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Pavel Roskin committed Dec 26, 2002
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Changes made after 4.6.0-pre1.

- Polish manual has been added.
- glib is now properly detected on FreeBSD.
- New syntax rules - RPM specfile.
- Support for termnet and HSC firewall has heen removed.
- mc now creates its own temporary directory, separate for each user.
- Support for glib 2.0.x has been added.
- Mouse wheel is supported in the internal editor and viewer in xterm
compatible terminals that implement wheel events correctly.
- mc now complies with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and uses
@prefix@/share/mc for the data files.
- Editor shows control characters in the caret notation.
- Fixed segmentation fault when displaying messages from background
process.
- Screen library is now selected by the option --with-screen.
- Included S-Lang library has been updated to version 1.4.5.
- Fixed viewing and editing files on mcfs.
- 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.
- Behavior of Alt-O is more intuitive now.
- Internal editor now saves the cursor position in the file.
- X11 support is now enabled by default, use --without-x to disable.
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.

- 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.
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