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#2511

Midnight Commander 4.8.0-pre1

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WARNING: Configuration files from your $HOME/.mc directory was moved to XDG_CONFIG_* directories to respect ​FDO standard. To get more information, see ticket #1851.

Major changes since 4.7.5

Core

  • Added 256 colours support (#2169, #2173, #2475)
  • Changed default text in filtered view (alt-!) to input command line (if not empty) or stay old behaviour (current file under cursor) (#2266)
  • Added simple swap mode that means the swap of panel locations, in addition to current swap of panel content (#2368)
  • Сonfiguration files now moved to directory specified in XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable (#1851)
  • Panel options are read now from [Panels] section only. [Midnight-Commander] section is not read (#2305)
  • "Show mini info" checkbox was moved from the "Layout" dialog window to the "Panel options" one (#2305)
  • 'Find Files' improvements:
    • support relative ignored directories (#2275);
    • handle of ignored directories in dialog window (#2275);
    • "Search for content" checkbox is enabled by default (#2462)
  • Added hardlinks detection for filehighlight (#2478)
  • Unification of keybind names (#2511):
    • most of keybinding names are changes to unify that names. Table of old and new names is available in doc/keybind-migration.txt;
    • improve of key rebinding: previously, to rebind some keys, used must redefine the entire section where that bindings are placed in user keymap file. New merge algorithm doesn't require that and allows rebind only wanted keys;
    • added --nokeymap command line option to disable external keymaps.

VFS

Editor

  • New engine of the editor macro (#323)
  • Multiply repeat of the recorded actions (#323)
  • Call extermal scripts from the editor (#323, #2512)
  • Added REDO action (#25)
  • Group UNDO by action (#27)
  • Selection is not reset after execute user menu (#2463)
  • Vertical selection is not reset after copy/move (#2504)
  • More intuitive word left/right action (now the cursor stop beside EOL/BOL) (#2483)
  • Duble-click marks the current word. Added action EditMarkWord to mark word, EditMarkLine to mark current line (#2499)

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

  • Minor enhancement in mc.ext:
    • added -C key to nm utility in View action for static libraries (#2485)
  • Added new entries in cedit.menu: "Sort selection", "Upper case", "Lower case".
  • New skins:
  • Updated skins:
  • Code cleanup (#2481)

Fixes

  • Broken Del & Backspace in dialogs (in locale CP866) (#1634)
  • Screen and input corruption under xterm in non-UTF locales (#1668)
  • Alt-Backspace shortcut doesn't work (#2455)
  • Broken command autocompletion (#2458)
  • Swap panels doesn't respect sort options (#2368)
  • File list format of panel is initialized incorrectly after switch back from quick view or info mode to file list one (#2390)
  • Main menu is not drawn correctly after change of it visibility and activity (#2466)
  • MC switches to left panel after call of command history using mouse (#2459)
  • Find file: don't check content regexp if search for content is not used (#2464)
  • Color of panel header cannot be set in the command line (#2170)
  • Editor: incorrect restore selection after UNDO (#2456)
  • Editor: segfault after getting the previous char in utf8 (#2484)
  • Editor: incorrect detection of the word boundary (added '{', '}' as end of word) (#2500)
  • Bold and selected colors of viewer cannot be set in the command line (#2489)
  • Diff viewer: quick left/right movements don't work in non-default key maps (#2509)
  • Made AI_ADDRCONFIG optional for RFC 3493 non-compliant systems (#2401)
  • isoinfo adds ";1" to the end of file name when Joliet without Rock Ridge is used (#2471)