolor>,<BGcolor>:<keyword>= ...

Specify a different color set. See the Colors section in mc(1) for more information.

-d

Disable mouse support.

-f

Display the compiled-in search paths for Midnight Commander files.

-t

Used only if the code was compiled with S-Lang and terminfo: it makes the Midnight Commander use the value of the TERMCAP variable for the terminal information instead of the information on the system wide terminal database

-V

Displays the version of the program.

-x

Forces xterm mode. Used when running on xterm-capable terminals (two screen modes, and able to send mouse escape sequences).

MC_COLOR_TABLE="$MC_COLOR_TABLE:\
normal=lightgray,black:\
selected=black,green"

The help file for the program.

/usr/share/mc/mc.ini

The default system-wide setup for GNU Midnight Commander, used only if the user's own ~/.mc/ini file is missing.

/usr/share/mc/mc.lib

Global settings for the Midnight Commander. Settings in this file affect all users, whether they have ~/.mc/ini or not.

$HOME/.mc/ini

User's own setup. If this file is present, the setup is loaded from here instead of the system-wide startup file.