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)

* Exist all running mc's for that user, or else another mc might overwrite on exit the setting you are gonna restore.
* Edit mc's ini file. best not to use mcedit for that, but another unrelated editor, like so:
Find the entry show_dot_files=false and replace it with 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:
But, for all my mc's, that option was set to "enabled", aka show hidden files and folders...

due to LQ's zero-reply-policy, i think this would have been better posted on a blog.

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^
And how do I post blogs on LQ? Is there a howto somewhere for that?

Worth a rep point from me anyhows. Over Here.http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/blog/

You can click on my messy blog links in my posting profile to see it is just done like posting a thread.

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Done:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...folders-36267/

Now that I posted it, I see it got put into "Uncategorized"... I somehow missed the categories while editing the blog entry...
I think I cannot change it into a better category afterwards?

... now, can a mod remove this entire thread? Or is that not possible?