mc-4.8.24

[Douglas R. Reno]

New point version

[Douglas R. Reno]

Duplicate of #13042

[Bruce Dubbs]

Version 4.8.24

• Core

• Drop bundled gettext
• Implement the file edit and view history. Default shortcut is alt-shift-e
• Enable subshell in standalone mceditor, mcviewer, and mcdiffviewer
• Refactoring of SIGWINCH handling
• Prevent run/open files with double right click
• Improve support of Windows 1251 encoding on Solaris
• Support binary reproducible builds

• VFS

• sftpfs: support keyborad interactive authentication
• uc1541 extfs: update up to 3.3 version

• Editor

• Syntax:
  • add yabasic
  • improve YAML syntax highlighting
  • add "​https://" to Debian sources.list syntax
  • add .desktop files
  • improve RPM spec file syntax highlighting
  • improve Debian sources.list syntax highlighting

• Misc

• Code cleanup
• menu.mc: handle symbolic links to compressed archives
• File highlighting updates
  • part - partial files, e.g. used by many download managers
  • apk - Android packages, deb - Debian packages
  • ts - MPEG-TS streams
• New skins:
  • julia256: a dark skin with calm colors and good contrast.

• Fixes

• Compile failure on AIX 7.2
• Compile failure on OS X 10.9
• Enter key works as Down one in menu
• Menubar: incorrect mouse click coordinate
• Rotating dash generates way too much output
• Totals aren't computed before move of a single directory
• Editor: unusable dynamic paragraphing
• VFS: iso9660 does not report listing errors
• VFS: extfs: nested archives are not removed from temporary directory

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 22588.