Midnight Commander 4.8.29

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Major changes since 4.8.28

Core

• Add more options for panel filter (#1373):
  • "Files only" (#4209)
  • "Case sensitive" (#4334)
  • "Using shell patterns"
• Restore menu accelerator for "Sort order": back to "S"; change menu accelerator for "SFTP link" to "N" (#4373)
• Implement multi-line search in regex mode using '\n' character (#400)
• Add support for cross-compilation with PERL path different between --build and --host (#4399)

VFS

Editor

• Improvements of syntax highlighting:
  • YAML: improve multiline blocks highliting (#4059)
• New syntax highlighting:
  • Privoxy (​https://www.privoxy.org) actions files (#4384)

Viewer

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Misc

• Code cleanup (#4357, #4397)
• sqlite3 view: use 'immutable=1' URI parameter to prevent leaving wal/shm files after viewing sqlite database (#4369)
• Support of contour terminal emulator (​https://github.com/contour-terminal/contour) (#4396)
• Filehighlight:

Fixes

• Crash on quick view of archives (#4398)
• Wrong version sort (#4374)
• Filter keyboard shortcut only affects left panel (#4383)
• File type check does not work with special character in filename (#4377)
• Select files keeping the right mouse button pressed doesn't select all files (#4381)
• Cannot scroll panel listing upwards using mouse (#4119)
• mcedit: infinite loop when deleting a macro (#4391)
• FISH subshell: commands don't work after window resize (#4372)
• FTP VFS: doesn't reconnect to server after timeout (#3670)
• Tests: variable redeclaration in filevercmp_test5 (#4358)