Midnight Commander 4.8.32

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Major changes since 4.8.31

Core

• Tell the current directory to the terminal using OSC 7 sequence (so it can open new tabs there) (#3088)
• Preserve ext2fs attributes on copy/move operations (#4532)
• Change name of temporary directory: make it unique for each run (#4535)
• Hide password in file operation progress dialog (#4541)
• Support reget in file move operation (#4563)
• Implement nanosecond precision timestamps on non-Linux (macOS, BSD, AIX, Solaris) (#4563)
• Remove remaining mmap code to simplify maintenance (#3960)

VFS

• extfs: support unrar-7 (#4518)

Editor

• Improve syntax highlighting:
  • C and C++ (MidnightCommander?/mc#195, #4556)

Viewer

Diff viewer

• Add man page mcdiff.1 (#4224)

Misc

• Code cleanup (#4524)
• New skins
  • xoria256-thin, xoria256root-thin (#4530)
  • modarcon16-defbg-thin, modarcon16-thin, modarcon16root-defbg-thin, modarcon16root-thin (#4530)
  • modarin256-defbg-thin, modarin256-thin, modarin256root-defbg-thin, modarin256root-thin (#4530)
  • julia256root (#4536)
• mc.ext.ini: clarify escaping of spaces and parenthesis (#4502)

Fixes

• External editor does not work with arguments in $EDITOR (#4533)
• fish shell: strings " cd (printf '%b' ... " in history (#4521)
• Redundant back slashes for autocomplete (#4292)
• subshell: call execl with argv[0] that is not an actual path to Bash (#4549)
• mcedit: php.syntax: comment highlight from start of light only (#4519)
• mcedit: wrong replacement using regular expressions with begin or end of line (#4525, #4526)
• mcedit: losing column position when navigating up/down (MidnightCommander?/mc#194)
• mcedit: macro deletes text (#4540)
• mcedit: macros are applied to the pasted text (#4562)
• extfs: iso9660: xorriso is slow to open an ISO image (#3570)
• extfs: u7z: wrong add of nested directories to archive (#4559)
• extfs: segfault on enter to deleted archive (#4560)
• tar: segfault on copy files from archive (#4561)
• man: typo (#4550)