Midnight Commander 4.7.3

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

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Major changes since 4.7.2

Core

• Now we can use external utility to copy/paste text to X clipboard (#30)
• Reorganization of menu and configuration dialogs. More options are available in UI (#320)
• Removed hardcoded shortcuts in dialog.c (#212)
• Use system realpath(3) function if available (#1911)
• Added new actions for panels: PanelMarkFileUp and PanelMarkFileDown (#2021)
• Added new capability to create relative symlinks: menu item and "C-x v" default shortcut (#2042)
• Cursor is hidden in menu and listboxes (#1771)
• All hotkeys in MC (in menu, checkboxes, etc) in the middle of a word are in the lowercase now (#2168)
• Mark of text in input fields is available now, DEL removes selected/unchanged text (#2161, #2228)
• GLib deprecated functions are not used (#2085)

VFS

• Unified charset list is used in core and in VFS (#2203)

Editor

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

• Changed main URL for bug reports (#2025)
• man2hlp: completely rewritten in Perl (#45)
• Skin updates:
  • gotar.ini (#2179)
• Removed leading and trailing spaces in i18n'd resources (#1646)
• Translation updates

Fixes

• AC_TRY_RUN macro breaks crosscompile (#1959)
• "mc -e" and "mc -v" modes don't work (#2187)
• Incorrect calculation of autocomplition window width (#2192)
• Oversized dialog backgrounds not painted in NCurses-based MC (#2157)
• Incorrect colors of directory tree (#2212)
• Info panel is initially filled too late (#2226)
• Segfault in standalone editor and viewer (#2178)
• Broken codeset autodetection in editor and viewer (#1838)
• mcview segfaults trying open a compressed man page file (#2236)
• Edit crashes while opening some incorrect files (#2183)
• Editor hangup if editor_tab_spacing equals to 0 (#2196)
• Crash on search in viewer after Parsed/Raw? switching (#2195)
• Diff viewer crashes if tab size is equal to 0 (#2182)
• Buttonbar mouseclicks are off (#2199)