If you are running one of the V11 betas, you can upgrade by selecting Check for Updates from the Help menu.
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Download Version 11 (32 bit) (v11.exe - 3,468,984 bytes) |
Download Version 11 (64 bit) (v11-x64.exe - 4,255,416 bytes) |
| What's New in V11? | Installation |
The four main changes to V11 are:
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The setup program will create a backup of your current V.EXE before installing the new version.
Should you have any problems with the new version, you can restore the previous version by selecting Add/Remove Programs from the Control Panel and choosing to modify/change V instead of removing it. |
| New Scrolling Behavior | New Bookmarking Functionality | |||||||||
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Until now, V did not display a caret to indicate the current position when viewing a file.
V11 still doesn't display a caret, but it does now highlight the current line to indicate the current position.
Pressing the Up/Down arrow keys will now move the current line marker (instead of scrolling the window). The window is now only scrolled when the line marker reaches the bottom (or top) of the window. If you prefer the old behavior (where the window would always scroll), enable Always scroll window when using arrow keys in the File Options tab of Preferences. If the window is scrolled using the scroll bars, V will automatically move the current line marker accordingly. If you prefer the current line marker to stay where it is, enable Do not move current line marker when using scroll bars. You can now use the shift keys (eg, Shift+DownArrow, Shift+PageDown) to select text, just as in a text editor. New keys have been defined and some old keys now have new meanings. For example Ctrl+Shift+Home/Ctrl+Shift+End will now move the current line marker to the top/end of the window. If you do not like some of the new key re-assignments, you can change them to your liking by selecting Customize Keyboard from the Tools menu. Note that not all of the keyboard commands have a menu equivalent (eg, Page Down). All these commands appear under Other in the File section of the available commands when customizing the keyboard. |
V11 now allows you to bookmark a line in a file by pressing Ctrl+F2 (pressing Ctrl+F2 again will clear it).
Bookmarked lines will be displayed in a different color. When multiple lines have been bookmarked, pressing F2 will take you to the
next bookmark and pressing Shift+F2 will take you to the previous bookmark. All bookmarks can be cleared by pressing Ctrl+Shift+F2 or by
selecting Bookmarks->Clear All Bookmarks from the Edit menu.
The Search dialog box now contains a Bookmark button. Pressing this button will bookmark all lines that contain the search string. If you are using the Search Bar, you can right-click on the Find Next button (down arrow) to bookmark lines containing the search string. The number of bookmarked lines will be displayed in the status bar. All bookmarked lines can be copied to the clipboard or saved to a file by selecting the corresponding option from the Bookmarks submenu of the Edit menu. By default, V will clear all bookmarks when it exits. If you want the bookmarks saved so they will be available every time you view the file, enable Save Bookmarks on Exit in the File Options tab of Preferences. |
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| File Masks | File Mask Examples | |||||||||
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Until now, file masks only applied to files, not to directories. You can now enter a second mask that will be used to only filter the directory names.
The second mask is entered immediately after the first mask separated by a "|" (vertical bar). If you leave the directory mask blank (ie, enter nothing after the "|"), no directories will be displayed. Similarly, leaving the mask empty before the | will now display no files. |
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