Midnight Commander 4.8.30

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Major changes since 4.8.29

Core

• Support PCRE2 as search engine (via ----with-search-engine=pcre2) (#4450)
• Implement panelization buffers for both file panels (#4370)

VFS

• extfs helpers: replace "perl -w" with "use warnings" (MidnightCommander?/mc#174)

Editor

• Improvements of syntax highlighting:
  • ECMAScript (MidnightCommander?/mc#172)
  • ECMAScript in TypeScript? (MidnightCommander?/mc#172)
  • use diff syntax highlighting for git commit messages (COMMIT_EDITMSG) (MidnightCommander?/mc#85)

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Misc

• Code cleanup (#4426, #4438)
• Filehighlight:
  • recognize vsix files as zip files (MidnightCommander?/mc#171)
• Skin updates:
  • julia256 (#4441, #4445)

Fixes

• Wrong sort order after swapping panels (#4432)
• Incorrect time delimiter in the copy/move progress window (#4437)
• Incorrect redraw of overlapped file panels (#4408)
• Subshell/Command? line prompt is empty/missing (#3121)
• Find file: relative ignore directory is applied to the start search directory (#4235)
• mc.ext.ini: 'Edit' command from 'Default' section is ignored (#4434)
• mc.ext.ini: .md files are not recognized as Markdown ones by extension (#4444)
• mcedit: off-by-one error in paragraph formatting (#4446)
• Various typos in the source code (MidnightCommander?/mc#177, MidnightCommander?/mc#178)