Midnight Commander 4.8.8

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Major changes since 4.8.7

Core

• Make copy/move progress dialog window wider up to 2/3 of screen width (#2076)
• Ask file name before create new file in editor (#2585)
• Support newer extended mouse protocol SGR-1006 instead of URXVT-1015 (#2956)
• Allow skip directory scanning before file operation. Print directory count and size in addition to directory name (#2101)
• Add jump support to target line in some external editors and viewers (#2206)

VFS

Editor

• Update syntax highlighting:
  • Jal programming language (#2855)
  • gplink configuration files (.lkr extension) (#2855)
  • Makefile with .mak extension (#2896)
  • ZSH configuration files (#2950)
  • Fortran (#2962)

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

• Code cleanup (#2944, #2954)
• Report real compiler in MC_CHECK_ONE_CFLAG instead of 'gcc'
• Hints files now translated via Transifex (#2980)

Fixes

• Segfault in file operation due to unhandled regexp error (#2493)
• Tab completion vs. spaces and escaping (#55)\
• Special chars are not escaped in autocompletion of filenames (#2626)
• Buttons in the 'Directory hotlist' window are placed incorrectly (#2958)
• Mouse doesn't select text in subshell in native console (#2964)
• Mouse click below non-droppeddown menubar activates menu box (#2971)
• Insufficient quoting and wrong message in user menu (#2947)
• mcedit: floating point exception (division by zero) (#2953)
• mcedit: broken autocompletion (#2957)
• mcview: broken magic mode (#2976)
• Broken opening of .war archives (#2974)