wiki:NEWS-4.7.2

Version 42 (modified by zaytsev, 15 years ago) (diff)

#1671

Midnight Commander 4.7.2

It's preliminary version for to be ready for release any day.

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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)

VFS

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)

Viewer

Diff viewer

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

Misc

  • Added support for AM_SILENT_RULES (#2134)
  • Renamed color keywords (#1660):
    • menu -> menunormal
    • linestate -> editlinestate
  • Added new skins:
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • i18n_checktimelength may vary depending on the season (#1671)