browse text files

[colore]

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]

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

[colore]

thanks!

XnView cannot do it, right?

[Drahken]

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]

—> colore

Hello !

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

KR
Claude
Clo

[Dreamer]

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

[Drahken]

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]

—> 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]

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]

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]

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]

thank you very much

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