Midnight Commander 4.8.20

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Major changes since 4.8.19

Core

• Rename key bindings:
  • [main].PanelListingSwitch -> [panel].CycleListingFormat
  • [main].PanelListingChange -> [main].SetupListingFormat
• Speed up of UTF-8 normalization for frequent cases (#3616)

VFS

• extfs helpers tester:
  • diff of failed tests is now included in output to ease bug reporting (#3784)

Editor

• Syntax:
  • ES2015 support (#3793)
  • TypeScript support (#3794)
  • Ada 95 updates (#3804)
  • Apache Hive QL support (#3828)
  • SQL & PHP keyword updates (MidnightCommander/mc#129)
  • Simplification of case insensitive file name patterns in /usr/share/mc/syntax/Syntax file (#3829)
  • Markdown (initial support) (#3864)
  • Protocol Buffers and gRPC support (#3868)
• Add %c (cursor offset from BOF) support for user menu macros (#3867)

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Misc

• Unify curses initialization for various curses implementations (#3697)
• Highlight txz extension as archive like tgz, etc. (#3782)
• Add new media extensions to filehighlight.ini (#3834)

Fixes

• Wrong --help message for mcview, mcedit and mcdiff (#3805)
• Compression from menu broken due to bad quoting (#3840)
• --with-homedir gives "yes" as config directory (#3836)
• External panelize: opening a file with an absolute path fails (#2942)
• Filter isn't cleared when entering empty string (#3813)
• Panelization is not kept while switching panel listing mode (#3810)
• Cannot tab out of a QuickView panel (#3815)
• Cannot use the F10 key in a QuickView panel (#3816)
• Wrong INPUT_COMPLETE_CD flag handling in the QuickDialog engine (#3870)
• mcview: file interpreted as latin1 instead of utf8 (#3783)
• mcview: incomplete read of filtering data (#3817)
• mcview: search doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3819, #3855)
• mcview: goto doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3826)
• mcview: quick view panel: crash on slow startup while switching panel mode (#3846)
• mcedit: fix broken encoding into UTF-8 for 8-bit displays (#3843)
• mcedit: incorrect %f macro substitution in the user menu (#3861)
• man pages: wrong paths of mc.hint and mc.hlp (#3806)
• subshell: fix broken tcsh 6.20+ cd escaping (#3852)
• VFS: incremental tar doesn't contain empty directories (#2297)
• VFS: incremental tar: wrong directories owner for tar --numeric-owner -g (#3709)
• VFS: timestamps not being preserved due to uninitialized struct stat st_[acm]tim.tv_nsec (#3821)
• VFS: ftp: can't retrieve password from .netrc when user is in URL (#3869)
• VFS: tests: locale issue causing helpers using 'sort' to fail (#3787)
• VFS: tests: unportable 'echo' use causing one rpm helper test to fail (#3786)
• Spelling errors in the manual page (#3839)