Midnight Commander 4.8.12

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Major changes since 4.8.11

Core

• Speed up of file find (#2290)
• If cwd is a symlink it is kept at startup (#3093)
• Improve support of Zsh (#3121, #3124, #3125, #3177)
• Launch external editor/viewer without passing line number (#3117)
• Exit without confirmation by default (#3132)
• Simple user-friendly skin selector (#2165)

VFS

• Use .zip extension as preferred way to recognize ZIP archives (#2857)

Editor

• Configurable selection reset on CK_Store (#3111)

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

• Code cleanup (#3113, #3151)
• Adjust script permissions to installed ones (#2274)
• Fix name of FSF in add source files (#3167)
• Skin cleanups (#3180, #3184)
• Do not consider "String not found" message as error (#3179)

Fixes

• Broken build with NCurses (#3114)
• Incorrect tilde expansion in copy/rename/move dialog (#3131)
• Advanced chown: Escape on user list accepts value (#3150)
• Toggling hidden files using mouse doesn't update the other panel (#3156)
• Question mark in delete confirmation is on its own line (#3123)
• Keypad '*' doesn't work with numlock off (#3133)
• Some inconsistencies in "Learn keys" UI (#3134)
• Unconventional behavior of "Display bits" dialog (#3152)
• Shift-Fn keys don't work in 256-color mode of tmux (#2978)
• mcedit: format paragraph produces inconsistent wrapping (#3119)
• mcedit: file out-of-date check on saving is botched (#3142)
• mcedit: 1st line is shifted after paragraph format (#1666)
• mcedit: trailing newline check applied too early when exiting (#3140)
• Inconsistency of the arrow's direction in the panel header line across skins (#3157)
• Possible segfault while passing messages to widgets (#3116)
• Possible segfault when freeing a VFS (#3116)
• Segfault in cpio VFS while reading corrupted RPM (#3116)
• Segfault in sftpfs VFS when trying to view a file (#3176)
• Incorrect handling of filenames with unrar v5 (#3073)
• FISH VFS: remote panel confused by filenames with '%' (#2983)
• Nicedark skin looks bad on black-on-white terminals (#3154)
• Incorrect definition of "topmiddle" and "bottommiddle" characters (#3183)