wiki:NEWS-4.7.0-pre1

Version 16 (modified by slavazanko, 15 years ago) (diff)

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Changes upon 4.6.2:

Core changes:

  • native UTF-8 support
  • filenames charset selection support in panels
  • new unified search/replace engine with search types: Plain, Wildcard, Regexp, Hex
  • extended learn keys
  • locale based codepage autodetection
  • initial support for doxygen generated docs
  • refresh of autoconf stuff
  • translation updates
  • x86_64 fixes
  • new 'Find File' dialog

Editor:

  • various editor enchancements (vertical block marking/moving/copy/paste)
  • navigate across source code through ctags/etags TAGS file
  • new option 'Persistent selection'
  • Del/Backspace? - delete selected block if 'Persistent selection' switch off
  • shift block right with TAB key by TAB size or TAB symbol, shift block left with COMPLETE key if 'Persistent selection' switch off
  • optional show line number
  • various syntax files updates
  • optional highlighting of tabs and trailing spaces
  • add some hot-keys

Misc:

  • show free space on current file system
  • show size of selected files in mini-status bar

Bug fixes:

  • editor undo fixes
  • included many fixes from other distributions
  • fixed fish handling for symlinks and fancy names to be escaped
  • fixed fish permission checks that can be cause of segfault
  • various mc.ext fixes
  • commandline completion fixes (mainly, escaping hadling)
  • small fixes in history handling (locale independent .mc/history entries)
  • slow search in viewer (and we still have place to optimize it)
  • code cleanups, various memleak/etc fixes (many thanks to valgrind)