* Somewhat incompatible changes
This release contains a number of changes which are technically non-backwards
compatible. However, all of them should have very little negative impact (i.e.,
hard to notice the change without reading the changelog).
At the same time, a bug, fixing which is likely to have an impact on user
configuration, has been identified but not yet fixed to give a chance to
update all affected vifmrc files. If a bug is likely to be relied on by the
configuration, a dialog with the explanation and instructions will appear.
* Sorting and non-Latin characters
Until this release Vifm has always used byte sorting (effectively, sorting
of UTF-8 byte sequences). From now on a form of Unicode normalization is
applied to strings when sorting views and completion results. The change
can be expanded to other cases in future releases. The measured performance
impact is negligible (several percent).
Practically, this means that characters like a and ä are now grouped
together regardless of the way in which diacritic is being encoded. Some
characters can still appear in weird non-alphabetic positions because full
Unicode normalization results in losing case sensitivity and is therefore
not applied.
* Addressing some longtime woes
For one reason or another some inconvenient peculiarities have accumulated
over the years. Time has come to replace workarounds with something better:
+ global variables (g:var) replace the use of environmental variables
for internal purposes, thus avoiding polluting environment of child processes
+ use of :let to invoke a builtin function discarding its result is
superseded by a proper :call command
+ use of execute 'normal! gl' to run selection now has :open command
as a better alternative
+ size of selection can now be queried via selected() (previous releases
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/utilities/vifm?expand=0&rev=43
