Midnight Commander 4.8.23

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Major changes since 4.8.22

Core

• Modify "File exists" query dialog (#3935):
  • change layout
  • rename "Update" button to "If older"
  • add new "If smaller" button": overwrite file with smaller one
  • add "Don't overwrite with zero length file" checkbox
• Speed up of large directory structures delete (#3958)
• Support key binding for menu (#212)

VFS

Editor

• Expanded syntax highlighting rules (#3975):
  • expanded file name regexp for sh.syntax
  • use ini.syntax for systemd cofiguration files
• Syntax updates:
  • shell (#3981)
  • ebuild (#3988)
  • RPM spec (#3991)

Viewer

• Quick one-off backwards search with N. New action SearchOppositeContinue for key bind (default is shift-n) (#3452)

Diff viewer

Misc

• Code cleanup (#3955)
• Use Geeqie (a fork of GQview) as main image viewer, fallback to GQview (#3962)
• File highlighting updates (#3966)
  • .go, .s: highlight as source
  • .m4v: highlighting as media
• New skins:
  • featured-plus: featured skin with alternative directory and file select/mark colors (#3973)

Fixes

• Compilation fail on AIX (#3960)
• Incorrect file version sort (#3965, #3905)
• Garbage in the hardlink error creation message window (#3990)
• Cannot shell, or FTP, or SFTP link when the file panel is tree, or info, or quick view (#3948)
• Failed gpm connect attempt ... for vc /dev/tty0 (#3208, #3614)
• Incorrect include/editor order in mc.ext (#3965)
• mcedit: incorrect C/C++ syntax highlighting in some cases (#3487)
• Unknown type name 'sighandler_t' on Illumos (#3971)