handy tool - txtcollector, and two questions

Posted by jimspoon
Sep 16, 2019 at 05:46 PM

jimspoon wrote:
>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? Anybody know about this,
>or any other such editor?

Just an update on this part of my inquiry - I had forgotten about Depeche View, which does display many files in a single stream, with delimiters between each file. I didn’t think it had editing functions too, I need to look into that - here’s the link:

http://stahlworks.com/dev/depeche-view.html?r=dvinfo-61-2