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Midnight Commander 4.8.0-pre1
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WARNING: Configuration files was moved from your $HOME/.mc directory into XDG_CONFIG_* directories to respect FDO standard. To get more information, see ticket #1851.
WARNING: VFS paths now handled as vfsprefix1://vfsdata/vfsprefix2://vfsdata (see #2361). Also, 'bindings' user file was renamed to 'mc.ext', so you need search in this file all
Open=file.ext#vfsprefix
and replace them to
Open=file.ext/vfsprefix://
After this you should rename your 'bindings' file to 'mc.ext'
Old-style paths are handled just in 'Directory hotlist' dialog, but you couldn't mix URL-like and old style path elements in one path string.
Support of old-style paths will be removed in next major release (probably in 4.9, who knows...)
WARNING: keybinding names was renamed to provide some unification (see #2511). The correspondence of old and new keybinging names are described in doc/keybind-migration.txt file and in doc/keybindMigration web page.
Be aware.
Major changes since 4.7.5
Core
- Added 256 colours support (#2169, #2173, #2475)
- Changed default text in filtered view (alt-!) to input command line (if not empty) or stay old behaviour (current file under cursor) (#2266)
- Added simple swap mode that means the swap of panel locations, in addition to current swap of panel content (#2368)
- Сonfiguration files now moved to directory specified in XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable (#1851)
- Panel options are read now from [Panels] section only. [Midnight-Commander] section is not read (#2305)
- "Show mini info" checkbox was moved from the "Layout" dialog window to the "Panel options" one (#2305)
- Select files by shift-left/right in file panel (#2534)
- Added support of skip all errors on multi-file/dir operation (#71)
- 'Find Files' improvements:
- Added hardlinks detection for filehighlight (#2478)
- Unification of keybind names (#2511):
- most of keybinding names are changes to unify that names. Table of old and new names is available in doc/keybind-migration.txt;
- improve of key rebinding: previously, to rebind some keys, used must redefine the entire section where that bindings are placed in user keymap file. New merge algorithm doesn't require that and allows rebind only wanted keys;
- added --nokeymap command line option to disable external keymaps
- Sources in 'lib' directory now independent to sources in 'src' one (#2501)
- Added configure parameter --enable-mclib for build libmc.so shared library (#2501)
- Added new engine for universal event system (as part of #2501)
- Optimized loading and saving of configurations and histories (#2541, #2545)
- Reimplemented i18n support in 'Chmod' dialog window (#2557)
VFS
- VFS structure changes (as part of #2501):
- moved from lib/vfs/mc-vfs to lib/vfs;
- split VFS-modules by directories and moved to src/vfs;
- lib/vfs/vfs-impl.h was merged into lib/vfs/vfs.h
- VFS now used URL-like paths (#2361)
Editor
- New engine of the editor macro (#323)
- Multiply repeat of the recorded actions (#323)
- Call extermal scripts from the editor (#323, #2512)
- Added REDO action (#25)
- Group UNDO by action (#27)
- Selection is not reset after execute user menu (#2463)
- Vertical selection is not reset after copy/move (#2504)
- More intuitive word left/right action (now the cursor stop beside EOL/BOL) (#2483)
- Duble-click marks the current word. Added action MarkWord to mark word, MarkLine to mark current line (#2499)
- Regexp search&replace: support escape sequences in replacement string (#1882)
Misc
- Minor enhancement in mc.ext:
- added -C key to nm utility in View action for static libraries (#2485)
- New file bindings:
- Added new entries in cedit.menu: "Sort selection", "Upper case", "Lower case"
- New skins:
- Updated skins:
- Nice dark (#1791)
- Added support for check unit test framework (as part of #2501)
- Added -F/--datadir-info option to show extended information about used data dirs (#2495)
- Added --configure-options to easy update & reconfigure existing mc (#2495)
- Language-specific man pages and hint and help files are not installed if mc is built with --disable-nls option (#2514)
- Added new translation:
- Esperanto
- Code cleanup (#2481, #2515, #2518, #2560, #2570)
Fixes
- Build failure on DragonFly BSD (#2516)
- Broken Del & Backspace in dialogs (in locale CP866) (#1634)
- Screen and input corruption under xterm in non-UTF locales (#1668)
- Alt-Backspace shortcut doesn't work (#2455)
- Broken command autocompletion (#2458)
- Swap panels doesn't respect sort options (#2368)
- File list format of panel is initialized incorrectly after switch back from quick view or info mode to file list one (#2390)
- Main menu is not drawn correctly after change of it visibility and activity (#2466)
- MC switches to left panel after call of command history using mouse (#2459)
- Find file: don't check content regexp if search for content is not used (#2464)
- Find file: broken lynx-like navigation in panelization of search result (#2491)
- Dialog trims leading spaces in input field (#2544)
- Panelize content is lost when doing F5/F6/F8 on a file on the other panel (#2312)
- Color of panel header cannot be set in the command line (#2170)
- ctrl-g key closes file panels (#2520)
- Incorrect files mark by mouse (#2556)
- Editor: incorrect restore selection after UNDO (#2456)
- Editor: segfault after getting the previous char in utf8 (#2484)
- Editor: incorrect detection of the word boundary (added '{', '}' as end of word) (#2500)
- Bold and selected colors of viewer cannot be set in the command line (#2489)
- Viewer: fixed incorrect starting offset for 'search again' (#2294)
- Viewer: fixed problems while displaying UTF-8 manual pages (#1629)
- Diff viewer: quick left/right movements don't work in non-default key maps (#2509)
- AI_ADDRCONFIG is not optional for RFC 3493 non-compliant systems (#2401)
- FTP directories containing @ result severe security risks (eg. deletion of homedir) (#2220)
- Builtin ftp client can't download files with apostrophe in a file name (#2251)
- Unable to show FTP listing if password contains # (#2360)
- FTP: fixed access to file names starting with space (#81)
- Bashisms in extfs (#2569)
- Browsing *.deb files is broken with latest Perl (#2552)
- isoinfo adds ";1" to the end of file name when Joliet without Rock Ridge is used (#2471)
- patchfs incorrectly works with filenames containing spaces (#2572)
- cd to ~ processed incorrectly in the command line if more than one space is separating the "cd" and "~" (#2120)
