Midnight Commander 4.8.27

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Major changes since 4.8.26

Core

• Minimal version of Automake is 1.12 (#3986)
• Drop automatic migration of configuration from ~/.mc to XDG-based directories (#3682)
• zsh: support custom configuration file: ~/.local/share/mc/.zshrc (#4203)
• "Find File": add "Follow symlinks" option (#2020)

VFS

• extfs: support unrar-6 (#4154)
• ftpfs: apply file list parser from lftp project (#2841, #3174)

Editor

• Word completion: get candidates from all open files (#4160)
• etags: get rid of hardcoded list length and window width (#4132)
• Update syntax files:
  • python (#4140)
• Add syntax highlighting:
  • Verilog and SystemVerilog? header files (#4215)

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Misc

• Code clean up (#4179, #4173)
• Filehighlight of c++ and h++ files as sources (#4194)
• mc.ext: support fb2 e-books (#4167)
• ext.d: use mediainfo to view info about various media files (#4167)

Fixes

• FTBFS against NCurses on OS X 10.9.5 (#4181)
• Crash if shadow is out of screen (build against NCurses) (#4192)
• If command line is invisible it's partially displayed (#4182)
• Broken handling of zip archives (#4180, #4183)
• mcedit: silent macro makes terminal disrupted (#4171)
• mcedit: disrupting of TAGS file path (#4207)
• Improper use of IEC and SI prefixes for size (#3666)
• vfs: unable to browse compressed tar archives (#4191)
• Tests: log files are written by libcheck and automake simultaneously (#3986)