Midnight Commander 4.8.22

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Major changes since 4.8.21

Core

• Support BTRFS's file clone operation (#1983)
• Find file: show pattern and content in the results window title (#3453)
• Find file: remember state (empty or not) of Content field (#3924)
• Improve support IBM i (#3927)
• Improve handling of hard link creation errors (#3678)
• Support user-defined prompt in the Fish subshell (#3944)

VFS

• sftp: preserve atime and mtime (#3917)

Editor

• man page cleanup (#3918)
• syntax:
  • PHP - highlight keyword 'null' (#3920)
  • Meson - initial implementation (#3940)

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

• ext.d: use MPV as a fallback for mplayer -identify (#3919)
• ext.d: improve recognition of MS Office formats (#3929)
• Code cleanup (#3915)
• Cleanup hint files

Fixes

• Won't compile for Apple (#3930)
• "Cannot create target file" when target has backslash space in the name (#3923)
• Quiet single file overwrite (#3908)
• Show error message for each not-installed program when view documents in MS Word and Excel formats (#3926)
• Crash when trying some sftp connections (#3937)
• Crash when return to filemanager from subshell (#3943)