From 997a6c3a845d8b34f553cd7b8102ed656fcef2cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Borodin Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:59:39 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] News about version 4.6.2 and older were moved to doc/NEWS.OLD file. Signed-off-by: Andrew Borodin --- doc/NEWS | 926 --------------------------------------------------- doc/NEWS.OLD | 924 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 924 insertions(+), 926 deletions(-) create mode 100644 doc/NEWS.OLD diff --git a/doc/NEWS b/doc/NEWS index 0200b69a3..6639643e2 100644 --- a/doc/NEWS +++ b/doc/NEWS @@ -331,929 +331,3 @@ Version 4.7.0-pre1 * commandline completion fixes (mainly, escaping hadling) * small fixes in history handling (locale independent .mc/history entries) * code cleanups, various memleak/etc fixes (many thanks to valgrind) - - -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 - - -Version 4.6.1. - -- Core functionality. - - Bash < 2.05b no longer supported. For usage with bash < 2.05b fix - subshell_name_quote() to use 3-digit octals. - -Version 4.6.1. - -- Core functionality. - - Device numbers are displayed correctly. - - Improved message formatting for i18n. - - Recursive option added for internal grep. - -- Viewer. - - Almost completely rewritten internal viewer. - - mmap(2) support removed from internal viewer. - -- VFS. - - Fixed device number handling. - - zipfs can handle zip files that contain pathnames starting - with "./". - - Passive FTP over proxies is possible. - -- Miscellaneous. - - Code cleanup in various places - - -Version 4.6.1-pre5. - -- Core functionality. - - Fix double free in mc_maybe_editor_or_viewer(). - - Do not blindly cleanup in exit_subshell(). - - Fix blocking of panel cd-ing with white space command. - - Fix mini status after first Ctrl-O. - - Fix dynamic loading of Photon library for shift keys. - -- Security. - - See also VFS. - -- Portability. - - Added configuration files for Sun Solaris pkgmk(1). - -- Editor. - - Fix position save bug. - - Improve c.syntax. - - Improve makefile.syntax. - - Improve python.syntax. - - Improve eiffel.syntax. - - Improve syntax.syntax. - -- Viewer. - - Add .7z archives extensions to mc.ext.in. - - Add OpenOffice.org 2 extensions to mc.ext.in. - - Recognize both .udeb and .deb as Debian packages. - -- Screen libraries. - - Backport S-Lang fixes from HEAD. - -- VFS. - - Extensive samba cleanup. - - Fix possible crash on broken cpio archives. - - Quote fixes in urar.in. - -- Translations. - - Updated translations: German. - - Updated translations: Italian. - - -Version 4.6.1-pre4. - -- Core functionality. - - Fix X11 connection handling. - -- Editor. - - Add syntax file for the x86 assembler. - - Add syntax file for the Vision(tm) Ray Tracer. - - Add syntax file for the CORBA IDL. - - Add syntax file for the LUA programming language. - - -Version 4.6.1-pre3. - -- Core functionality. - - Improve support for tcsh. - -- Translations. - - Updated translations: Spain. - - -Version 4.6.1-pre2. - -Release candidate for 4.6.1. - -- Security. - - Fixed CAN-2004-0226 (buffer overflows). - - Fixed CAN-2004-0231 (unsafe temporary file and directory creation). - - Fixed CAN-2004-0232 (format string vulnerablities). - - cons.saver does not need to be setuid-root on Linux. - - Hiding of FTP passwords. - -- Portability. - - PC port has been removed. - - Support for SCO UNIX has been removed. - - Improve support for QNX Neutrino. - -- Core functionality. - - Use 8bit input as default. - - Better support for '@' in FTP usernames. - - Better large file support (int -> off_t) - - Add gnome, rxvt and xterm-new terminals (keyword copy for mc.lib). - - Make the find dialog more responsive while scanning through large files. - - Add implementation to cons.handler for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x. - - Screen saving is now supported on FreeBSD console. - - Hide temporary commands from history. - - Add --with-glib12 option to configure to force using glib 1.2.x. - - Add --disable-background option to disable background support. - - Background support now uses pipes instead of UNIX sockets. - - libX11 is loaded dynamically using gmodule if possible. - - User is warned if one mc is run from another. - -- Screen libraries. - - Add many boundary check into internal slang library. - - Internal slang upgrade to 1.4.9. - - Increased maximum screen size to 512 x 512. - - Add support for qansi-m terminals. - -- Editor. - - Fix bugs for mcedit compiled with ncurses. - - New status string format in mcedit. - - Support for large syntax files. - - Temporarily disable safe save and backups on remote VFS - because it doesn't work. - - Enable user menu in mcedit. - - Add syntax file for the ASP.NET technology. - - Add syntax file for the Eiffel programming language. - - Add syntax file for the Ruby programming language. - - Add syntax file for the C# programming language. - - Upgrade php.syntax file. - - Improve sql.syntax file. - - Improve perl.syntax. - - Improve diff.syntax. - - Improve makefile.syntax. - - Add "define" keyword for syntax files. - -- VFS. - - Full audit of quoting of parameters in vfs scripts (CAN-2004-0494). - - Fixed CAN-2003-1023 (stack overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink). - - Various fixes in tar.c. - - VFS supports iso9660 images. - -- Translations. - - New translations: Mongolian, Serbian and Lithuanian. - - Updated translations: Ukrainian, Italian, Hungarian. - - -Version 4.6.0. - -- Core functionality. - - Fixed infinite loop under xterm if xterm is forcedly closed. - -- Portability. - - ncurses can be found even if it's renamed to curses (OpenBSD). - - Warning fixes for 64-bit systems. - - -Version 4.6.0-pre3. - -Another release candidate for 4.6.0. - -- Core functionality. - - ".." is no longer shown in the root directory. - - Fixed segmentation fault when processing truncated - section header in the corrupted initialization file. - -- Screen libraries. - - Fixed incorrect processing of AltGr on Linux console - introduced in -pre2. - -- Documentation. - - Fixed a bug in man2hlp that could randomly prevent correct - generation of the help files. - - Added manual page for mcview. - - -Version 4.6.0-pre2. - -Release candidate for 4.6.0. - -- Security. - - mc now creates its own temporary directory /tmp/mc-$USER. - If it fails or permissions are wrong, the user is warned. - -- Portability. - - mc now complies with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and - uses @prefix@/share/mc for the data files. - - Support for glib 2.0.x has been added. - - glib 1.2 is now properly detected on FreeBSD. - -- Core functionality. - - Fixed segmentation fault when displaying messages from - background operations. - - When using support for setting the last working directory of - mc in the parent shell, "mc" is now an alias in all shells, - not a function. The "-P" option needs an argument now. - - Alt-O sets the same directory on the other panel. - - Current directory is shown in the xterm window title. - -- Screen libraries. - - Screen library is now selected by the option --with-screen. - - X11 support is enabled by default, use --without-x to disable. - - The keycode now contains information about all screen - modifiers. This allows to implement more shortcuts, but this - work has just begun. - - Included S-Lang library has been updated to version 1.4.5. - - Mouse wheel is supported in the internal editor and viewer in - xterm compatible terminals that implement wheel events. - -- Editor. - - Internal editor now saves the cursor position in the file. - - New syntax rules - RPM specfile, m4. - - Editor shows control characters in the caret notation. - -- VFS. - - Most extfs scripts have been reviewed and improved. - - Fixed viewing and editing files on mcfs. - - Support for termnet and HSC firewall has been removed. - -- Documentation. - - Polish manual has been added. - -Version 4.6.0-pre1. - -- Security release. Massive code cleanup. Most improvements didn't - need any significant amount of the new code. - -- Security. - - Fixes for remotely exploitable buffer overflows in VFS. - -- Ports and editions. - - GNOME edition has been removed. - - OS/2 port has been removed. - - MAD (Memory Allocation Debugger) has been removed. - -- Core functionality. - - Large file support enabled by default. - - Shift-F5 and Shift-F6 copy and rename like F5 and F6, but - suggest the selected filename as the destination. - - File search with contents doesn't use external egrep. - - Directories with many files are now reloaded much faster. - - Subshell works under Cygwin. - -- Screen libraries. - - Improved support for ncurses. - - Dropped support for the old Curses library. - - Colors are enabled on all capable terminals when using S-Lang. - - Syntax highlighting now works with ncurses. - -- Editor. - - Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit - to avoid collision with Cooledit. - - New syntax rules - PHP, Tcl, SQL, DOS batch file. - - Editor supports word completion. - -- VFS. - - Local temporary file is used for uploading via ftpfs/fish only - if file is uploaded to the same ftp/fish server. - - mcfs support is disabled by default. - - Samba configuration and codepage files locations can be - configured. - - .netrc support in ftpfs is enabled by default. - - Viewing zip files could corrupt them. - -- Documentation. - - Added manuals in Spanish, Italian and Russian. - - Help files are not distributed, but generated during the - build from the manual pages. - -- Translations. - - Belarussian translation has been added. - - -Version 4.5.55 - -- Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes. Making things work as they - were meant to work. - -- Text edition improvements. - - Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor. - - Better terminal support. Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt - and xterm in most cases. - -- GNOME edition improvements. - - Find dialog rewritten. - - Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when - closed from window manager. - -- Editor. - - New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave. - - Alt-B goes to matching bracket. - -- Portability improvements. - - Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino. - - Can be compiled by BSD make. - - Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable. - -- Experimental features (disabled by default). - - Charset conversion support. - - Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems. - - -Version 4.5 - -- Too many new features to list. - -- This is the last version to be actively maintained. The GNOME - edition is in stabilization and maintenance phase only. A new file - manager is being written for the GNOME project. - - -Version 3.5 - -- New hotlist code. - - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports - folders. New format for the hot list file. - - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line - (C-Enter). - -- Tk enhancements. - - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look - of the program at run time (no penalty for users). - - Many dialog boxes now work. - - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu. - - Added many visual enhancements. - - The Tk edition is not yet finished though. - -- File management. - - Now we do background copy and move operations. - (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example). - -- Built in text editor - - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus. - The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move, - delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro - definition; regular expression search and replace (and our - own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC - text highlighting (for the Linux console only); - insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks - through shell commands like indent. - - Comes with Emacs keybindings as well. - - mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode. - -- FTP File system - - Many fixes and enhancements, better support for proxy - machines. - - Now we support both active and passive opens. - - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers. - - stalled detection. - - Much better support for proxies. - - ftp URLs now allow a password to be provided. - -- ext2fs Undelete File system - - Minor enhancements. - -- TAR File system - - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified - -- External File systems: - - Speeded up RPM file system. - - New LHA file system. - - New ARC file system. - - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian). - - New RAR file system. - - Fixed problems with different zipfs. - -- MC file system: - - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes. - -- Viewer changes: - - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it - so, you get colored mails in the viewer. - - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it). - -- New hex editor - - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke. - (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit). - -- Find file command: - - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly - interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files, - tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an - ftp site) - -- Widgets: - - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the - Linux console. - -- Extension file: - - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include= - tag. - -- Ports: - - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera - - OS/2 by Alexander Dong. - - -- Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed. - - -Version 3.2 - -- External File system: - - Mtools file system works. - - New Cpio file system. - - New RPM file system. - -- FTP file system: - - support for HSC firewall - -- Lots of subshell fixes - -- Regexp-extension: - - Editing of non-local files works now. - -- Bunch of bug fixes. - -- Panelize now works properly. - -- Can work on Nextstep now. - -- Windows NT port by Juan Grigera. - -- Midnight Commander file system server: - - Fixed errno handling in the server. - - Fixed time handling in the server. - - Better caching. - - Works with PAM if supported on the system. - -Version 3.1 - -This has been finished: - -- Enhanced ftpfs: - - Displays progress bars. - - Supports Netware and Windows NT servers - - Better support for symlinked files. - - Handles those warez sites file names. - - Increase the directory cache timeout. - - Cache flushing (C-r) - - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home - directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect). - - More robust. -- Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer). - - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users. - - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files). - - Rewrote the sync code between the parent and child, should not hang - any longer. -- Better command completion. -- Keypad handling enhanced: - - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to - only take place if you do not have a command typed in. - - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work - may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys - free. -- Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX. -- Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems. -- Global kill ring. -- Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files - on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system. -- Symlink commands (for symlink lovers). - see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes. -- New macros: - %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename - %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable. -- MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag). -- Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N) -- Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully -- Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory. - -This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1 -release: - -Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd -Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose -Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen, -Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad. - -Version 3.0 - -This has been finished: - -- Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and - file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories; -- Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile - with ncurses, if you want). -- New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided. -- Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one. -- Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH). -- Find file command is much faster. -- External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of - criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk, - grep -l or anything else. -- Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken - terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which - are not working. -- Advanced chown command. -- C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected - directory respectively on the Linux console. -- You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or - other (0-255). -- Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added. -- Viewer has growing buffers. -- Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all - input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command - line. -- Following of symlinks at changing directory. -- Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the - information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting - mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file. -- Mask rename and copy. -- Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want. - -This is being worked on: -- Virtual File System: FTP file system. -- Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are - up and running). - - -Version 2.0 - -Now users are able to define their own display - -- User defined display formats. - - Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs. - For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed - instead of our defaults. - -- User definable program layout. - - Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally; - panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most - program windows (command line, keybar or menubar). - -- Output window. - - Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux - console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout - menu. - -- New View modes: - - Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on - the other panel on the idle time. - - Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree. - We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does - not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you - browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you - want to :-). - - Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and - the current file system as you move. - - User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you - want to use. - -- New subshell support (concurrent shell execution) - - The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you - get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables - and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and - tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still - available. - -- Dialog box manager - - Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this - new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes - in DOS and Windows. - - Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons, - input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on - your applications). - -- New option configuration. - - Now the program options are configured with a dialog box. - -- Chmod and Chown commands: - - For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and - directories, uses our new dialog manager. - -- Color customization support - - Now you can change the default color of the program with any of - these: - environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per - terminal type) and command line. - -- User menu and extension enhancements: - - Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files). - - User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options. - - You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions. - - Auto detect best match depending on a regexp. - -- Viewer: - Goto line command, - horizontal scrolling, - on the fly decompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU), - allow non gunzip operation. - -- Internal move command: - - Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the - program is more robust and is much faster. Bunches of code come - from the GNU fileutils. - -- The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searches of - file names. - -- Mask rename: - - Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak - -- Compare directories command - -- Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel. - - (You can even have two long panels). - -- F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC. - -- Improved help system. - - We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links. - The Web page is constructed with the same tools. - -- Allows tagging of directories: - - Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You - are not limited anymore to files. - -- View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console. - - On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems - (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and - cursor positions. - -- 8 bit clean support. - -- Visual feedback while i-searching files. - -- Much more intuitive, you have to use it. - -- It's better than aspirin. - -- New memory allocation debugger. - - During testing time, we used a powerful memory allocation debugger, - so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of - your memory. - -- Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and - sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course, - since that's where most of us develop it. - -- Inode sort option. - -- Nice progress status indicator. - - We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar - indicator for file operations. - -Version 0.15 - -- Uses GNU autoconf. - Currently, it has been ported to this configurations: - i386-*-linux1.0 - i386-*-linux1.1 - mips-sgi-irix5.2 - mips-dec-ultrix4.3 - rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5 - sparc-sun-sunos4.1 - sparc-sun-solaris2.3 - -- Improvements to the internal file viewer: - Wrap/Unwrap mode. - Hex mode. - Hex searches. - Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh). - Performance enhancements, now it's much faster. - Works on systems without mmap. - -- Mouse Support now also works on xterms. - If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server - to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky - and can use the mouse support when using xterms. - -- Help system and man page. - Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the - help system can also be used with a mouse. - -- If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program - you ran by using the C-o key combination. - -- Switch panels command (C-u) -- With filter command per panel. -- With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature. -- cd now expands tildes (~, ~user). -- Much more portable. -- Many bugs were fixed. - -Version 0.14 - -- Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files. -- New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s). -- New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t). - -Version 0.13 - -- Behave more like the Norton Commander. -- Added menu file edit. -- If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy - directory. -- When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected. -- forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip - over letters and numbers. -- Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer. -- The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural - way. -- Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer -- Bug fixes. - -Version 0.12 - -- Preliminary support for System V compilation. -- Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases. -- bug fixes. - -Version 0.11 - -- Support cd -. -- Corrected Makefile. - -Version 0.10 - -- Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file - and bottom file in the current panel. -- Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial -- Fixed mouse repeat rate. -- Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file. -- Some minor bug fixes. - -Version 0.9 - -- Mouse Support. -- Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp). -- Verbose Copying of files. -- Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete. -- Support reverse sorting. -- Many visual enhancements. -- Per panel options are saved and restored. -- New truncation of names in the panels. -- History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n). -- Input line enhancements. -- Dialog boxes are nicer than before. -- Cache in gid and uid translators. -- More keybindings for the Input lines. -- Better kill management in Input Lines. -- Bug fixes. - -Version 0.8 - -- The online help now comes with the complete man page. -- Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word. -- Unlimited input lines (command line). -- Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s. -- Many bug fixes. - -Version 0.7 - -- The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option. -- Many bug fixes went to the find file command. -- New history in the hypertext viewer. -- ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the - input line. -- Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or - separated (like the Norton Commander). -- Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details. - -Version 0.6 - -- Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute - things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the - Enter key). -- Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu. -- Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested - by Torben Fjerdingstad ). -- Added options to disable colors and display version number. -- Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp). -- Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file -(when only one file was tagged). -- Some cosmetic changes. -- Bug fixes. - -Version 0.5 - -- Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program. -- New internal viewer. -- New long directory listing format. -- some bug fixes. - -Version 0.4 - -- User Menus (F2 key). -- Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file). -- Char quoting (C-q). -- exec() enhancements. -- now you can suspend the program (C-z). -- The find file command now seems to be very stable. -- misc bug fixes. - -Version 0.3 - -- Setup loading/saving. -- Support for any size screen. -- Many, many bug fixes. diff --git a/doc/NEWS.OLD b/doc/NEWS.OLD new file mode 100644 index 000000000..da5fa6015 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/NEWS.OLD @@ -0,0 +1,924 @@ +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 + + +Version 4.6.1. + +- Core functionality. + - Bash < 2.05b no longer supported. For usage with bash < 2.05b fix + subshell_name_quote() to use 3-digit octals. + +Version 4.6.1. + +- Core functionality. + - Device numbers are displayed correctly. + - Improved message formatting for i18n. + - Recursive option added for internal grep. + +- Viewer. + - Almost completely rewritten internal viewer. + - mmap(2) support removed from internal viewer. + +- VFS. + - Fixed device number handling. + - zipfs can handle zip files that contain pathnames starting + with "./". + - Passive FTP over proxies is possible. + +- Miscellaneous. + - Code cleanup in various places + + +Version 4.6.1-pre5. + +- Core functionality. + - Fix double free in mc_maybe_editor_or_viewer(). + - Do not blindly cleanup in exit_subshell(). + - Fix blocking of panel cd-ing with white space command. + - Fix mini status after first Ctrl-O. + - Fix dynamic loading of Photon library for shift keys. + +- Security. + - See also VFS. + +- Portability. + - Added configuration files for Sun Solaris pkgmk(1). + +- Editor. + - Fix position save bug. + - Improve c.syntax. + - Improve makefile.syntax. + - Improve python.syntax. + - Improve eiffel.syntax. + - Improve syntax.syntax. + +- Viewer. + - Add .7z archives extensions to mc.ext.in. + - Add OpenOffice.org 2 extensions to mc.ext.in. + - Recognize both .udeb and .deb as Debian packages. + +- Screen libraries. + - Backport S-Lang fixes from HEAD. + +- VFS. + - Extensive samba cleanup. + - Fix possible crash on broken cpio archives. + - Quote fixes in urar.in. + +- Translations. + - Updated translations: German. + - Updated translations: Italian. + + +Version 4.6.1-pre4. + +- Core functionality. + - Fix X11 connection handling. + +- Editor. + - Add syntax file for the x86 assembler. + - Add syntax file for the Vision(tm) Ray Tracer. + - Add syntax file for the CORBA IDL. + - Add syntax file for the LUA programming language. + + +Version 4.6.1-pre3. + +- Core functionality. + - Improve support for tcsh. + +- Translations. + - Updated translations: Spain. + + +Version 4.6.1-pre2. + +Release candidate for 4.6.1. + +- Security. + - Fixed CAN-2004-0226 (buffer overflows). + - Fixed CAN-2004-0231 (unsafe temporary file and directory creation). + - Fixed CAN-2004-0232 (format string vulnerablities). + - cons.saver does not need to be setuid-root on Linux. + - Hiding of FTP passwords. + +- Portability. + - PC port has been removed. + - Support for SCO UNIX has been removed. + - Improve support for QNX Neutrino. + +- Core functionality. + - Use 8bit input as default. + - Better support for '@' in FTP usernames. + - Better large file support (int -> off_t) + - Add gnome, rxvt and xterm-new terminals (keyword copy for mc.lib). + - Make the find dialog more responsive while scanning through large files. + - Add implementation to cons.handler for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x. + - Screen saving is now supported on FreeBSD console. + - Hide temporary commands from history. + - Add --with-glib12 option to configure to force using glib 1.2.x. + - Add --disable-background option to disable background support. + - Background support now uses pipes instead of UNIX sockets. + - libX11 is loaded dynamically using gmodule if possible. + - User is warned if one mc is run from another. + +- Screen libraries. + - Add many boundary check into internal slang library. + - Internal slang upgrade to 1.4.9. + - Increased maximum screen size to 512 x 512. + - Add support for qansi-m terminals. + +- Editor. + - Fix bugs for mcedit compiled with ncurses. + - New status string format in mcedit. + - Support for large syntax files. + - Temporarily disable safe save and backups on remote VFS + because it doesn't work. + - Enable user menu in mcedit. + - Add syntax file for the ASP.NET technology. + - Add syntax file for the Eiffel programming language. + - Add syntax file for the Ruby programming language. + - Add syntax file for the C# programming language. + - Upgrade php.syntax file. + - Improve sql.syntax file. + - Improve perl.syntax. + - Improve diff.syntax. + - Improve makefile.syntax. + - Add "define" keyword for syntax files. + +- VFS. + - Full audit of quoting of parameters in vfs scripts (CAN-2004-0494). + - Fixed CAN-2003-1023 (stack overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink). + - Various fixes in tar.c. + - VFS supports iso9660 images. + +- Translations. + - New translations: Mongolian, Serbian and Lithuanian. + - Updated translations: Ukrainian, Italian, Hungarian. + + +Version 4.6.0. + +- Core functionality. + - Fixed infinite loop under xterm if xterm is forcedly closed. + +- Portability. + - ncurses can be found even if it's renamed to curses (OpenBSD). + - Warning fixes for 64-bit systems. + + +Version 4.6.0-pre3. + +Another release candidate for 4.6.0. + +- Core functionality. + - ".." is no longer shown in the root directory. + - Fixed segmentation fault when processing truncated + section header in the corrupted initialization file. + +- Screen libraries. + - Fixed incorrect processing of AltGr on Linux console + introduced in -pre2. + +- Documentation. + - Fixed a bug in man2hlp that could randomly prevent correct + generation of the help files. + - Added manual page for mcview. + + +Version 4.6.0-pre2. + +Release candidate for 4.6.0. + +- Security. + - mc now creates its own temporary directory /tmp/mc-$USER. + If it fails or permissions are wrong, the user is warned. + +- Portability. + - mc now complies with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and + uses @prefix@/share/mc for the data files. + - Support for glib 2.0.x has been added. + - glib 1.2 is now properly detected on FreeBSD. + +- Core functionality. + - Fixed segmentation fault when displaying messages from + background operations. + - When using support for setting the last working directory of + mc in the parent shell, "mc" is now an alias in all shells, + not a function. The "-P" option needs an argument now. + - Alt-O sets the same directory on the other panel. + - Current directory is shown in the xterm window title. + +- Screen libraries. + - Screen library is now selected by the option --with-screen. + - X11 support is enabled by default, use --without-x to disable. + - The keycode now contains information about all screen + modifiers. This allows to implement more shortcuts, but this + work has just begun. + - Included S-Lang library has been updated to version 1.4.5. + - Mouse wheel is supported in the internal editor and viewer in + xterm compatible terminals that implement wheel events. + +- Editor. + - Internal editor now saves the cursor position in the file. + - New syntax rules - RPM specfile, m4. + - Editor shows control characters in the caret notation. + +- VFS. + - Most extfs scripts have been reviewed and improved. + - Fixed viewing and editing files on mcfs. + - Support for termnet and HSC firewall has been removed. + +- Documentation. + - Polish manual has been added. + +Version 4.6.0-pre1. + +- Security release. Massive code cleanup. Most improvements didn't + need any significant amount of the new code. + +- Security. + - Fixes for remotely exploitable buffer overflows in VFS. + +- Ports and editions. + - GNOME edition has been removed. + - OS/2 port has been removed. + - MAD (Memory Allocation Debugger) has been removed. + +- Core functionality. + - Large file support enabled by default. + - Shift-F5 and Shift-F6 copy and rename like F5 and F6, but + suggest the selected filename as the destination. + - File search with contents doesn't use external egrep. + - Directories with many files are now reloaded much faster. + - Subshell works under Cygwin. + +- Screen libraries. + - Improved support for ncurses. + - Dropped support for the old Curses library. + - Colors are enabled on all capable terminals when using S-Lang. + - Syntax highlighting now works with ncurses. + +- Editor. + - Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit + to avoid collision with Cooledit. + - New syntax rules - PHP, Tcl, SQL, DOS batch file. + - Editor supports word completion. + +- VFS. + - Local temporary file is used for uploading via ftpfs/fish only + if file is uploaded to the same ftp/fish server. + - mcfs support is disabled by default. + - Samba configuration and codepage files locations can be + configured. + - .netrc support in ftpfs is enabled by default. + - Viewing zip files could corrupt them. + +- Documentation. + - Added manuals in Spanish, Italian and Russian. + - Help files are not distributed, but generated during the + build from the manual pages. + +- Translations. + - Belarussian translation has been added. + + +Version 4.5.55 + +- Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes. Making things work as they + were meant to work. + +- Text edition improvements. + - Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor. + - Better terminal support. Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt + and xterm in most cases. + +- GNOME edition improvements. + - Find dialog rewritten. + - Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when + closed from window manager. + +- Editor. + - New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave. + - Alt-B goes to matching bracket. + +- Portability improvements. + - Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino. + - Can be compiled by BSD make. + - Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable. + +- Experimental features (disabled by default). + - Charset conversion support. + - Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems. + + +Version 4.5 + +- Too many new features to list. + +- This is the last version to be actively maintained. The GNOME + edition is in stabilization and maintenance phase only. A new file + manager is being written for the GNOME project. + + +Version 3.5 + +- New hotlist code. + - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports + folders. New format for the hot list file. + - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line + (C-Enter). + +- Tk enhancements. + - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look + of the program at run time (no penalty for users). + - Many dialog boxes now work. + - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu. + - Added many visual enhancements. + - The Tk edition is not yet finished though. + +- File management. + - Now we do background copy and move operations. + (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example). + +- Built in text editor + - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus. + The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move, + delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro + definition; regular expression search and replace (and our + own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC + text highlighting (for the Linux console only); + insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks + through shell commands like indent. + + Comes with Emacs keybindings as well. + + mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode. + +- FTP File system + - Many fixes and enhancements, better support for proxy + machines. + - Now we support both active and passive opens. + - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers. + - stalled detection. + - Much better support for proxies. + - ftp URLs now allow a password to be provided. + +- ext2fs Undelete File system + - Minor enhancements. + +- TAR File system + - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified + +- External File systems: + - Speeded up RPM file system. + - New LHA file system. + - New ARC file system. + - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian). + - New RAR file system. + - Fixed problems with different zipfs. + +- MC file system: + - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes. + +- Viewer changes: + - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it + so, you get colored mails in the viewer. + - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it). + +- New hex editor + - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke. + (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit). + +- Find file command: + - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly + interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files, + tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an + ftp site) + +- Widgets: + - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the + Linux console. + +- Extension file: + - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include= + tag. + +- Ports: + - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera + - OS/2 by Alexander Dong. + + +- Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed. + + +Version 3.2 + +- External File system: + - Mtools file system works. + - New Cpio file system. + - New RPM file system. + +- FTP file system: + - support for HSC firewall + +- Lots of subshell fixes + +- Regexp-extension: + - Editing of non-local files works now. + +- Bunch of bug fixes. + +- Panelize now works properly. + +- Can work on Nextstep now. + +- Windows NT port by Juan Grigera. + +- Midnight Commander file system server: + - Fixed errno handling in the server. + - Fixed time handling in the server. + - Better caching. + - Works with PAM if supported on the system. + +Version 3.1 + +This has been finished: + +- Enhanced ftpfs: + - Displays progress bars. + - Supports Netware and Windows NT servers + - Better support for symlinked files. + - Handles those warez sites file names. + - Increase the directory cache timeout. + - Cache flushing (C-r) + - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home + directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect). + - More robust. +- Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer). + - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users. + - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files). + - Rewrote the sync code between the parent and child, should not hang + any longer. +- Better command completion. +- Keypad handling enhanced: + - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to + only take place if you do not have a command typed in. + - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work + may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys + free. +- Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX. +- Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems. +- Global kill ring. +- Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files + on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system. +- Symlink commands (for symlink lovers). + see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes. +- New macros: + %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename + %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable. +- MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag). +- Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N) +- Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully +- Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory. + +This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1 +release: + +Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd +Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose +Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen, +Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad. + +Version 3.0 + +This has been finished: + +- Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and + file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories; +- Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile + with ncurses, if you want). +- New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided. +- Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one. +- Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH). +- Find file command is much faster. +- External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of + criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk, + grep -l or anything else. +- Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken + terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which + are not working. +- Advanced chown command. +- C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected + directory respectively on the Linux console. +- You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or + other (0-255). +- Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added. +- Viewer has growing buffers. +- Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all + input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command + line. +- Following of symlinks at changing directory. +- Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the + information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting + mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file. +- Mask rename and copy. +- Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want. + +This is being worked on: +- Virtual File System: FTP file system. +- Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are + up and running). + + +Version 2.0 + +Now users are able to define their own display + +- User defined display formats. + + Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs. + For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed + instead of our defaults. + +- User definable program layout. + + Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally; + panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most + program windows (command line, keybar or menubar). + +- Output window. + + Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux + console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout + menu. + +- New View modes: + + Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on + the other panel on the idle time. + + Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree. + We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does + not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you + browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you + want to :-). + + Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and + the current file system as you move. + + User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you + want to use. + +- New subshell support (concurrent shell execution) + + The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you + get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables + and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and + tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still + available. + +- Dialog box manager + + Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this + new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes + in DOS and Windows. + + Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons, + input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on + your applications). + +- New option configuration. + + Now the program options are configured with a dialog box. + +- Chmod and Chown commands: + + For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and + directories, uses our new dialog manager. + +- Color customization support + + Now you can change the default color of the program with any of + these: + environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per + terminal type) and command line. + +- User menu and extension enhancements: + + Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files). + + User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options. + + You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions. + + Auto detect best match depending on a regexp. + +- Viewer: + Goto line command, + horizontal scrolling, + on the fly decompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU), + allow non gunzip operation. + +- Internal move command: + + Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the + program is more robust and is much faster. Bunches of code come + from the GNU fileutils. + +- The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searches of + file names. + +- Mask rename: + + Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak + +- Compare directories command + +- Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel. + + (You can even have two long panels). + +- F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC. + +- Improved help system. + + We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links. + The Web page is constructed with the same tools. + +- Allows tagging of directories: + + Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You + are not limited anymore to files. + +- View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console. + + On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems + (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and + cursor positions. + +- 8 bit clean support. + +- Visual feedback while i-searching files. + +- Much more intuitive, you have to use it. + +- It's better than aspirin. + +- New memory allocation debugger. + + During testing time, we used a powerful memory allocation debugger, + so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of + your memory. + +- Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and + sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course, + since that's where most of us develop it. + +- Inode sort option. + +- Nice progress status indicator. + + We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar + indicator for file operations. + +Version 0.15 + +- Uses GNU autoconf. + Currently, it has been ported to this configurations: + i386-*-linux1.0 + i386-*-linux1.1 + mips-sgi-irix5.2 + mips-dec-ultrix4.3 + rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5 + sparc-sun-sunos4.1 + sparc-sun-solaris2.3 + +- Improvements to the internal file viewer: + Wrap/Unwrap mode. + Hex mode. + Hex searches. + Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh). + Performance enhancements, now it's much faster. + Works on systems without mmap. + +- Mouse Support now also works on xterms. + If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server + to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky + and can use the mouse support when using xterms. + +- Help system and man page. + Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the + help system can also be used with a mouse. + +- If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program + you ran by using the C-o key combination. + +- Switch panels command (C-u) +- With filter command per panel. +- With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature. +- cd now expands tildes (~, ~user). +- Much more portable. +- Many bugs were fixed. + +Version 0.14 + +- Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files. +- New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s). +- New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t). + +Version 0.13 + +- Behave more like the Norton Commander. +- Added menu file edit. +- If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy + directory. +- When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected. +- forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip + over letters and numbers. +- Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer. +- The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural + way. +- Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer +- Bug fixes. + +Version 0.12 + +- Preliminary support for System V compilation. +- Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases. +- bug fixes. + +Version 0.11 + +- Support cd -. +- Corrected Makefile. + +Version 0.10 + +- Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file + and bottom file in the current panel. +- Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial +- Fixed mouse repeat rate. +- Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file. +- Some minor bug fixes. + +Version 0.9 + +- Mouse Support. +- Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp). +- Verbose Copying of files. +- Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete. +- Support reverse sorting. +- Many visual enhancements. +- Per panel options are saved and restored. +- New truncation of names in the panels. +- History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n). +- Input line enhancements. +- Dialog boxes are nicer than before. +- Cache in gid and uid translators. +- More keybindings for the Input lines. +- Better kill management in Input Lines. +- Bug fixes. + +Version 0.8 + +- The online help now comes with the complete man page. +- Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word. +- Unlimited input lines (command line). +- Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s. +- Many bug fixes. + +Version 0.7 + +- The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option. +- Many bug fixes went to the find file command. +- New history in the hypertext viewer. +- ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the + input line. +- Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or + separated (like the Norton Commander). +- Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details. + +Version 0.6 + +- Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute + things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the + Enter key). +- Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu. +- Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested + by Torben Fjerdingstad ). +- Added options to disable colors and display version number. +- Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp). +- Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file +(when only one file was tagged). +- Some cosmetic changes. +- Bug fixes. + +Version 0.5 + +- Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program. +- New internal viewer. +- New long directory listing format. +- some bug fixes. + +Version 0.4 + +- User Menus (F2 key). +- Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file). +- Char quoting (C-q). +- exec() enhancements. +- now you can suspend the program (C-z). +- The find file command now seems to be very stable. +- misc bug fixes. + +Version 0.3 + +- Setup loading/saving. +- Support for any size screen. +- Many, many bug fixes.