Editing Midnight Commander's color scheme

In a previous post I was sort of laying out a "formula" on how to transform your Midnight Commander default color scheme into a trasnparent skin, without talking too much about how you can change the other colors.

To my great shame, I didn't pay too much attention to this blog or to the comments asking for further advice. I found Mateus' comment rather late (just now!) and decided to dig further, in order to find out how exactly to deal with more refined color changes, while still keeping the transparent background (in both in Midnight Commander and its editor).

Core dumps

Since I'm interested in examining core dumps (in order to submit them to the ones developing the application that crashed) I prefer to keep core dumping enabled at all times on my systems.

Here is a brief hands-on to core dumps management.