Midnight Commander 4.6.2

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Version 4.6.2

- MC Core
- Changed HQ url to point to new website
www.midnight-commander.org (Closes: #137, #138)
- Added a micro helper library in order to go slowly
avay from glib (Closes: #157)
- Use static strings as section entries in ~/.mc/history
WARNING!: This will break old files (Closes: #50)
- Fixed a repaint issue when clicking on the "View" Button instead
of using F3 (Closes: #35)
- Removed obsolete autoconf macros (Closes: #133)
- Fix escaping for command line completion (Closes: #147)
- prevent mc from segfaulting when getting invalid timestamps on files (Closes: #96)
- Fixed a keybord issue when running mc via a putty console (Closes: #203)
- setted pty fd to closeonexec (on subshell) (Closes: #174)
- Fixed file renames, when copying/moving is performed
into deleted directories. (Closes: #181)
- Add an option to show executables first in the panels (Closes: #173)
- Fixed concat_dir_and_file if there is a parameter = NULL (Closes: #180)
- Allow out-of-tree builds (Closes: #224, #208)

- Editor
- Syntax highlighting for:
+ debian files (debian/changelog, debian/control, debian/copyright, ..) (Closes: #142)
+ updated sh syntax highlighting (Closes: #143)
+ updated pascal syntax highlighting (Closes: #65)
+ differentiate between c and cpp files for highlighting (Closes: #16)
+ updated python highlighting to support python 2.6 (Closes: #216)
- Removed some unneeded variables (Closes: #168, #151)
- Do use a ro test if a file exists (Closes: #206)
- Fixes some missbehaviour in regex matching (Closes: #207, #211 )
+ start at front of line and not on cursor position
+ . shouldn't match a newline

- VFS
- Fix some bashisms in some extfs scripts (Closes: #146)
- Fixed various problems with symlinks and files with chars which needs
escaping over fish (Closes: #10, #87, #149, #53)
- Added 7zip extfs descriptor (Closes: #92)
- Switched from o3totxt to odf2txt as o3totxt is outdated (Closes: #218)

- Locale
- Updated german translation (Closes: #167)
- New Belarussian translation (Closes: #170)
- Updated russian translation (Closes: #159)

Version 4.6.2-pre1.

- Editor.
- Prompt the user whether to detach a hardlinked file
in "Quick save" mode.
- Fix a bug which prevented the editor from creating a
lock file in certain scenarios (bug #13673).
- New shortcut - Ctrl+S. Allows the user to toggle
syntax highlighting.
- Allow the user to override the automatic syntax
highlighting.
- Duplicate hotkey fixes.

- VFS.
- extfs: Do not hang waiting for user input on password
protected .rar archives.
- extfs: Do not leave stale temporary files.
- extfs: Add support for ALZip archives.
- extfs: Properly retrieve the filesize of very large
files stored inside a .zip archive.
- extfs: Various quoting fixes.
- extfs: Various improvements in deb, iso9660, mailfs, rpm, trpm.

- fish: Fix uploading of files with backtick characters in
their names.
- fish: Improve upload speed.
- fish: Allow for retrieving files larger than 2 GB.
- fish: Enable reget functionality.
- fish: Use numerical uid/gid when retrieving the directory
listing.

- ftpfs: Allow for entering non-readable directories.
- ftpfs: Allow the user to interrupt the connection establishment.
- ftpfs: Enable reget functionality.
- ftpfs: `first_cd_then_ls' is the default mode for retrieving
directory contents now.

- tarfs: Add support for long filenames as stored in
ustar format archives.
- tarfs: Allow for working with archives conforming to
POSIX.1-2001 standard