Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of NEWS-4.7.0


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  • NEWS-4.7.0

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     1= Midnight Commander 4.7.0-pre4 = 
     2 
     3[http://www.midnight-commander.org/query?status=closed&group=resolution&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=owner&col=type&col=priority&col=component&col=version&col=severity&milestone=4.7.0 view all closed tickets for this release] 
     4 
     5== Changelog == 
     6 
     7Major changes since 4.6.2 
     8 
     9=== Core === 
     10 * Added feature of sort files by mouse click on column header 
     11 * Added keybindings to change files sort type via shortcuts (!PanelSelectSortOrder, !PanelToggleSortOrderPrev, !PanelToggleSortOrderNext, !PanelReverseSort, !PanelSortOrderByName, !PanelSortOrderByExt, !PanelSortOrderBySize, PanelSortOrderByMTime) 
     12 * Now the letter of sort type and sort direction is always drawn in panel header (direction of sort is drown near the current sort column in long file list mode only) 
     13 * Skin-files: added new parameters 'sort-sign-up' and 'sort-sign-down' in the section '[widget-common]' to draw sign of sort direction 
     14 * Added option 'extensions_case' in filehighlight.ini file. 
     15 * Menu engine was reimplemented: 1) now menu is build dynamically, 2) shortcut displayed in menu item is not a part of menu item text and it is synchronized  with keybinding defined in mc.keymap file (#1563). 
     16 * removed own popt stuff (command line options parser). Now used glib parser 
     17 * added feature for filenames highlighting in panels 
     18 * Copy/Move overwrite query dialog is more friendly for long file names 
     19 * at first run find file dialog now contain latest item from history 
     20 * charset support enabled by default (--enable-charset option)  
     21 * added support of skins 
     22 * added support of key bindings 
     23 * cycle menu navigation 
     24 * change behaviour of C-space, now it calculate size on "..", and for selected dirs if there is one. 
     25 * new find file option: find only first hit in file (make search faster) 
     26 * new find file option: Whole words - find whole words only 
     27 * scalable TUI 
     28 * Native UTF-8 support; 
     29 * Support for filename charset selection in panels; 
     30 * Reworked 'Find File' dialog; 
     31 * New unified search/replace engine with multiple search types: plain, wildcard, regexp and hex; 
     32 * Extended 'Learn Keys' capability; 
     33 * Locale-based codepage autodetection; 
     34 * Initial support for Doxygen generated docs; 
     35 * Build system updates (autoconf); 
     36 * Translation updates; 
     37 * Multiple x86_64 fixes. 
     38 
     39=== VFS === 
     40 * Fixed view *.tar files with a colon in name 
     41 * Allow 'exit' command on non-local filesystems 
     42 * Added partial support of Microsoft CAB-archives 
     43 * Added support of ico files 
     44 * Added support of *.djvu files 
     45 * Fix segfaults in various cases while browsing various VFSs (#1712) 
     46 * Fixed warnings when file copy inside archive. (#1729) 
     47 * fixed recognize of tar.xz archives 
     48 * added recognize of lzma archives by extention 
     49 * FTPFS: support of IPv6 protocol 
     50 * extfs/iso9660 updated to support Joliet "UCS level 1" 
     51 
     52=== Editor === 
     53 * Added scrolled percentage in status bar (only in "simple statusbar" mode) (#395) 
     54 * Fixed Misbehaving rectangular select in editor (wrong when selected from right to left and/or bottom to top) (#1553) 
     55 * Split editor menu 'Command' to 'Command' and 'Format' (#408) 
     56 * Added option 'Check POSIX new line' into 'Save mode...' dialog, add notification before save when no newline at EOF (#46) 
     57 * Added bindings ('!EditShiftBlockLeft', '!EditShiftBlockRight') for shift block (#1489) 
     58 * Fixed incorrect drawing CJK (double width) character. (#1628) 
     59 * 'Save as' dialog enhancement: select line break type: Windows/UNIX/Mac (CR LF/LF/CR) 
     60 * syntax hightlighting updated: VerilogHDL, Shell script 
     61 * Added syntax highlighting for *.repo files of  yum 
     62 * Added syntax highlighting of pacman's PKGBUILD and .install files 
     63 * new search/replace flag added "In selection".  
     64 * new hotkeys for bookmarks, now bookmark displayed in state line and editor 
     65 * new cursor behavior. Option "Cursor beyond end of line" - allow moving cursor beyond the end of line.  
     66 * new syntax hightlights added: erlang, ebuild, named, strace, j 
     67 * syntax hightlights updated: mail, vhdl, html 
     68 * Various editor enhancements (mark/move/copy/paste vertical blocks); 
     69 * Multiple syntax file updates; 
     70 * Source code navigation through ctags/etags TAGS files; 
     71 * New option: 'Persistent selection'; 
     72 * Delete/Backspace deletes selected block if 'Persistent selection' is off; 
     73 * Ability to shift blocks to the right with Tab key and to the left with Complete key if 'Persistent selection' is off; 
     74 * Show line numbers (optional); 
     75 * Highlighting of tabs and trailing spaces (optional); 
     76 * Added some hotkeys. 
     77 
     78=== Viewer === 
     79 * Fixed tabs alignment (#1664) 
     80 * Fixed view of next/prev file (#1750) 
     81 * Fixed showing Windows/Mac (CR LF/CR) line terminator (#1595) 
     82 * Reworked for improve perfomance 
     83 * Implemented interruptable long-distance movements 
     84 * splitted src/view.[ch] into many files in src/viewer/ subdir for more simple support of code 
     85 * fixed build of format string in runtime (for better i18n) 
     86 * add 'Whole words' option into the viewer 'Search' dialog 
     87 
     88=== Misc === 
     89 * Shared clipboard for the mc editor, form fields, panel and command prompt (#244) 
     90 * ''Refactoring'': now all filename constants are placed in src/fileloc.h file 
     91 * ''Testing & development'': added ability for change user config dir. For example, type {{{make CFLAGS='-DMC_USERCONF_DIR=\".mc2\"'}}} 
     92 * Changed Alt+Backspace behavior in command line (#256) 
     93 * hotlist: support for environment variables ($HOME, ~username, etc.) 
     94 * hotlist: support for completion in path input 
     95 * all list widgets: support for fast navigation by number keys (i.e. 1 - first list item, 2 - second)  
     96 * new option mouse_close_dialog, if mouse_close_dialog=1 click on outside the dialog close them 
     97 * new: SI-based size show 
     98 * make shared history for find file, editor search/replace, viever 
     99 * Show free space on current file system; 
     100 * Show size of selected files in mini-status bar. 
     101 
     102=== Fixes === 
     103 * Fixed broken building under uclibc <0.9.29 (#1726) 
     104 * Autoindent regression (#1669) 
     105 * Viewer Hex editor regression (#1675) 
     106 * Incorrect indentation block when selecting with F3 + keys (#1492) 
     107 * Fixed ownership of config files (#1617) 
     108 * Configure.ac: fix broken check of option '--disable-vfs-undelfs' (#1607) 
     109 * Learn keys: fixed incorrect save of keys configuration (#1532) 
     110 * Fixed bug with 'The shell is already running a command' (#213) 
     111 * Fixed 'B' artefact into !OpenSuse console of root user. 
     112 * segfault on incorrect color pair in [Color] section 
     113 * incorrect position of panel codeset dialog 
     114 * limit of 9 digits for of file size display 
     115 * lines drawing in -a stickchars mode (#1497) 
     116 * segfault when you try to use non-anonymous FTP 
     117 * Ctrl-O handling under GNU Screen in altscreen mode 
     118 * support of CP866 (IBM866) locale 
     119 * configure.ac: checking for minimal version of glib and exit if version less than 2.6 
     120 * segfault by mouse wheel action in history list and menu (#1564) 
     121 * Fixed behvior with Meta+PgDn in editor (#1598) 
     122 * Fixed behvior with cursor movement by Ctrl+arrows when cursor besides EOL (#1599) 
     123 * Fixed editor autocompleting 
     124 * Fixed Copy/Move dialogs steal Kill Word shortcut 
     125 * Fixed autoconf issue when configure with --with-gpm-mouse option (#1419) 
     126 * linking error with --enable-vfs-undelfs 
     127 * external editor won't open if there are spaces in EDITOR variable 
     128 * C-c kill mc if mc built with --without-subshell option is run with -d option 
     129 * directory hotlist rendering 
     130 * segfault on empty replace string 
     131 * fixes for vfs/tarfs 
     132 * removing bashizm from vfs/extfs/u7z 
     133 * crash mc on create new file (Shift-F4) in external editor 
     134 * File copy/move dialog: in replacement field now handled asterisks as search groups (#414) 
     135 * VFS: Fixed SIGSERV(or heap corruption) on large filenames 
     136 * Fixed broken backward search (#1496) 
     137 * Fixed uninitialised value for mouse event in in find.c#check_find_events() function 
     138 * Fixed ctrl+z signal handling. 
     139 * Fixed incorrect showing prompt 
     140 * Fixed incorrect vertical selection (if line state swiched on) 
     141 * Fixed screen resize handle if mouse support is disabled 
     142 * Restore correct current directory after switch from Info panel to List one 
     143 * Fixed mouse support in 'konsole-256color' terminal 
     144 * Fixed keycodes in 'xterm-256color' terminal 
     145 * Fixed incorrect regexp search by content in 'file find' dialog (#1543) 
     146 * Fixed incorrect backwards search (#1558) 
     147 * Fixed incorrect detection of compressed patchfs 
     148 * Fixed incorrect detecting codeset when <no translation> codeset selected. (#1529) 
     149 * Editor undo fixes; 
     150 * Upstreamed many fixes from the distributions; 
     151 * Fixed segfaults on fish permission checks; 
     152 * Fixed fish symlinks handling and fancy names escaping; 
     153 * Various mc.ext fixes; 
     154 * Command line completion fixes (mainly escaping); 
     155 * Small fixes in history handling (locale independent .mc/history entries); 
     156 * Code cleanups, various memleaks fixed (many thanks to valgrind). 
     157 
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