= Midnight Commander 4.8.0 =

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'''WARNING''': Configuration files was moved from your $HOME/.mc directory into XDG_CONFIG_* directories to respect [http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.7.html 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 [wiki:doc/keybindMigration] web page.

'''WARNING''': if you have trouble with open of archives and etc, do follow: 
{{{
grep 'Open=%cd' ~/.local/share/mc/mc.ext | head 
}}}
If output contains
{{{ 
Open=%cd %p#ucab
Open=%cd %p#uha
Open=%cd %p#urar
}}}
try convert your old binding file
{{{
sed 's|\(Open.*\)#\(.*\)$|\1/\2://|' bindings  > mc.ext
}}}
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:
    * support relative ignored directories (#2275);
    * handle of ignored directories in dialog window (#2275);
    * "Search for content" checkbox is enabled by default (#2462)
  * 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)
  * Added -g/--oldmouse option to support of NORMAL/BUTTON_EVENT mouse type (useful for screen/tmux) (#2601)

=== 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)
  * New extfs plugin: gitfs (#2467)
  * patchfs enchancement: join several hunks of the same file into one VFS entry (#2573)

=== 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:
    * .torrent: view using ctorrent (#2562);
    * .mts: handle as videofile (#2566)
    * .3gp - video (#2583)
  * Added new entries in cedit.menu: "Sort selection", "Upper case", "Lower case"
  * New skins:
    * Xoria256 (#2469)
    * mc-4.6 (#2524)
  * Updated skins:
    * Nice dark (#1791)
  * Added support for [http://check.sourceforge.net 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
    * Interlingua
  * Code cleanup (#2481, #2515, #2518, #2560, #2570, #2620)
  * mc.ext: use "include" for $EDITOR entries (#1689)
  * License version updated to GPL3+ (#1551)

=== 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)
  * Bold and selected colors of viewer cannot be set in the command line (#2489)
  * Cannot compile on Solaris (#2587)
  * Recent autoconf displays warnings about missing AC_LANG_SOURCE (#2589)
  * Duplication of variable declarations (#2576)
  * Incorrect TTY layer initialization (#2601)
  * Wrong Backspace key behavior in !QuickSearch mode if BS key is mapped to !CdParentSmart action (#2522)
  * M-o works unexpectedly on symlink shortcuts (#2590)
  * Panelize doesn't honour current sorting (#2175)
  * Hintbar jumps to the top of the screen and overwrites main menu (#2593)
  * File size column is bogus for widths above 9 (#2580)
  * Hex search: incorrect length usage in hexadecimal search (#2579)
  * Editor: Incorrect Pascal syntax highlighting (#2531)
  * Editor: mouse clicks are ignored on the bottom line (#2591)
  * 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)
  * Viewer: Fixed search finds bold/underlined strings twice and highlight search results (#265)
  * Viewer: cursor position is not restored in hex mode (#2543)
  * 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)
  * Broken listing in ExtFS VFS module (#81)
  * File name length is limited in tar archive (#2201)
  * FISH hangs while copiyng a lot of small files (#2605)
  * FISH: broken panels drawing after entering password (#2611)
  * FISH: content of modified file is appended instead of overwritten in the remote host (#2632)
  * extfs: strange error message when opening a 7z file if p7zip is not installed (#2598)