browse text files

colore · Post by **colore** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 2:31 pm

hello

consider "Windows Picture Viewer"

it opens the image files inside a folder and browses throught them by hitting ENTER

hitting DELETE deletes the currently viewed file

is there a program to do this for TXT files?

Drahken · Post by **Drahken** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:15 pm

http://file.aari.nw.ru/Soft/Utility/Text/SpeedReader/

colore · Post by **colore** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:49 am

thanks!

XnView cannot do it, right?

Drahken · Post by **Drahken** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:04 pm

Nope, xnview doesn't seem to be able to open text files. It can show them in the browser, but if you try to open one you get an unknown format error.

Clo · Post by **Clo** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:44 pm

—> colore

Hello !

• But XnView can delete the text-file displayed in the browser from the DEL key…

KR
Claude
Clo

Dreamer · Post by **Dreamer** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:17 pm

I remember the ability to view text files has been removed due to some issue.

Drahken · Post by **Drahken** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:57 pm

Clo- True, but unless you set the thumbnail size extremely high, you can't READ the text file to know whether or not you want to delete it.
Xnview's evil competitor irf~ can read, browse, and delete text files like colore wants.

Clo · Post by **Clo** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:10 am

—> Drahken

Hello !

• But I see and read the file contents in the preview I can enlarge enough!

- As long as it's a plaint text *.txt format (not unsupported Unicode¦UTF8…) there is no problem, and I don't need to edit the file elsewhere to know whether I delete it or not, that seems the point here, except I mistake…

KR
Claude
Clo

Drahken · Post by **Drahken** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:17 am

Hmm... it does open in the preview pane... Weird.
It's slightly different than what colore was looking for, but pretty close. It should work for his needs.

colore · Post by **colore** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:02 pm

Drahken wrote:Clo- True, but unless you set the thumbnail size extremely high, you can't READ the text file to know whether or not you want to delete it.
Xnview's evil competitor irf~ can read, browse, and delete text files like colore wants.

can you give me please link for irf~ ?

Drahken · Post by **Drahken** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:21 pm

There's some bad blood between the 2 programmers, I don't think pierre would appreciate anyone posting a link to it here. Click the "you have [X] messages" link at the top of the page.

btw If you open xnview's browser & navigate to the folder with the txt files, you can read them in the preview pane & use the arrow keys to move to the next one, or the DEL key to delete the current one.

colore · Post by **colore** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:44 pm

thank you very much

by the way, Speedreader is very buggy, I cannot even go to the folder of the text files easily...

XnView Software

browse text files

browse text files

Delete, yes

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