Midnight Commander 4.8.5

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Major changes since 4.8.4

Core

• Implemented case-insensitive patterns in mc.ext bindings (#2250)

VFS

Editor

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

• Syntax highlighting news and updates:
  • update assembler.syntax: x86 AMD64 registers highlighting (#2542)
  • new cmake.syntax: preliminary and incomplete syntax file for CMakeLists.txt files (#2084)
  • new dlink.syntax: syntax highlighting for D-Link switches command set (#2649)
  • update properties.syntax: more nice look-and-feel (#1869)
• mc.ext enhancement (#2103):
  • use chm_http text-mode handler for CHM files,
  • play sounds only from videos in text mode,
  • use pdftotext -layout -nopgbrk switches,
  • try to use elinks before links for HTML,
  • soffice2html text-mode handler for SXW files,
  • wvHtml text-mode handler for doc files,
  • xlhtml text-mode handler for XLS files,
  • ppthtml text-mode handler for PPT/PPS files,
  • open=view+pager fallback (noX) for PostScript?, PDF, OD[PST] and DVI,
  • standarized $DISPLAY checks,
• File extension support: SQLite database files (#2103) compiled Java files (*.class) (#2103)

Fixes

• mcedit segfault after call "Back from declaration" (#2859)
• Bad EXTHELPERSDIR substitution if --prefix is not set (#2849)
• Partially broken loading of user-defined keymap file (#2848)
• Cannot view compressed files named like log.1.gz (with digit in name) (#2852)
• Panel is not refreshed if panel history is called using mouse (#2854)
• Standalone mcedit doesn't load saved file position (#2853)
• mcedit segfaults when aspell (en) dictionary is not installed (#2856)
• Segfault when viewing HTML files with "mc -v" (#2858)
• Broken 'Enter' action on a rpm file containing space character in filename (#2838)
• Duplicate entities in panel with 'tree view' mode (#2835)