Midnight Commander 4.8.20

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Major changes since 4.8.19

Core

• Store the 'hotlist' file in ~/.local/share/mc instead of ~/.config/mc (#3687)

VFS

• extfs helpers tester:
  • diff of failed tests is now included in output to ease bug reporting (#3784)

Editor

• Syntax:
  • ES2015 support (#3793)
  • TypeScript support (#3794)
  • Ada 95 updates (#3804)

Viewer

Diff viewer

Misc

• Unify curses initialization for various curses implementations (#3697)
• Highlight txz extension as archive like tgz, etc. (#3782)

Fixes

• Improper use of IEC and SI prefixes for size (#3666)
• VFS: tests: locale issue causing helpers using 'sort' to fail (#3787)
• VFS: tests: unportable 'echo' use causing one rpm helper test to fail (#3786)
• Wrong --help message for mcview, mcedit and mcdiff (#3805)
• man pages: wrong paths of mc.hint and mc.hlp (#3806)