Akuli/porcupine v0.99.0

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I'm excited about this release. It has lots of awesome improvements, and several people have contributed to it. Thanks to all contributors!

New features:

• The run plugin has been rewritten. If you previously used it only for running Python code in a terminal by pressing F5, that will still work, although it can do a lot more. Press Shift+F5 to get started. My favorite feature is running commands so that their output goes to the Porcupine window, and things like File "foo.py", line 52 become clickable links.
• Files in the directory tree can now be cut/pasted and copy/pasted by right-clicking them or with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. Thank you nicolafan.
• The right-click menu of the directory tree now contains git add and a couple other Git operations.
• There is a new button "Jump to definition" in the Edit menu. For example, if you have a method call like foo.bar() in a Python program and you put the cursor on top of bar, this will take you to the line of code that looks like def bar(self, .... The functionality itself isn't new, but it is now in the menubar, so it's easier to discover.

Bug fixes:

• Right-clicking and middle-clicking now works on MacOS. Thank you 1anakin20 for fixing this.
• The Windows installer now shows a very clear error message if you try to run it on a 32-bit Windows. Previously it would extract some files and then fail without a good error message. Thank you Mannuel25 for noticing this.
• When right-clicking a folder in the directory tree, one of the menu items is "Open in file manager". It now works on Windows.
• When uninstalling on Windows, Porcupine no longer deletes the whole directory chosen when installing it with the Windows installer. This means that the uninstaller will behave sanely even if you accidentally install Porcupine directly into C:\Program Files as opposed to e.g. C:\Program Files\Porcupine. You don't have to worry about this if you didn't choose a custom directory when installing Porcupine.
• Porcupine no longer kills git status if it runs for more than 2 seconds. This hopefully prevents errors where Git complains about a lock file (issue #885). Porcupine runs git status internally to figure out how to color files in the directory tree, e.g. green for git added.

Other improvements:

• Porcupine now uses a dark theme by default, although you won't notice it if you have chosen a custom theme. To change the theme, there is a new button in the Porcupine Settings dialog (in Edit menu), and the old Syntax Colors menu has been removed.
• Many small UI details have been improved. For example, many buttons are now wider than before, so it's easier to click them. Thank you rdbende.
• You can now uncheck Python virtualenvs after right-clicking them in the directory tree. This means that you can choose to not use a virtualenv even if the project has one. This is useful if something isn't working, and you suspect there might be something wrong with the virtualenv.
• On Windows, Python virtualenvs now show up as selected immediately after selecting them in the directory tree.
• Files whose name starts with a dot are now grouped after other files in the directory tree. Previously they were first, which is annoying, as these files are by convention hidden and usually you want to ignore them. Thank you nicolafan for fixing this.
• Porcupine no longer comes with pycodestyle, so you should get less yellow underlines when editing Python files. Nowadays many Python projects use black, so enforcing pycodestyle's coding style doesn't make sense.
• You now get a warning if you try to open a huge file. Previously Porcupine would open it without checking the size, and in the worst possible case, freeze the whole computer. Thank you rdbende for fixing this.
• A few smaller improvements and fixes that I don't expect most users to notice.