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Hi!

In the text viewer it would be nice if we have a line-numbers bar - to help software developers! Thanks

nistvan_ro wrote:[...] to help software developers

For such special text features I use Scite as alternative Viewer / Editor: small, fast, no installation, text highlighting, and much more.

Yes, I like SciTE too

KNUT wrote: For such special text features I use Scite as alternative Viewer / Editor: small, fast, no installation, text highlighting, and much more.

Yes, for editing text-like files I use other than notepad.exe editor (in my case I use other great Czech editor PsPad )

But I strongly agree with nistvan_ro to add line-numers bar into the View, because the viewer in Salamander is pretty fast

I use F3 as a quick view.

Jan Rysavy wrote:Yes, I like SciTE too

It is solution for editing but not for quick view.

ino wrote:But I strongly agree with nistvan_ro to add line-numers bar into the View, because the viewer in Salamander is pretty fast

We want to re-write the internal text viewer from the scratch. Support for unicode, utf, syntax highlighting, line numbers, caret for keyboard selection, separate it to plugin, etc. It's a very high priority for us, but it will take from 4 to 6 months

Jan Rysavy wrote:separate it to plugin

Is there a possibility to include Scite as a "text viewer / editor" plug in?
It prevents you from rewriting the viewer from the scratch.

Scite (Scintilla) is open source - isn't it!?!?

KNUT wrote:

Jan Rysavy wrote:separate it to plugin

Is there a possibility to include Scite as a "text viewer / editor" plug in?
It prevents you from rewriting the viewer from the scratch.

Scite (Scintilla) is open source - isn't it!?!?

Probably it would be possible, but I can say that it loads a bit slow if you're using it just for viewing. And I have a P4 with 1Gigs of ram... Still good idea 'though.

KNUT wrote: Is there a possibility to include Scite as a "text viewer / editor" plug in?
It prevents you from rewriting the viewer from the scratch.

SciTE is a text editor. Servant Salamander's internal viewer is highly optimized for speed (even on files over 4GB barrier).

Jan Rysavy wrote:We want to re-write the internal text viewer from the scratch. Support for unicode, utf, syntax highlighting, line numbers, caret for keyboard selection, separate it to plugin, etc....

Nice to hear this since i use F3 often too

Additionally i suggest an search-line as in ListXP too.
http://www.listxp.com/index.html

In the meantime, I recommend V... a great text viewer:

http://www.fileviewer.com

It isn't free, but isn't over-priced, either, and has many useful features. Supports EBCDIC!

Don't be put off by the dull screen shots... all colors are adjustable.

Jan Rysavy wrote:

ino wrote:But I strongly agree with nistvan_ro to add line-numers bar into the View, because the viewer in Salamander is pretty fast

We want to re-write the internal text viewer from the scratch. Support for unicode, utf, syntax highlighting, line numbers, caret for keyboard selection, separate it to plugin, etc. It's a very high priority for us, but it will take from 4 to 6 months

That is awesome news.

In the mean time, would it be possible to implement a "Go to line number" function? Even Notepad can do that.
The whole line could be selected to show the exact line.