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Request: Internal Text Viewer - fixed line length
Posted: 17 Feb 2006, 17:32
by bback
I often have to work with EBCDIC files, and the internal viewer is able to display them (really nice!). But most of this files have a mainframe format of 80 byte fixed length records (lines), without any line separator!
It would be great if I could advise the viewer to wrap each line exactly after 80 (or X) bytes, that allows me to look into those files easily. Currently I have to enable line wrapping and I resize the viewer window until 80 characters are shown on a line *g*.
As this should be easy to implement I would love to see it soon
Thanks!!!
bback - registered user.
Re: Request: Internal Text Viewer - fixed line length
Posted: 18 Feb 2006, 20:49
by grymmjack
bback wrote:I often have to work with EBCDIC files, and the internal viewer is able to display them (really nice!). But most of this files have a mainframe format of 80 byte fixed length records (lines), without any line separator!
It would be great if I could advise the viewer to wrap each line exactly after 80 (or X) bytes, that allows me to look into those files easily. Currently I have to enable line wrapping and I resize the viewer window until 80 characters are shown on a line *g*.
As this should be easy to implement I would love to see it soon
Thanks!!!
bback - registered user.
In the interim, you could use a 3rd party application to do such. UltraEdit(Definitely) and Crimson Editor(I am pretty sure about this) both support soft wrapping at a given column that is configurable.
Posted: 19 Feb 2006, 10:22
by bback
And these ditors support EBCDIC (its not ASCII) ???
Posted: 27 Feb 2006, 11:10
by Petr Solin
It's not so trivial as it seems.
It needs new view mode (wrapped on custom text length), so many little things to be done. If we receive more requests, we'll consider it.
I have one tip for you: open Viewer, go to menu Options > Configuration, set "Save on close" in section "Window position". Then you will not need to set proper window width each time you display EBCDIC file.
Posted: 27 Feb 2006, 15:37
by jis
Petr Solin wrote:I have one tip for you: open Viewer, go to menu Options > Configuration, set "Save on close" in section "Window position". Then you will not need to set proper window width each time you display EBCDIC file.
Nice and easy tip, but don't forgot that with any font change you must have check and probably set the window width again of course.