PSS: I figured it out. It now goes to the line number in both view and edit
modes
in ~/.bashrc added:
# mc needs VIEWER or PAGER as well as EDITOR set in order to pass line number
VIEWER=tilde
EDITOR=tilde
in ~/.config/mc/ini added:[External editor or viewer parameters]
tilde=%filename:%lineno
PS: I'm using mc version 4.8.18 on AntiX17 which is based on Debian Stretch and
mc comes preinstalled and preconfigured, but I did add the mc-wrapper.sh mode.
I am running it from an mrxvt-mini terminal, but I don't think that is causing
my troubles.
On Sunday, March 18, 2018, 11:16:30
When I use Find file to get a list of files containing a string, if I am using
the internal viewer and press F3 on a file from the list it opens the file in
the viewer and positions me on the line number it found the string at, but when
I use Tilde, it tries to open the line number itself as a