handy tool - txtcollector, and two questions

Posted by washere
Aug 30, 2019 at 06:01 PM

1) Txt editor as you prescribed:

That text editor might not exist. Because you want multi files to be pulled in as a single file. Then changes for different sections saved to original multi files. The big new file is a temporary file, either not saved &/or saved as a new big file. That’s the problem.

You might try database viewers which have nice text editing Windows/panes with regular txt editing functions (usual editor goodies). Then dynamically link the txt files as fields. Or as cells in a spreadsheet that has the same editor niceties. But it’ll be quicker otherwise.

My route is there other way. I have large note files on the phone separated by lines made of any number of:
_______
or
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or
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Then I use an app to cut the big file into multi files where the above line characters occur. Can sort groups of them into relevant subfolders.

What you want would need invisible placeholders to remember which paragraphs belong to what file. Doesn’t exist IMHO. It’ll need rule sets of how to behave too, boundaries might change in editing.

You can look into scripts that pipe text files into editors. But I don’t think they maintain live relationships from chunks to extremal files, again a new big file is created as temp and/or a new big saved file.

2) File manager as you specified:
For Which platform: Windows, Mac, Linux?