This is meant as a howto / solution if anyone else got into that issue.
It seems, my mistake, I changed some settings in my mc... So, midnight commander (mc) no longer showed hidden files and folders. I can still navigate in there by using ls -l in it's console, and then change manually (in mc's console) into such folders...
I tried finding the "hidden" entry in ~/.config/mc/ini, but first to no prevail... But then I found the entry. It is named
show_dot_files and was set to false.
What you have to do to undo this:
The menu way:
Options -> Panel options -> Set the "X" into "Show
hidden files"
The manual way:
(Since I not found the entry in any menus, and I also have no clue if this could be switched on and off by a keyboard shortcut)
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Exist all running mc's for that user, or else another mc might overwrite on exit the setting you are gonna restore.
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Edit mc's ini file. best not to use mcedit for that, but another unrelated editor, like so:
Code:
# vi ~/.config/mc/ini
Find the entry show_dot_files=false and replace it with
Code:
show_dot_files=true
Save the ini file and start mc anew, and all hidden files and folders are there once again.
I found in the man page of mc:
Quote:
Panel options
Main panel options
Show hidden files. If enabled, the Midnight Commander will show all
files that start with a dot (like ls -a). Disabled by default.
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But, for all my mc's, that option was set to "enabled", aka show hidden files and folders...