Midnight Commander 4.8.24

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Major changes since 4.8.23

Core

• Drop bundled gettext (#3629)
• Implement the file edit and view history. Default shortcut is alt-shift-e (#2733)
• Enable subshell in standalone mceditor, mcviewer, and mcdiffviewer (#3380)
• Refactoring of SIGWINCH handling (#117, #4019)
• Prevent run/open files with double right click (#4016)
• Improve support of Windows 1251 encoding on Solaris (#3992)
• Support binary reproducible builds (via --disable-configure-args configure option) (#4031)

VFS

• sftpfs: support keyborad interactive authentication (#3921)
• uc1541 extfs: update up to 3.3 version (#3936)

Editor

• Syntax:
  • add yabasic (Yet Another BASIC) syntax highlighting (#4005)
  • improve YAML syntax highlighting (#4010)
  • add "​https://" to Debian sources.list syntax (#4018)
  • add .desktop files (#4022)
  • improve RPM spec file syntax highlighting (#4037)
  • improve Debian sources.list syntax highlighting (#4041)

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

• Code cleanup (#3997, #4030, #4038, #4039)
• menu.mc: handle symbolic links to compressed archives (#4009)
• File highlighting updates (#4015)
  • part - partial files, e.g. used by many download managers ([temp])
  • apk - Android packages, deb - Debian packages ([archive])
  • ts - MPEG-TS streams ([media])
• New skins:
  • julia256: a dark skin with calm colors and good contrast.

Fixes

• Compile failure on AIX 7.2 (#4033)
• Compile failure on OS X 10.9 (#4035)
• Enter key works as Down one in menu (#4006)
• Menubar: incorrect mouse click coordinate (#4013)
• Rotating dash generates way too much output (#3859)
• Totals aren't computed before move of a single directory (#4027)
• Improper use of IEC and SI prefixes for size (#3666)
• Editor: unusable dynamic paragraphing (#3996)
• VFS: iso9660 does not report listing errors (#3993)
• VFS: extfs: nested archives are not removed from temporary directory (#4000)