mc-4.8.25

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Version 4.8.25

• Core

• Minimal version of GLib is 2.30.0
• Avoid subshell warning for standalone mcedit/mcview/mcdiffview run from mc
• Implement chattr command (change ext{2,3,4}fs extended attributes). Default shortcut is "C-x e"
• Implement a WGroup widget -- a base class for widgets which contain other widgets
• Implement key bindings for radiobuttons

• VFS

• RPM VFS improvements:
  • Support weak dependency tags: ENHANCES, SUGGESTS, RECOMMENDS, SUPPLEMENTS

• Editor

• Improvements of syntax highlighting:
  • php
  • tcl: add shebangs with wish and tclsh
  • Cobol
  • Verilog/SystemVerilog
• New syntax highlighting:
  • Kotlin
  • ino (Arduino IDE and a number of other IDEs)

• Misc

• Code cleanup
• Add support for opus audio
• mc-wrapper: don't cd to the same directory
• Improve archive support: more binaries to view archive content
  • lha: jlha, lhasa
  • arj: 7za
  • cab: 7za
  • zip; 7z
  • zipx: 7za
  • iso: 7za
• Clean up in video.sh handler
  • RealPlayer is a proprietary application which can't be installed in most distros and has long been abandoned.
  • gtv hasn't been developed since 2003.
  • xanim barely plays anything.
• Various fixups and updates of man page

• Fixes

• FTBFS on OSes w/o O_CLOEXEC
• FTBFS with glib2 >= 2.63.3
• Undefined "linux" macro on non-Linux systems
• Mouse is not handled with ncurses-6
• Mouse is not handled with S-Lang on some old terminal emulators
• Terminal size is always 80x24 in subshell on Solaris 11.4 SPARC
• Double clicking on empty area of file panel executes last item
• Garbage in input line history
• Speed of file copy is not displayed for single file
• mcedit: blank screen with invisible error
• mcedit: broken syntax highlighting for shell scripts
• VFS: broken browsing of .deb packages
• mc.lib installed twice

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 23405.