What's new in V 16 SR1
Mar 9, 2020
- New features in Version 16 SR1 are:
- Copy Current Line command added to the Edit menu (Ctrl+Y)
- Shift+click on CSV column header to select entire column
- Touch command added to the Folder context menu
- SR1 also fixes the following problems:
- Arrow keys were not always working at the top and bottom of a chunk
- Switching between CSV and non-CSV mode did not always maintain the file position
- CSV/Grid header was not refreshed if the file was refreshed
- Window position would drift if opened on a second monitor with the Windows taskbar on the left
- Empty folders in ZIP files were not being displayed
- V would sometimes crash when displaying folders with very long names
New in V 14 (May 31, 2013)
- The main new feature in V14 is the ability to view CSV files as tables.
- Other minor features include:
- RE to match path (instead of name) option added to Find Files/GREP. This option matches the regular expression mask against the fully qualified file path instead of just the file name.
- Better recognition of UTF-8 files
- Will now look for 4DOS descriptions in .description as well as descript.ion
- Zip/Tar/Cab/BZip now works on files with Unicode file names
- Fixed FolderTab display when folder name contains "&"
- Improved crash diagnostics in the crash file
- x64 version now uses ipworkszip9.dll for ZIP functionality
- A portable x64 version
New in V 13 (Jan 16, 2012)
- The major new features are:
- Spanish, French and Russian language interfaces can now be selected from the new Language tab of Preferences.
- An experimental Bioinformatics/DNA search which lets you search for amino acid strings and IUPAC codes in files containing DNA sequences.
- Support for XMIT and AWS files (used in IBM mainframe environments).
- Other minor changes include:
- Better support for Unicode files containing Asian characters.
- The ability to change the font used by the Directory/Mask/Device boxes and by the FolderTabs.
- A change in name from "V - The File Viewer" to "The V File Viewer".
New in V 11 (Jul 2, 2010)
- A change to the way V scrolls a document with the introduction of a current line marker
- Introduction of more traditional bookmarking (Ctrl+F2/F2)
- File Masks can now be used to filter directory names
- Improved support for Windows 7/Vista (including better support for themes)
New in V 10 Service Release 1 (Jan 25, 2010)
- Deleting files from the search results could cause V to crash
- Assigning a command to a single letter (eg, 'c') could sometimes cause V to ignore the following keystroke(s)
- In GreenBar mode the green lines were not always drawn correctly if the window had been scrolled
- Double-clicking on a FolderTab goes to its root (for locked tabs that allow subfolder browsing)
- You can now search folders with commas in their names (by enclosing the folder name in double quotes)
New in V 9 Service Release 1 (Jan 25, 2010)
- Service Release 1 adds the following:
- A Network/UNC Timeout (in the Directory Options)
- "Insert Date into Name" option in File Name Modify
- It also fixes the following problems:
- V9 would sometimes crash if GridLines were being used
- Searching for hex (binary) data did not always work
New in V 8 Service Release 1 (Jan 25, 2010)
- V8 would sometimes crash when displaying the Recent Files menu
- V8 would not always unzip gzip (.gz) files correctly
- V8 would sometimes crash after renaming a network folder in the Explorer tree
New in V 7.2 Service Release 2 (Jan 25, 2010)
- Service Release 2 fixes the problem where V incorrectly displays that it needs to be upgraded.
New in V 7.2 Service Release 1 (Jan 25, 2010)
- Regular Expressions can now be used to modify filenames
- Several options (like the current line number) can now be passed to the user-defined editor (configured in the Editor tab of Preferences)
- An "XP (numerical) Sort" option (in the Directory tab of Preferences) which sorts filenames "alphanumerically" - instead of alphabetically