= Midnight Commander 4.8.0-pre1 =

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'''WARNING''': Configuration files from your $HOME/.mc directory was moved to XDG_CONFIG_* directories to respect [http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.7.html FDO standard]. To get more information, see ticket #1851.

== Major changes since 4.7.5 ==

=== Core ===
  * Added 256 colours support (#2169, #2173, #2475)
  * Changed default text in filtered view (alt-!) to input command line (if not empty) or stay old behaviour (current file under cursor) (#2266)
  * Added simple swap mode that means the swap of panel locations, in addition to current swap of panel content (#2368)
  * Сonfiguration files now moved to directory specified in XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable (#1851)
  * Panel options are read now from [Panels] section only. [Midnight-Commander] section is not read (#2305)
  * "Show mini info" checkbox was moved from the "Layout" dialog window to the "Panel options" one (#2305)
  * Added support of skip all errors on multi-file/dir operation (#71)
  * 'Find Files' improvements:
    * support relative ignored directories (#2275);
    * handle of ignored directories in dialog window (#2275);
    * "Search for content" checkbox is enabled by default (#2462)
  * Added hardlinks detection for filehighlight (#2478)
  * Unification of keybind names (#2511):
    * most of keybinding names are changes to unify that names. Table of old and new names is available in doc/keybind-migration.txt;
    * improve of key rebinding: previously, to rebind some keys, used must redefine the entire section where that bindings are placed in user keymap file. New merge algorithm doesn't require that and allows rebind only wanted keys;
    * added --nokeymap command line option to disable external keymaps.
  * Sources in 'lib' directory now independent to sources in 'src' one (#2501)
  * Added configure parameter --enable-mclib for build libmc.so shared library (#2501)
  * Added new engine for universal event system (as part of #2501)

=== VFS ===
  * VFS structure changes (as part of #2501):
    * moved from lib/vfs/mc-vfs to lib/vfs;
    * split by directories for VFS-modules and moved to src/vfs;
    * lib/vfs/vfs-impl.h was merged into lib/vfs/vfs.h

=== Editor ===
  * New engine of the editor macro (#323)
  * Multiply repeat of the recorded actions (#323)
  * Call extermal scripts from the editor (#323, #2512)
  * Added REDO action (#25)
  * Group UNDO by action (#27)
  * Selection is not reset after execute user menu (#2463)
  * Vertical selection is not reset after copy/move (#2504)
  * More intuitive word left/right action (now the cursor stop beside EOL/BOL) (#2483)
  * Duble-click marks the current word. Added action !EditMarkWord to mark word, !EditMarkLine to mark current line (#2499)

=== Viewer ===

=== Diff viewer ===

=== Misc ===
  * Minor enhancement in mc.ext:
    * added -C key to nm utility in View action for static libraries (#2485)
  * Added new entries in cedit.menu: "Sort selection", "Upper case", "Lower case".
  * New skins:
    * Xoria256 (#2469)
  * Updated skins:
    * Nice dark (#1791)
  * Code cleanup (#2481);
  * Added support for [http://check.sourceforge.net check] unit test framework (as part of #2501)

=== Fixes ===
  * Broken Del & Backspace in dialogs (in locale CP866) (#1634)
  * Screen and input corruption under xterm in non-UTF locales (#1668)
  * Alt-Backspace shortcut doesn't work (#2455)
  * Broken command autocompletion (#2458)
  * Swap panels doesn't respect sort options (#2368)
  * File list format of panel is initialized incorrectly after switch back from quick view or info mode to file list one (#2390)
  * Main menu is not drawn correctly after change of it visibility and activity (#2466)
  * MC switches to left panel after call of command history using mouse (#2459)
  * Find file: don't check content regexp if search for content is not used (#2464)
  * Color of panel header cannot be set in the command line (#2170)
  * Editor: incorrect restore selection after UNDO (#2456)
  * Editor: segfault after getting the previous char in utf8 (#2484)
  * Editor: incorrect detection of the word boundary (added '{', '}' as end of word) (#2500)
  * Bold and selected colors of viewer cannot be set in the command line (#2489)
  * Diff viewer: quick left/right movements don't work in non-default key maps (#2509)
  * Made AI_ADDRCONFIG optional for RFC 3493 non-compliant systems (#2401)
  * isoinfo adds ";1" to the end of file name when Joliet without Rock Ridge is used (#2471)
  * cd to ~ processed incorrectly in the command line if more than one space is separating the "cd" and "~"(#2120)