1 Changes made after 4.6.0-pre1.
3 - Polish manual has been added.
4 - glib is now properly detected on FreeBSD.
5 - New syntax rules - RPM specfile.
6 - Support for termnet and HSC firewall has heen removed.
7 - mc now creates its own temporary directory, separate for each user.
8 - Experimental support for glib 2.0.x has been added (use --with-glib2).
9 - Mouse wheel is supported in the internal editor and viewer in xterm
10 compatible terminals that implement wheel events correctly.
11 - mc now complies with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and uses
12 @prefix@/share/mc for the data files.
13 - Editor shows control characters in the caret notation.
14 - Fixed segmentation fault when displaying messages from background
20 - Security release. Massive code cleanup. Most improvements didn't
21 need any significant amount of the new code.
24 - Fixes for remotely exploitable buffer overflows in VFS.
27 - GNOME edition has been removed.
28 - OS/2 port has been removed.
29 - MAD (Memory Allocation Debugger) has been removed.
32 - Large file support enabled by default.
33 - Shift-F5 and Shift-F6 copy and rename like F5 and F6, but
34 suggest the selected filename as the destination.
35 - File search with contents doesn't use external egrep.
36 - Directories with many files are now reloaded much faster.
37 - Subshell works under Cygwin.
40 - Improved support for ncurses.
41 - Dropped support for the old Curses library.
42 - Colors are enabled on all capable terminals when using S-Lang.
43 - Syntax highlighting now works with ncurses.
46 - Editor files are now stored in ~/.mc/cedit instead of ~/.cedit
47 to avoid collision with Cooledit.
48 - New syntax rules - PHP, Tcl, SQL, DOS batch file.
49 - Editor supports word completion.
52 - Local temporary file is used for uploading via ftpfs/fish only
53 if file is uploaded to the same ftp/fish server.
54 - mcfs support is disabled by default.
55 - Samba configuration and codepage files locations can be
57 - .netrc support in ftpfs is enabled by default.
58 - Viewing zip files could corrupt them.
61 - Added manuals in Spanish, Italian and Russian.
62 - Help files are not distributed, but generated during the
63 build from the manual pages.
68 - Mostly bugfixes and portability fixes. Making things work as they
71 - Text edition improvements.
72 - Ctrl-O supported in the viewer and editor.
73 - Better terminal support. Should not need "Learn Keys" on rxvt
74 and xterm in most cases.
76 - GNOME edition improvements.
77 - Find dialog rewritten.
78 - Editor and viewer ask whether to save modified file when
79 closed from window manager.
82 - New syntax rules - S-Lang, PO files, Octave.
83 - Alt-B goes to matching bracket.
85 - Portability improvements.
86 - Should compile out-of-box on Cygwin and QNX Neutrino.
87 - Can be compiled by BSD make.
88 - Subshell and VFS code are safer and more portable.
90 - Experimental features (disabled by default).
91 - Charset conversion support.
92 - Large (64-bit) file support on 32-bit systems.
97 - Too many new features to list.
99 - This is the last version to be actively maintained. The GNOME
100 edition is in stabilization and maintenance phase only. A new file
101 manager is being written for the GNOME project.
107 - The bookmark code has been completely revamped and now it supports
108 folders. New format for the hot list file.
109 - It is possible to copy a selected path name into the input line
113 - New built in GUI designer to help developers modify the look
114 of the program at run time (no penalty for users).
115 - Many dialog boxes now work.
116 - Right button now pops up a context sensitive action menu.
117 - Added many visual enhancements.
118 - The Tk edition is not yet finished though.
121 - Now we do background copy and move operations.
122 (you can ftp your files in the background now, for example).
124 - Built in text editor
125 - This is an easy to use text editor with pull-down menus.
126 The features it presently supports are: Block copy, move,
127 delete, cut, paste; key for key undo; file insertion; macro
128 definition; regular expression search and replace (and our
129 own scanf-printf search and replace); shift-arrow MSW-MAC
130 text highlighting (for the Linux console only);
131 insert-overwrite toggle; and an option to pipe text blocks
132 through shell commands like indent.
134 Comes with Emacs keybindings as well.
136 mcedit is a link to mc which bring it up in editor mode.
139 - Many fixes and enhancements, better support for proxy
141 - Now we support both active and passive opens.
142 - Estimated time of arrival for ftp transfers.
144 - Much better support for proxies.
145 - ftp URLs now allow a password to be provided.
147 - ext2fs Undelete File system
148 - Minor enhancements.
151 - Now we flush the tarfs if the tar file has been modified
153 - External File systems:
154 - Speeded up RPM file system.
155 - New LHA file system.
156 - New ARC file system.
157 - New DEB file system (for those users of Debian).
158 - New RAR file system.
159 - Fixed problems with different zipfs.
162 - We get can use a mc file system by using either mc: or mc:// prefixes.
165 - Now we include a program that preprocesses mail if you view it
166 so, you get colored mails in the viewer.
167 - A simple ruler has been implemented (press Alt-r to enable it).
170 - Now you can do hex editions in your files with a single keystroke.
171 (invoke it by using the hex-viewer and then clicking on edit).
174 - Now we can search inside files using a piped grep (particularly
175 interesting to search inside virtual file system: tar files,
176 tar files on remote ftp sites, or searching information on an
180 - Input lines now support control-left, control-right movement on the
184 - We now support extra entries in a given rule with the Include=
188 - Windows NT, Windows 95 by Juan Grigera
189 - OS/2 by Alexander Dong.
192 - Many many many bug fixes and memory leaks have been fixed.
197 - External File system:
198 - Mtools file system works.
199 - New Cpio file system.
200 - New RPM file system.
203 - support for HSC firewall
205 - Lots of subshell fixes
208 - Editing of non-local files works now.
210 - Bunch of bug fixes.
212 - Panelize now works properly.
214 - Can work on Nextstep now.
216 - Windows NT port by Juan Grigera.
218 - Midnight Commander file system server:
219 - Fixed errno handling in the server.
220 - Fixed time handling in the server.
222 - Works with PAM if supported on the system.
226 This has been finished:
229 - Displays progress bars.
230 - Supports Netware and Windows NT servers
231 - Better support for symlinked files.
232 - Handles those warez sites file names.
233 - Increase the directory cache timeout.
234 - Cache flushing (C-r)
235 - If you append a /~ to the directory, you will log into your home
236 directory (this is done by default if you use the menus to connect).
238 - Subshell fixes (it should not hang any longer).
239 - Fixes prompt handling for zsh and tcsh users.
240 - Fixes variable expansion for tcsh (now you may edit files).
241 - Rewrote the sync code between the parent and child, should not hang
243 - Better command completion.
244 - Keypad handling enhanced:
245 - Special key treatment for +, -, \ and now may be configure to
246 only take place if you do not have a command typed in.
247 - Now the + and \ bindings when ran on the Linux console work
248 may use the keypad and M-+ and M-\ and leave the + and \ keys
250 - Better handling of the line drawing chars on OSF/1 and AIX.
251 - Enhanced tar/compressed tar file systems.
253 - Added undelete feature for Linux systems: now you may recover deleted files
254 on ext2 file systems with the Undelete file system.
255 - Symlink commands (for symlink lovers).
256 see the docs on C-x C-r, C-x C-l, C-x C-s keystrokes.
258 %b and %B return the basename of the selected filename
259 %var{ENV-VAR} expands to the contents of ENV-VAR variable.
260 - MC may be invoked as a viewer (mc -f flag).
261 - Added Unicode support on the Linux console (run with mc -N)
262 - Tons of bug fixes, the code is cleaner and hopefully
263 - Allow a vfs pathname to be passed as a startup directory.
265 This is a list of people that put their effort into making the 3.1
268 Adam Tla/lka, Antonio Palama, Carl Thompson, Ching Hui, Dugan Porter, Gerd
269 Knorr, Ilya Rybkin, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Juan Grigera, Juan Jose
270 Ciarlante, John Davis, Marcelo Fabian Roccasalva, Perry Francis Nguyen,
271 Sergey Ya Korshunoff Steven Hirsch, Thanh Ma and Torben Fjerdingstad.
275 This has been finished:
277 - Virtual File System: You now can browse tar, compressed tar and
278 file systems over the network as if they were local subdirectories;
279 - Slang support, you don't need ncurses anymore (but you can still compile
280 with ncurses, if you want).
281 - New mc.ext format, for details see the sample mc.ext file provided.
282 - Append option if you try to copy/move a file onto already existing one.
283 - Internal cd command uses CDPATH variable if set (like in BASH).
284 - Find file command is much faster.
285 - External panelize command - finding files using unlimited number of
286 criteria - actually spawns an external command and it can be find, awk,
287 grep -l or anything else.
288 - Learn keys makes setting up of mc on terminals with broken
289 terminfo/termcap databases easier. It just asks you to press keys which
291 - Advanced chown command.
292 - C-PgUp and C-PgDn takes you to the previous and currently selected
293 directory respectively on the Linux console.
294 - You can choose between 7 data bits, iso-latin-1 (0-127+160-255) or
296 - Confirmation for overwriting, deleting and exiting added.
297 - Viewer has growing buffers.
298 - Filename, username, hostname and variable completion (M-Tab) on all
299 input lines plus command completion on appropriate places of command
301 - Following of symlinks at changing directory.
302 - Viewer now supports bold faces and underlines, and it fits the
303 information on the screen better. Now you can also specify the starting
304 mode for the viewer depending on the contents of the viewed file.
305 - Mask rename and copy.
306 - Colors now let you specify the intensity of the colors you want.
308 This is being worked on:
309 - Virtual File System: FTP file system.
310 - Tcl/Tk and XView versions of the program (preliminary versions are
316 Now users are able to define their own display
318 - User defined display formats.
320 Now you can configure the file display to suit your needs.
321 For example, you can say which information you want to see displayed
322 instead of our defaults.
324 - User definable program layout.
326 Panels could be shown vertically or horizontally;
327 panels could be different sizes, you can hide or show most
328 program windows (command line, keybar or menubar).
332 Now, it's possible to see part of the last program output on the Linux
333 console without having to switch screens via an option in the layout
338 Quick view: as you browse your files, each one is displayed on
339 the other panel on the idle time.
341 Tree view: let's you browse your directories by traveling a tree.
342 We have two traveling modes available. And the tree does
343 not take your precious time: it's build on the fly, as you
344 browse your disk (you can always loose your time if you
347 Info view: Gives you information on the currently select file and
348 the current file system as you move.
350 User view: Let's you define a directory listing and the format you
353 - New subshell support (concurrent shell execution)
355 The Midnight Commander will now spawn one copy of the shell, so you
356 get better performance and you can use shell functions, define variables
357 and execute complete shell commands. Supported shells: bash, zsh and
358 tcsh. If your shell is not supported, then the old mode is still
363 Almost all the new configuration options are configured with this
364 new dialog manager, easy to use if you are familiar with dialog boxes
367 Available widgets: check buttons, buttons, radio buttons,
368 input lines and list boxes (So you can take our code and use it on
371 - New option configuration.
373 Now the program options are configured with a dialog box.
375 - Chmod and Chown commands:
377 For changing permissions as well as ownership of files and
378 directories, uses our new dialog manager.
380 - Color customization support
382 Now you can change the default color of the program with any of
384 environment variable, Colors section in the init file (colors per
385 terminal type) and command line.
387 - User menu and extension enhancements:
389 Execution understand the %t macro (tagged files).
391 User menu also has a new macro to let the user specify options.
393 You can hide and show entries in the user menus by using conditions.
395 Auto detect best match depending on a regexp.
399 horizontal scrolling,
400 on the fly decompression (and we don't eat unneeded cycles of CPU),
401 allow non gunzip operation.
403 - Internal move command:
405 Now, we don't rely anymore on system commands in /bin, so the
406 program is more robust and is much faster. Bunches of code come
407 from the GNU fileutils.
409 - The Tree view and normal views allows wrapped incremental searches of
414 Now it's possible to do things like rename *.pas in *.bak
416 - Compare directories command
418 - Allow panels to be in Long mode without forcing the user to a single panel.
420 (You can even have two long panels).
422 - F10, C-g cancels as well as ESC ESC.
424 - Improved help system.
426 We updated and spelled the help system and added a lots of links.
427 The Web page is constructed with the same tools.
429 - Allows tagging of directories:
431 Now you can copy, rename, move and delete complete directories. You
432 are not limited anymore to files.
434 - View output (screen save/restore) on Linux console.
436 On old Linux systems, only b&w is supported, on newer Linux systems
437 (1.1.67 and newer), we also support color screen save/restore and
440 - 8 bit clean support.
442 - Visual feedback while i-searching files.
444 - Much more intuitive, you have to use it.
446 - It's better than aspirin.
448 - New memory allocation debugger.
450 During testing time, we used a powerful memory allocation debugger,
451 so the program will not eat all your memory, and will make a good use of
454 - Now it also runs on hppa-hp-hpux9, hppa-hp-hpux7, m68k-apple-aux and
455 sparc-sun-netbsd1.0. The best platform to run it is Linux, of course,
456 since that's where most of us develop it.
460 - Nice progress status indicator.
462 We have two of them: a moving dash indicator and a progress bar
463 indicator for file operations.
468 Currently, it has been ported to this configurations:
477 - Improvements to the internal file viewer:
481 Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh).
482 Performance enhancements, now it's much faster.
483 Works on systems without mmap.
485 - Mouse Support now also works on xterms.
486 If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server
487 to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky
488 and can use the mouse support when using xterms.
490 - Help system and man page.
491 Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the
492 help system can also be used with a mouse.
494 - If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program
495 you ran by using the C-o key combination.
497 - Switch panels command (C-u)
498 - With filter command per panel.
499 - With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature.
500 - cd now expands tildes (~, ~user).
501 - Much more portable.
502 - Many bugs were fixed.
506 - Now can handle directories with an unlimited number of files.
507 - New link and symlink commands (C-x l, C-x s).
508 - New insert tagged files or selection command (C-x t).
512 - Behave more like the Norton Commander.
513 - Added menu file edit.
514 - If there is no permission to load a directory, now it loads a dummy
516 - When a panel is re-sorted, keep the selected file selected.
517 - forward_word and backward_word command on the input line now skip
518 over letters and numbers.
519 - Fixed backward scrolling in the internal viewer.
520 - The internal viewer now computes the percentage in a more natural
522 - Added handling of the Home and End keys to the internal viewer
527 - Preliminary support for System V compilation.
528 - Bug fix: didn't call closedir in all cases.
534 - Corrected Makefile.
538 - Added new Alt-G, Alt-H, Alt-J to select the top file, middle file
539 and bottom file in the current panel.
540 - Now it's allowed to select option in query boxes by the first initial
541 - Fixed mouse repeat rate.
542 - Fixed a bug that prevent copying individual files to another file.
543 - Some minor bug fixes.
548 - Internal Copy command (it no longer uses cp).
549 - Verbose Copying of files.
550 - Confirmation on Overwrite and on Delete.
551 - Support reverse sorting.
552 - Many visual enhancements.
553 - Per panel options are saved and restored.
554 - New truncation of names in the panels.
555 - History in Input Lines (M-p and M-n).
556 - Input line enhancements.
557 - Dialog boxes are nicer than before.
558 - Cache in gid and uid translators.
559 - More keybindings for the Input lines.
560 - Better kill management in Input Lines.
565 - The online help now comes with the complete man page.
566 - Input lines now support M-b and M-f for movement by word.
567 - Unlimited input lines (command line).
568 - Filename searches now must be started with C-s or M-s.
573 - The stat() reloading optimization is now a configuration option.
574 - Many bug fixes went to the find file command.
575 - New history in the hypertext viewer.
576 - ESC-Tab will copy the name of the other-panel selected file to the
578 - Now it's possible to display files and directories mixed together or
579 separated (like the Norton Commander).
580 - Many bug fixes, see the ChangeLog for details.
584 - Extension dependent execution implemented (now you can execute
585 things like tar tzvf over compressed tar files, just a tap in the
587 - Added simple expansion of useful variables in the user menu.
588 - Avoid unnecessary reloading of subdirectories using stat (suggested
589 by Torben Fjerdingstad <tfj@olivia.ping.dk>).
590 - Added options to disable colors and display version number.
591 - Allow start up directory specification (ex: mc /usr/local/bin /tmp).
592 - Fixed bug that operated on the selection instead of the tagged file
593 (when only one file was tagged).
594 - Some cosmetic changes.
599 - Fixed bug in the help browser that crashed the program.
600 - New internal viewer.
601 - New long directory listing format.
606 - User Menus (F2 key).
607 - Quick search of files in a panel (Alt-filename takes you to that file).
608 - Char quoting (C-q).
609 - exec() enhancements.
610 - now you can suspend the program (C-z).
611 - The find file command now seems to be very stable.
616 - Setup loading/saving.
617 - Support for any size screen.
618 - Many, many bug fixes.