Inaccuracy I m deleting mcedit is a separate executable which can also be used independently of Midnight Commander file which mcedit usr bin mcedit symbolic link to mc file L which mcedit usr bin mcedit ELF 32 bit LSB executable Intel 80386 version 1 SYSV for GNU Linux 2 4 1 dynamically linked uses shared libs for GNU Linux 2 4 1 stripped Also read the man page There is a cooledit which is supposedly the original codebase for the mcedit code of mc but mcedit is builtin Color Screenshot Or at least mc in a white on black terminal But really you almost never see it without color