Midnight Commander 4.7.3

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Major changes since 4.7.2

Core

• Mult-screen feature: support of many opened editors and viewers (#1490)
• Reorganization of menu and configuration dialogs. More options are available in UI (#320)
• Mark of text in input fields is available now, DEL removes selected/unchanged text (#2161, #2228)
• Now copy/move dialog shows the full path with file name in the field "to:" (#1907)
• Removed hardcoded shortcuts in dialog.c (#212)
• Added new actions for panels: PanelMarkFileUp and PanelMarkFileDown (#2021)
• Added new capability to create relative symlinks: menu item and "C-x v" default shortcut (#2042)
• Now we can use external utility to copy/paste text to X clipboard (#30)
• Cursor is hidden in menu and listboxes (#1771)
• All hotkeys in MC (in menu, checkboxes, etc) in the middle of a word are in the lowercase now (#2168)
• Use system realpath(3) function if available (#1911)
• GLib deprecated functions are not used (#2085, #2249)

VFS

• Unified charset list is used in core and in VFS (#2203)
• All hardcoded FISH scripts are moved out from fish.c to external scripts (see README.fish for more info) (#2242)

Editor

• Added highlighting for HTTPS URLs in SPEC files (#1446)

Misc

• Changed main URL for bug reports (#2025)
• man2hlp: completely rewritten in Perl (#45)
• Skin updates:
  • gotar.ini (#2179)
• Removed leading and trailing spaces in i18n'd resources (#1646)
• Code cleanups (#2243)
• Translation updates

Fixes

• AC_TRY_RUN macro breaks crosscompile (#1959)
• "mc -e" and "mc -v" modes don't work (#2187)
• Buttonbar mouse clicks are off (#2199)
• Incorrect calculation of autocompletion window width (#2192)
• Incorrect button locations in common input dialogs (#2115)
• Oversized dialog backgrounds are not painted in NCurses-based MC (#2157)
• Incorrect colors of directory tree (#2212)
• Info panel is initially filled too late (#2226)
• Quick search is not correctly interrupted in some cases (#2174)
• Segfault in standalone editor and viewer (#2178)
• Broken codeset autodetection in editor and viewer (#1838)
• Viewer segfaults trying open a compressed man page file (#2236)
• Edit crashes while opening some incorrect files (#2183)
• Editor hangup if editor_tab_spacing equals to 0 (#2196)
• Editor shows dots instead of letters if source_codepage is set to "No translation" (#2248)
• Editor goes to endless loop when trying to replace the \n regexp with any substring (#2231)
• Editor: in some cases the copy/move operation in multi-byte text is wrong (#2153)
• Crash on search in viewer after Parsed/Raw? switching (#2195)
• Diff viewer crashes if tab size equals to 0 (#2182)