Midnight Commander 4.8.19

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Major changes since 4.8.18

Core

• Replace $MC_HOME with $MC_PROFILE_ROOT (#3684)
• Store the 'hotlist' file in ~/.local/share/mc instead of ~/.config/mc (#3687)
• Allow rebind TAB key to change panel (#3672)
• Support for True Color (16 millions colors) (#3145)
• Color aliases in skin files (#3711)

VFS

• Support timestamps with nanosecond precision for copy/move operations (#3575)
• Introduce EXTFS helpers tester (#3730, #3744)
• Teach u7z to parse archive listings w/o sizes and/or dates (#2707)

Editor

• Syntax:
  • updates of HTML and ebuild highlighting
  • highlight *.t (Perl test) files as Perl scripts
  • disassociate .cl file extension from LISP syntax (#3691)
• Add syntax highlighting:
  • OpenCL (#3690)
  • YAML (#3293)

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Misc

• Code cleanup (#3693, #3703, #3721)
• Add true color skins: 'Four seasons' (#3724)

Fixes

• Segfault on switching left panel to Info (#3700)
• Broken compatibility with ncurses (#3697)
• Setting MC_HOME makes mc ignore ~/.bashrc (#3684)
• mc_tmpdir() use a buffer of only 64 characters (#3736)
• Some bugs in the parsing of hexadecimal search patterns (#3694)
• Hexadecimal search fails on binary data (#3589)
• Improper use of IEC and SI prefixes for size (#3666)
• Broken file list resorting on double click on panel header line (#3715)
• Wrong dialog resizing and positioning (#3714, #3723)
• Widget's 'disabled' status is not toggled immediately (#3716)
• Last item of 'Options/Layout/Horizontal' radiobuttons remains highlighted (#3717)
• 'Options/Layout/Equal split' checkbox gets reverted (#3718)
• Mix of MSG_NOTIFY and MSG_FOCUS messages (#3731)
• skins: 'window-state-char' and 'window-close-char' are parsed as colors (#3710)
• mcview: an error message about bad regexp isn't shown (#3720)
• mcedit: fix etags filenames parsing (#3698)
• mcedit doesn't show search error messages when searching backwards (#3735)
• Incorrect zoo archive listing (#3696)