V2.40

The following changes have been completed since the release of v2.30 and are included in v2.40:

New Features

• Support includes in user menu files.
• Unix port (Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris).
• Win64 port.
• Use Unicode for all file names on Windows & Unix.
• Syntax highlighting in the viewer.
• Viewer and editor support for Unicode text files.
• Symbolic link support in Unix & Windows.
  • Panels display a link's target.
  • Ctrl-Shift-F5 creates a link.
  • F8-Delete knows not to recurse into a link to a directory.
  • Links to files require Windows Vista or later. Directory links require Windows 2000 or later and NTFS
• Support for 7zip archives.
• Support for bzip2 files.
• Scroll back viewer to browse previous program output (Only enabled for unix by default).
• File Information display (Ctrl-I) shows complete file metadata.
• OS/2 & Windows: Ctrl-Shift-E to eject removable media & Ctrl-Shift-L to load.
• Unix: Ctrl-M displays mount point selection list with eject function

Minor Enhancements

• Change the search match highlight colour in the viewer from "Menu Bar" to "Highlight" which is consistent with the editor and more sensible.
• Preserve the case of environment variable names.
• Case insensitive matching is now Unicode based so will work with all languages.
• Allow re-sorting of File Find results before search has finished.
• Use a separate thread to update the file copy progress box to reduce flicker and improve copy speed.
• Editor: line length limit of 64kB removed.
• Windows: Don't query CWD of network drives at startup.
• Windows: Resolve subst'd drives when determining if a file can be moved without copy/delete.
• Added new syntax highlighting directive, "statechange" which allows more flexible state transitions.
• Added includes in syntax defintion file.
• Add support for Unicode file names in RAR archives.
• TAR file support improvements
  • Fix checksum calculation when there are bytes in the header >127.
  • Interpret file names as UTF-8.
• Added field in File Find to specify the code page used when searching files for the "Containing" string.
• Copy/Move: Add ability to specify overwrite mode in the initial dialog so that you don't have to wait for the first collision to occur.
• Add !lf operator to provide a list of tagged files with their full path.
• Add !tf (tagged file with full path).
• Add ability to remove an entry from command history with Delete key.
• Syntax Highlighter: Add /w flag for syntax states of "word scope" to assist with LISP keywords.
• Syntax Highlighter: Enable word characters to be redefined for each state.

Bug Fixes

• User Menu: Make menu item hot key work if specified in lower case in the mnu file. This used to work in 2.20 but was broken while adding support for sub-menus.
• Fix display of hex view when code page translation is active. Was "translating" the vertical bar separators.
• Fix file copy ETA overflowing copy progress dialog & causing screen corruption when a huge file copy starts off slowly.
• In Change Case, mixed mode should not capitalise the character after an apostrophe.
• In viewer, fix background colour of line continuation markers (right arrow at the end of a line that's longer than the window when unwrapped).
• Windows: Fix "Overwrite All Older" option on windows when using CopyFileEx.
• Multi-file search/replace confirmation prompt, extend box width if necessary to fit the text values and don't overflow box if text still won't fit.
• Fix !F when opposite panel is showing an archive's contents.
• Fix !t behaviour in archives.

If you haven't been keeping up to date you might like to see what was New in V2.30

Return to File Commander Home Page