Month: August 2024

mc 4.8.32 rpms released and added to all supported platforms

S3 and uc1541 are now included in new mc-python package (that requires Python 3).

Major changes since 4.8.31

Core

• Tell the current directory to the terminal using OSC 7 sequence (so it can open new tabs there)
• Preserve ext2fs attributes on copy/move operations
• Change name of temporary directory: make it unique for each run
• Hide password in file operation progress dialog
• Support reget in file move operation
• Implement nanosecond precision timestamps on non-Linux (macOS, BSD, AIX, Solaris)
• Remove remaining mmap code to simplify maintenance

VFS

• extfs: support unrar-7

Editor

• Improve syntax highlighting:
  • C and C++

Viewer

Diff viewer

• Add man page mcdiff.1

Misc

• Code cleanup
• New skins
  • xoria256-thin, xoria256root-thin
  • modarcon16-defbg-thin, modarcon16-thin, modarcon16root-defbg-thin, modarcon16root-thin
  • modarin256-defbg-thin, modarin256-thin, modarin256root-defbg-thin, modarin256root-thin
  • julia256root
• mc.ext.ini: clarify escaping of spaces and parenthesis

Fixes

• External editor does not work with arguments in $EDITOR
• fish shell: strings ” cd (printf ‘%b’ … ” in history
• Redundant back slashes for autocomplete
• subshell: call execl with argv[0] that is not an actual path to Bash
• mcedit: php.syntax: comment highlight from start of light only
• mcedit: wrong replacement using regular expressions with begin or end of line
• mcedit: losing column position when navigating up/down
• mcedit: macro deletes text
• mcedit: macros are applied to the pasted text
• extfs: iso9660: xorriso is slow to open an ISO image
• extfs: u7z: wrong add of nested directories to archive
• extfs: segfault on enter to deleted archive
• tar: segfault on copy files from archive
• man: typo