handy tool - txtcollector, and two questions

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 31, 2019 at 01:16 PM

Thanks for the link to Txtcollector; it may well prove handy!

jimspoon wrote:
>I would like to find a file manager with a viewer pane that is also an
>editor - anybody know of one?

I assume that you are in WIndows (since Txtcollector is a Windows programme). I know that Xplorer2 https://www.zabkat.com/x2facts.htm offers this functionality. There may well be others.

The alternative is to find a text editor with an integrated file manager pane. Some have already been mentioned above. Indeed, “projects” in programmers’ editors represent whole trees of files, directly accessible and editable. You may want to check out Visual Studio in this regard https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/8060/0/visual-studio-code-for-outlining-and-crimping

If you find the above a bit too heavy, you may want to check out TextPad https://www.textpad.com/ It’s not free, but its price is quite moderate, particularly given the current GBP exchange rate (the reasons of which are not suitable for discussing at a civil forum such as this one…)

>Even better, it would be great I could find a text editor into which I
>could load many files at once, with all files appearing consecutively in
>a single window, with some kind of visual indication of the boundary
>between each file. Each file could then be edited by browsing through
>the single “virtual file” and making edits. When the “virtual file” is
>saved, the changes would be saved to each of the individual text files
>that makes up the “virtual file”. I seem to recall that the Sense
>editor had some kind of capability like this?

It’s quite interesting that such a wish—or variations thereof—appears here once in a decade or so, and the answer remains the same… See here for more:
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/messages/viewm/19171

What the Sense editor can do is rather different, i.e. to show various views of the same document.