Midnight Commander 4.7.0

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Major changes since 4.7.0-pre4

Core

• Removed charset confirmation on startup and added the automatic recognize of system charset (#1613)
• Some startup speed up (#1781)
• Save flags of select/unselet file group (#1776)
• Don't set TOSTOP attribute on slave terminal (#1637)
• Keybindings for button bars (F1-F10 keys) (#212)
• Keybindings for Tree widget
• Enlarged sizes of Directory Tree dialog window
• Added missed esc sequencies for qansi terminals (#1803)
• New file type bindings:
  • adeed mkv, 3gp video types
  • use exif(1) output when viewing jpeg files
  • opening .chm with kchmviewer with fallback to xchm
  • viewing .mo files with msgunfmt

VFS

• FISH: add the user name to the ssh command line only if it's not the same as the local logged-in user (#1867)
• FTP: support active mode (#1796)
• FTP: improved symlink handling
• FTP: some FTP-servers don't have chmon support. Ignore FTP errors related to chmod operations (#1708)
• EXTFS: added S3 backend by Jakob Kemi (#272)
• SFS: use single script for RPM and SRPM packets handling (#1590)

Editor

• New syntax files: Cabal
• Updated syntax files: Python, PHP
• Syntax highlighting: added '.hh' and '.hpp' file extensions as C++ sources

Misc

• Lots of code cleanup and optimization
• Workaround for SunStudio compiler bug #6888373 (#1749)
• Removed obsolete checks in configuration scripts
• Allow save empty value in history (#1814)
• Use ctrl-g instead of ctrl-c for SIGINT signal (#1876).
• RPM spec: rewritten and simplified static build procedure for legacy distros (#1848)
• Translation updated
• Documentation updates
• Added skin: darker color style (#1659)

Fixes

• Memory and file descriptors leaks
• Crash on start if ~/.mc/panels.ini contains incorrect value of 'sort_order' key (#1790)
• MC aborts when ctrl-c is pressed (#1793)
• Build w/o internal editor (#1826)
• Compilation warings of --disable-nls and --disable-charset options (#1831)
• Incorrect handling of '--with-search-engine' configure option (#1396)
• Segmentation fault when search in different encodings (#1858)
• C-w does not delete whole command line (#407)
• Wrong shortcuts in menu items (#1836)
• Panels state saves and restores despite disabled 'Auto save setup' (#1663)
• Case insensitive file sorting in UTF-8 locales (#1536)
• Incorrect handling of 0xFF char that is valid char in CP1251 locale (#1883)
• Segmentation fault in TreeView loading (#1794)
• Incorect stat info of ".." directory in file panel (#1757)
• Incorect stat info of ".." directory in info panel (#1757)
• Setting "Use passive mode over proxy" is not remembered (#1746)
• CK_Edit_Save_Mode command handling in editor (#1810)
• Incorrect calculation of some utf-8 characters width (#1768)
• Handling CJK chars in editor (#1628)
• Incorrect cursor positioning in editor (#1809, #1884)
• Vertical block handling in editor (#1839)
• Incorrect text scrolling in editor (#1877)
• Incorrect mouse movement in editor when text scrolled to the right (#1792)
• Newlines are lost when pasting multiline text in editor (#1710)
• Mismatched hotkeys EditBeginRecordMacro, EditEndRecordMacro in editor
• Мismatched hotkeys EditBeginningOfText, EditEndOfText, EditBeginPage, EditEndPage (#1724)
• Some syntax files are not installable (#1779)
• Date & time insertion in editor (#1759)
• "Matches not found" message is not shown in viewer
• Hangup after search in archive in viewer (#1873)
• SFS: CPIO VFS skips empty directories in the root of archive (#1732)
• Incorrect parsing FTP-string (#1605)
• LZMA files detect (#1798)
• FISH: broken filenames and timestamps on really poor busybox devices (#1450)
• Minor mistakes and mistypes in man files
• Various doxygen warnings