Midnight Commander 4.7.2

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Major changes since 4.7.1

Core

• Quick Search mode is defined by quick_search_case_sensitive option (#2022)
• Mouse wheel doesn't change sorting preferences in panels (#2093)
• Interactive help is displayed with dynamically run-time formatting (#1561)
• Improvement of double and single lines support in skins (#1648)

Editor

• Remove selected text before input or paste from clipboard (in non persistent selection mode) (#2155).
• Case insensitive syntax highlighting (#1770)
• Current syntax scheme is highlighted in 'Choose syntax highlighting' dialog (#1754)
• Added ini.syntax (#2126)

Viewer

• Fixed jump to end of file (#2135)

Diff viewer

• A built-in tool to visual compare and merge two files (#120, #2159)

Misc

• Added support for AM_SILENT_RULES (#2134)
• Lot of code cleanups (#1949, #2041, #2078, #2097, #2119)
• Renamed color keywords (#1660):
  • menu -> menunormal
  • linestate -> editlinestate
• Added new skins:
  • nice and dark (#1791)
• Updated file extension for "sh" (#2127)
• Documentation updates
• Translation updates

Fixes

• Segfault in panelization of file find results (#2068)
• Segfault in standalone editor and viewer (#2087)
• Memory leaks (#2069, #2108)
• If dialog was canceled, input line content is saved in history (#2082)
• MC says "File exists" trying create directory with empty filename (#2014)
• User asked twice about overwriting file in move across file systems (#2125)
• Deleting symlink to directory scans dir structure first (#2121)
• Incorrect layout of file operation dialog in non-verbose mode (#2099)
• MC proposes ".." as a dirname with automatic name filling (#2056)
• MC treats files ending with a dot as gzip (#2114)
• Broken default regexp mask in filecopy dialog (#2001)
• Misleading label "Status:" in the Info panel (#2146)
• Can't define help window background via skin (#1701)
• i18n_checktimelength may vary depending on the season (#1671)
• Build breaks on ignored return values (#1897)
• Incorrect cursor position after "Cursor beyond end of line" mode switched off (#2094)
• Incorrect overwrite behavior with UTF-8 codeset in editor (#2081)
• Incorrect toggling state of ruler in viewer (#2067)
• Superfluous "Search done, Continue from begining?" dialog in viewer (#2091)
• Turning on wrap mode does not scroll left/right the file view (#2107)
• Cannot scroll wrapped long lines in viewer (#2086)
• Fixed EOL/BOL movements in plain mode (#1734)
• Text area is not updated in hex mode (#2005)
• Incorrect handling of archives in EXTFS VFS (#1909)
• Segfault in symlink handling within archives
• urar EXTFS doesn't correctly show localized filenames in RAR archives (#2049)
• urar EXTFS: disable RAR/UNRAR user/system configuration for archive list and copyout operations (#2050)
• Patches adding a single line are not shown correctly by patchfs (#2149)
• uzip EXTFS: fixed Y2K bug (#2122)