Midnight Commander 4.8.34

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Major changes since 4.8.33

Core

• Remove PCRE and PCRE2 search engines (#4655)
• Migrate formatter from indent to clang-format (#4592)
• Clarify build with NCurses (#3628):
  • remove --with-screen=ncursesw
  • ncursesw is preferred over ncurses
  • search order: system path (--with-ncurses-libdir, --with-ncurses-includedir), than pkg-config

VFS

• Support for SquashFS in extfs (#3147)

Editor

• Update RPM SPEC file syntax highlighting (#4638)
• Add new syntax highlighting rules:
  • APKBUILD (Alpine package build script) (#4637)
  • Mutt config files (#4645)
  • Turtle RDF (#4644)
• Highlight meson_options.txt as meson.build (#4660)

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Misc

Fixes

• mc doesn't fully resize itself if reading directory while terminal's resized (#4630)
• Clicking on the panel sort order indicator resets ordering by first column (#4647)
• Fails to read directory if resized while external editor was running (#4636)
• Segfault when dragging mouse in half-empty panel (#4651)
• mcedit: segfault after pressing Shift+F4 (#4650)
• mcedit: wrong jumping to the bottom of screen in non-fullscreen mode(#4652)
• mcedit: anchored regex line matching inconsistencies (#4072)
• vfs: buffer overflow in vfs_parse_ls_lga (#4642)