Hi,
does anyone knows a free text viewer with navigation pane?
The idea is to have a file navigation pane and as we move through the text files in a folder (using the cursor arrow keys) we could see the text file on another pane immediately displayed.
Many years ago I had a tiny utility like that I think it was X-Find from Xteq but stop working properly on windows 10.
I could do such an utility but I'm so lazy
thanks,
Alvaro
Free text viewer with navigation pane
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Re: Free text viewer with navigation pane
Try vscode. You can press "split editor right" icon to view different files.
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Re: Free text viewer with navigation pane
You are asking that in a coders forum. Do you need that to navigate source code? If so, there are better tools, e.g. https://www.sourcetrail.com/ (open source) or https://about.sourcegraph.com/pricing (free license).
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Re: Free text viewer with navigation pane
The Xfind.exe works if I rightclick and start the problem solver.
Windows will then use win8 compat mode.
Trying to install it with the .ini does not seem to do anything.
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Windows will then use win8 compat mode.
Trying to install it with the .ini does not seem to do anything.
Best
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Re: Free text viewer with navigation pane
Thank you all.
The idea is to quickly navigate through games from a test match as the match goes on. I want a fast way of looking at the result of each game, which is at the top of each game file.
X-find almost works, because every time I select a file the focus switches from the file navigation pane to the file display pane.
So I have always to use the mouse to come back to select another file.
All I wanted is to use just the up and down arrow keys to quickly move through the games and have a glance at the top section of each game.
Again thanks I'm going to test each suggestion.
best regards,
Alvaro
The idea is to quickly navigate through games from a test match as the match goes on. I want a fast way of looking at the result of each game, which is at the top of each game file.
X-find almost works, because every time I select a file the focus switches from the file navigation pane to the file display pane.
So I have always to use the mouse to come back to select another file.
All I wanted is to use just the up and down arrow keys to quickly move through the games and have a glance at the top section of each game.
Again thanks I'm going to test each suggestion.
best regards,
Alvaro
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Re: Free text viewer with navigation pane
In vscode you can open the files first, then you can navigate thru the files by the keys Ctrl+Tab. Hold the Ctrl key and press Tab repeatedly or press the Up/Down arrow key to select the specific file.Cardoso wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:06 pm Thank you all.
The idea is to quickly navigate through games from a test match as the match goes on. I want a fast way of looking at the result of each game, which is at the top of each game file.
X-find almost works, because every time I select a file the focus switches from the file navigation pane to the file display pane.
So I have always to use the mouse to come back to select another file.
All I wanted is to use just the up and down arrow keys to quickly move through the games and have a glance at the top section of each game.
Again thanks I'm going to test each suggestion.
best regards,
Alvaro
Notepad++ is also a good text viewer/editor, but vscode can handle 1Gb file just fine.
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Re: Free text viewer with navigation pane
Hello Alvaro! After reading this discussion I decided to polish a little tool that I have made. In case you wish to take a look, it's here:
https://github.com/rchastain/textview
Regards.
Roland
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TextView 0.0.2
Hello!
A new version of TextView is available.
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Any comment or suggestion is welcome.
Regards.
Roland
A new version of TextView is available.
- New project icon
- Automatic conversion of text encoding to UTF-8
- Buttons for increasing or decreasing font size
- Button for starting another instance of TextView
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Any comment or suggestion is welcome.
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Roland
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