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)
• Rename key bindings:
  • [main].PanelListingSwitch? -> [panel].CycleListingFormat?
  • [main].PanelListingChange? -> [main].SetupListingFormat?

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)
  • Apache Hive QL syntax (#3828)

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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)
• Wrong --help message for mcview, mcedit and mcdiff (#3805)
• External panelize: opening a file with an absolute path fails (#2942)
• Filter isn't cleared when entering empty string (#3813)
• Panelization is not kept while switching panel listing mode (#3810)
• Cannot tab out of a QuickView? panel (#3815)
• Cannot use the F10 key in a QuickView? panel (#3816)
• mcview: file interpreted as latin1 instead of utf8 (#3783)
• mcview: incomplete read of filtering data (#3817)
• mcview: search doesn't grow file as much as needed (#3819)
• man pages: wrong paths of mc.hint and mc.hlp (#3806)
• VFS: incremental tar doesn't contain empty directories (#2297)
• VFS: incremental tar: wrong directories owner for tar --numeric-owner -g (#3709)
• VFS: timestamps not being preserved due to uninitialized struct stat st_[acm]tim.tv_nsec (#3821)
• VFS: tests: locale issue causing helpers using 'sort' to fail (#3787)
• VFS: tests: unportable 'echo' use causing one rpm helper test to fail (#3786)