Midnight Commander 4.7.1

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Major changes since 4.7.0.1

Core

• Minimal required GLib version is 2.8 (#1980)
• Reorganization of source tree structure (#1866, #2037)
• States of all 'Find File' dialog checkboxes are saved in user configuration file (#1874, #1965)
• New file type bindings:
  • viewing .lyx with lyxcat, opening with lyx (#1693)
• Added shortcut (Meta-,) to toggle panels split (#1991)
• Capability to remove history items. !WListbox widget was fully reimplemented (#1445)
• Autodetect codepages of edited/viewed files with enca program (#1838)
• Custom/locale-based date format (#1767)
• New quick search behavior, allow wildcard characters - '*' and '?'(#2022)
• Panels: new sort type 'by version' (#1994)
• Added 'menuinactive' skin item to draw inactive visible main menu (#1999)
• Added ability to show progressbars (when copy files) from right to left (#1443)
• Added indication of total BPS and ETA for file operations; fully rewrited FileOperations dialog (#1443)

VFS

• Small reorganizing (#1931)
• Easy plugable EXTFS VFS (#1909)

Editor

• Some simple optimization of syntax highlighting engine (#1843)
• Show right margin using 'editor_show_right_margin' option. Keybind EditToggleShowMargin in [editor] section is used to toggle the state (#1514)
• New editor action 'Mark all', new keybind EditMarkAll (#1945)
• Changed default for 'Cursor beyond EOL', now it switched off by default (#1946)
• Changed default color pair for 'editbold' (search result) to be more sensible (#1559)

Viewer

• Viewer is now very fast (#1585)
• Added new confirm box for repeat search from begining of file (#1917)

Misc

• Lots of code cleanup (#1780, #1915, #1990)
• Removed obsolete checks in configuration scripts (#262, #1932)
• Documentation updates
• Translation updates

Fixes

• MC won't compile on Solaris due to undefined constant NAME_MAX (#1943)
• MC won't compile on AIX (#1957)
• Missing includes (#1930, #2017)
• Missing printf format (#1960)
• Memory and file descriptors leaks (#1953, #2028, #2053, #2058)
• Small error in versioning (#1905)
• Incorrect start up with some special paths (#1992)
• Segfault in input line history (#1936)
• MC crashes on exit when using C locale (#1942)
• MC crashes at exit due to race conditions of destroying subshell and file manager (#2008)
• Assertion failed for g_array_free (#1954)
• Broken transparency if MC is built with NCurses (#1657)
• Selections not visible on monochrome terminals (#1972)
• Colors of visible inactive menu (#1702)
• Incorrect input line length in 'Edit symlink' dialog window (#1955)
• Unquoted shell variables in user menu (#1967)
• Ctrl-\ key closes the NCurses-based MC (#1926)
• verbose option is always on after MC start (#1940)
• Show total progressbar (and related info) when copying just one subdirdir with lot of files (#1443)
• Incorrecy movement in last line in editor (moving cursor to the empty last line) (#1956)
• Incorrect editor lock files check (#1935)
• Segfault at try of edit (F4) archives with utf-8 names (x86_64 specified) (#1982)
• Editor's search parameters are not retained across editing session (#1572)
• EditColumnMark can't go up through newline (#1998)
• 'Confirm replace' dialog is not converted from UTF-8 to user defined charset (#1986)
• Missed \s symbol in Syntax file (#2010)
• Viewer in QuickView mode corrupts screen (#1918, #1944)
• ViewContinueSearch segfault on empty search (#1996)
• MC crashes if file name in archves contains '@' symbol (#1605)
• deba and debd VFS: items from DEBIAN directory are not accessible (#1920)
• Samba is not built with tcc (#1933)
• Incorrect conditional compilation of mcserver (#1925)
• Potencial security risk in mcserv (#1902)
• The lslR VFS doesn't work with ls-lR files created in en_US.UTF-8 locale and with files and directories started with whitespaces (#1921)
• Contents of RAR archives with filenames that contain / \d\d:\d\d / are not listed correctly (#2029)
• FTPFS: strcpy() is used for overlaping strings (#2018)