wiki:NEWS-4.7.0

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Midnight Commander 4.7.0

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Changelog

Major changes since 4.6.2

Core

  • Added feature of sort files by mouse click on column header
  • Added keybindings to change files sort type via shortcuts (PanelSelectSortOrder, PanelToggleSortOrderPrev, PanelToggleSortOrderNext, PanelReverseSort, PanelSortOrderByName, PanelSortOrderByExt, PanelSortOrderBySize, PanelSortOrderByMTime)
  • 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)
  • Skin-files: added new parameters 'sort-sign-up' and 'sort-sign-down' in the section '[widget-common]' to draw sign of sort direction
  • Added option 'extensions_case' in filehighlight.ini file.
  • 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).
  • removed own popt stuff (command line options parser). Now used glib parser
  • added feature for filenames highlighting in panels
  • Copy/Move? overwrite query dialog is more friendly for long file names
  • at first run find file dialog now contain latest item from history
  • charset support enabled by default (--enable-charset option)
  • added support of skins
  • added support of key bindings
  • cycle menu navigation
  • change behaviour of C-space, now it calculate size on "..", and for selected dirs if there is one.
  • new find file option: find only first hit in file (make search faster)
  • new find file option: Whole words - find whole words only
  • scalable TUI
  • Native UTF-8 support;
  • Support for filename charset selection in panels;
  • Reworked 'Find File' dialog;
  • New unified search/replace engine with multiple search types: plain, wildcard, regexp and hex;
  • Extended 'Learn Keys' capability;
  • Locale-based codepage autodetection;
  • Initial support for Doxygen generated docs;
  • Build system updates (autoconf);
  • Translation updates;
  • Multiple x86_64 fixes.

VFS

  • Fixed view *.tar files with a colon in name
  • Allow 'exit' command on non-local filesystems
  • Added partial support of Microsoft CAB-archives
  • Added support of ico files
  • Added support of *.djvu files
  • Fix segfaults in various cases while browsing various VFSs (#1712)
  • Fixed warnings when file copy inside archive. (#1729)
  • fixed recognize of tar.xz archives
  • added recognize of lzma archives by extention
  • FTPFS: support of IPv6 protocol
  • extfs/iso9660 updated to support Joliet "UCS level 1"

Editor

  • Added scrolled percentage in status bar (only in "simple statusbar" mode) (#395)
  • Fixed Misbehaving rectangular select in editor (wrong when selected from right to left and/or bottom to top) (#1553)
  • Split editor menu 'Command' to 'Command' and 'Format' (#408)
  • Added option 'Check POSIX new line' into 'Save mode...' dialog, add notification before save when no newline at EOF (#46)
  • Added bindings ('EditShiftBlockLeft', 'EditShiftBlockRight') for shift block (#1489)
  • Fixed incorrect drawing CJK (double width) character. (#1628)
  • 'Save as' dialog enhancement: select line break type: Windows/UNIX/Mac (CR LF/LF/CR)
  • syntax hightlighting updated: VerilogHDL, Shell script
  • Added syntax highlighting for *.repo files of yum
  • Added syntax highlighting of pacman's PKGBUILD and .install files
  • new search/replace flag added "In selection".
  • new hotkeys for bookmarks, now bookmark displayed in state line and editor
  • new cursor behavior. Option "Cursor beyond end of line" - allow moving cursor beyond the end of line.
  • new syntax hightlights added: erlang, ebuild, named, strace, j
  • syntax hightlights updated: mail, vhdl, html
  • Various editor enhancements (mark/move/copy/paste vertical blocks);
  • Multiple syntax file updates;
  • Source code navigation through ctags/etags TAGS files;
  • New option: 'Persistent selection';
  • Delete/Backspace? deletes selected block if 'Persistent selection' is off;
  • Ability to shift blocks to the right with Tab key and to the left with Complete key if 'Persistent selection' is off;
  • Show line numbers (optional);
  • Highlighting of tabs and trailing spaces (optional);
  • Added some hotkeys.

Viewer

  • Fixed tabs alignment (#1664)
  • Fixed view of next/prev file (#1750)
  • Fixed showing Windows/Mac? (CR LF/CR) line terminator (#1595)
  • Reworked for improve perfomance
  • Implemented interruptable long-distance movements
  • splitted src/view.[ch] into many files in src/viewer/ subdir for more simple support of code
  • fixed build of format string in runtime (for better i18n)
  • add 'Whole words' option into the viewer 'Search' dialog

Misc

  • Shared clipboard for the mc editor, form fields, panel and command prompt (#244)
  • Refactoring: now all filename constants are placed in src/fileloc.h file
  • Testing & development: added ability for change user config dir. For example, type make CFLAGS='-DMC_USERCONF_DIR=\".mc2\"'
  • Changed Alt+Backspace behavior in command line (#256)
  • hotlist: support for environment variables ($HOME, ~username, etc.)
  • hotlist: support for completion in path input
  • all list widgets: support for fast navigation by number keys (i.e. 1 - first list item, 2 - second)
  • new option mouse_close_dialog, if mouse_close_dialog=1 click on outside the dialog close them
  • new: SI-based size show
  • make shared history for find file, editor search/replace, viever
  • Show free space on current file system;
  • Show size of selected files in mini-status bar.

Fixes

  • Fixed broken building under uclibc <0.9.29 (#1726)
  • Autoindent regression (#1669)
  • Viewer Hex editor regression (#1675)
  • Incorrect indentation block when selecting with F3 + keys (#1492)
  • Fixed ownership of config files (#1617)
  • Configure.ac: fix broken check of option '--disable-vfs-undelfs' (#1607)
  • Learn keys: fixed incorrect save of keys configuration (#1532)
  • Fixed bug with 'The shell is already running a command' (#213)
  • Fixed 'B' artefact into OpenSuse console of root user.
  • segfault on incorrect color pair in [Color] section
  • incorrect position of panel codeset dialog
  • limit of 9 digits for of file size display
  • lines drawing in -a stickchars mode (#1497)
  • segfault when you try to use non-anonymous FTP
  • Ctrl-O handling under GNU Screen in altscreen mode
  • support of CP866 (IBM866) locale
  • configure.ac: checking for minimal version of glib and exit if version less than 2.6
  • segfault by mouse wheel action in history list and menu (#1564)
  • Fixed behvior with Meta+PgDn? in editor (#1598)
  • Fixed behvior with cursor movement by Ctrl+arrows when cursor besides EOL (#1599)
  • Fixed editor autocompleting
  • Fixed Copy/Move? dialogs steal Kill Word shortcut
  • Fixed autoconf issue when configure with --with-gpm-mouse option (#1419)
  • linking error with --enable-vfs-undelfs
  • external editor won't open if there are spaces in EDITOR variable
  • C-c kill mc if mc built with --without-subshell option is run with -d option
  • directory hotlist rendering
  • segfault on empty replace string
  • fixes for vfs/tarfs
  • removing bashizm from vfs/extfs/u7z
  • crash mc on create new file (Shift-F4) in external editor
  • File copy/move dialog: in replacement field now handled asterisks as search groups (#414)
  • VFS: Fixed SIGSERV(or heap corruption) on large filenames
  • Fixed broken backward search (#1496)
  • Fixed uninitialised value for mouse event in in find.c#check_find_events() function
  • Fixed ctrl+z signal handling.
  • Fixed incorrect showing prompt
  • Fixed incorrect vertical selection (if line state swiched on)
  • Fixed screen resize handle if mouse support is disabled
  • Restore correct current directory after switch from Info panel to List one
  • Fixed mouse support in 'konsole-256color' terminal
  • Fixed keycodes in 'xterm-256color' terminal
  • Fixed incorrect regexp search by content in 'file find' dialog (#1543)
  • Fixed incorrect backwards search (#1558)
  • Fixed incorrect detection of compressed patchfs
  • Fixed incorrect detecting codeset when <no translation> codeset selected. (#1529)
  • Editor undo fixes;
  • Upstreamed many fixes from the distributions;
  • Fixed segfaults on fish permission checks;
  • Fixed fish symlinks handling and fancy names escaping;
  • Various mc.ext fixes;
  • Command line completion fixes (mainly escaping);
  • Small fixes in history handling (locale independent .mc/history entries);
  • Code cleanups, various memleaks fixed (many thanks to valgrind).