handy tool - txtcollector, and two questions

Posted by jimspoon
Sep 16, 2019 at 05:00 PM

washere wrote:
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.

I don’t really see why it would a problem, seems eminently possible from a programming standpoint. The viewer/editor would show all the loaded text files in a single stream, with say, a dotted line (not an actual part of the text, but just a display element) marking the boundary between the content of one file and another. You could freely move text to a location between two particular dotted lines (the text of file A), to a location between two other dotted lines (the text of file B). Then you could do a save operation. And File A would be saved with the text so deleted, and File B would be saved with the text so added to it.

>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.

Not quite sure I understand how this would work.

>My route is there other way. I have large note files on the phone
>separated by lines made of any number of:
>_______
>or
>——————
>or
>========
> >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.

That is a good strategy, and sometimes I use it myself.

>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?

Windows.