Midnight Commander 4.7.5-pre1

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Major changes since 4.7.4

Core

• Case insensitive sort order of files does not mix dot-files with others (#1894)
• Repeat previous quicksearch on C-s C-s (without entering text) (#2365)
• Added new colors for dialogs and status bars (#2170, #2171, #2197)
• Added new action PanelSmartGotoParentDir. Not defined by default. This keybinding maybe used for bind 'Backspace' as hotkey for 'cd ..' (only if command line is empty)(#2375)

VFS

• Hide panels before connect to the FISH (#2268)

Editor

• Internal editor's bookmarks are persistent now and not lost after exit from the editor. They are saved in ~/.mc/filepos file (#2287)
• Added forgotten shortcuts from 4.6 branch (#2404)
• Added cython syntax highlighting (#2427)

Viewer

• Speed up of up/down moving (#2229)

Diff viewer

• The shortcut was changed from 'ctrl-x, ctrl-y' to 'ctrl-x, ctrl-d' (#2177)

Misc

• Changed installation destination for some files (#1424):
  • /etc/mc/Syntax -> /usr/share/mc/syntax/Syntax;
  • /etc/mc/mc.lib -> /usr/share/mc/mc.lib;
  • /etc/mc/mc.charsets -> /usr/share/mc/mc.charsets. Added capability to load codepage list from /usr/share/mc/mc.charsets and /etc/mc/mc.charsets and merge them then;
  • Hint files are installed into /usr/share/mc/hints instead of /usr/share/mc;
  • Help files are installed into /usr/share/mc/help instead of /usr/share/mc.
• Massive reorganizing of source code tree and total indentation in according with mc policy (#2409)
• Doc updates
• Translation updates
• Added new translations: Basque, Estonian, Georgian, Indonesian
• autotools: Extended list of GCC warning flags (#2409)
• autotools: Split GLib and GModule compiler and linker options (#2409)
• Added dark skin

Fixes

• Hang up after exit on FreeBSD (#2333, #2415)
• Segfault on NetBSD >= 3.0 on startup (#2425)
• Multi-screen engine doesn't handle correctly some cases (#1490)
• Overflow of file operation counters (#2429)
• Fx key numbers were not displayed for disabled keys (#2350)
• Can't put char '?' into a new name (#2327)
• Incorrect initial value of WCheck and WRadio widgets width (#2362)
• Panel encoding is not shown correctly in "Choose codepage" dialog (#1512)
• Cannot change panel encoding without VFS support (#2137)
• Panel contents isn't scrolled down by mouse dragging (#2395)
• Panel states are saved in panels.ini at quit only if "Auto save panels setup" option is set (#1939)
• Incorrect key event handling in "Listing mode" dialog (#2045)
• Usability of field history in "Find file" dialog (#2046, #2407)
• Find "Whole words" search bug (#2396)
• Directory ignorance does't work in file find (#2366, #2434)
• Incorrect line jump when started as editor (#2344)
• User menu in standalone mcedit doesn't show filetype-specific items (#1651)
• Configure script doesn't set samba configdir (#2419)
• Lost transparency colors in mcedit [editnormal] background depends on [normal] (#1785)
• Syntax highlighting is lost after manual change (#2324)
• ~ is not treated properly in editor's "Save As" dialog (#2398)
• Broken action 'cursor beyond EOL' (#2135, #2411)
• Incorrect charset encoding in search in editor (#2417)
• Segmentation fault in mcviewer on ARM architecture (#2356)
• Viewer 'Goto' dialog doesn't allow go to the specified offset exactly (#2435)
• Broken IPv4 FTP connection scheme (#121)
• Default internal FISH scripts are broken (#2347)
• Permission denied while connecting to Sun host via ssh (#2031)