Midnight Commander 4.8.2

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Major changes since 4.8.1

Core

• Added new flag -X (--no-x) to allow dont't use X11 to get the state of modifiers Alt, Ctrl, Shift (#86)
• Support of '~' as home dir in 'Start at:' field in 'Find File' dialog (#2694)
• Learn of 'Back Tab' is possible now in 'Learn keys' dialog (#2628)
• Optional '0x' prefix for hexadecimal search (#2705)

VFS

Editor

• Added as.syntax (#2708)

Viewer

• Added action bindings for backward search (#2105)

Diff viewer

Misc

• Compile failure of 4.8.1 on xBSD because "Undefined symbols: _posix_fallocate" (#2689)
• Added hotkeys for all radio/check-buttons in search/replace dialogs (#2704)
• New file bindings:
  • .m4v, .ts - video (#2702)
  • djv - DjVu? (#2645)
• Simplify mc.menu - remove LZMA|LZ and change p7 to 7z (#2703)

Fixes

• Wrong total bytes counter for subdirs in copy/move dialog (#2503)
• Command line is unaccessible from tree panel (#2714)
• Extra confirmation before delete an empty hotlist group (#1576)
• Can't open an edit zero-length file from VFS in mcedit (#2710)