Midnight Commander 4.8.4

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Major changes since 4.8.3

Core

• Use xdg-open by default in mc.ext.in if present to open files, fallback on current scheme otherwise (#2118)
• Improve of mouse event handling in dialogs (#2817)

VFS

Editor

Viewer

• Handle CK_FileNext/CK_FilePrev inside mcviewer (#2814)

Diff viewer

Misc

• File extension support:
  • .gem - rubygems (#2797)
  • .cpio.xz - compressed cpio archives (#2798)
  • .webm - WebM video (#2746)

Fixes

• Build failure on FreeBSD 6 (#2808)
• Crash at Chown command (#2784)
• Crash when creating relative symlink (#2787)
• Misinterpretation of dirs as command line arguments (#2783, #2805)
• Number of panelized files was limited to 127 (#2813)
• Can't find 00 (zeroes) in patterns in hex search (#2795)
• Error message when entering into compressed tar and cpio archives (#2785)
• Garbage directory listing in ftpfs (#2800)
• Incomplete sand256 skin (#2807)
• mcedit scripts are installed as data files (#1437)
• Fails to build from source with --enable-tests (#2786)