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Depeche View
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Depeche View loads all text files from a folder, showing all content in one window. It is used to search, analyze and edit huge amounts of text (source code, CSV data, log files or documentation) with the smallest possible effort. Portable executable, try the freeware edition without installation!
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- loads thousands of text files in one window.
- instant search as you type, without dialogues.
- search a word just by clicking on it.
- copy a line, create bookmarks with one click.
- integrate with your favourite editor through
self-defined commands on function keys.
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- Depeche View Base is free for private, non-commercial use.
- no installation. instant use!
- ideal for your usb stick.
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The Extended Edition allows instant editing, reloading of changed files, direct reading of Zip, Jar and .tar.bz2 contents, clipboard loading and more.
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The current version is 1.4.2.5 (changelist).
You may also download from sourceforge.
A demo video is available on youtube, searching text across ten thousands of files.
Another large demo video is available on downloadtube.
Under Windows, run the tool through double-click, then click on Open and select a folder
containing many text files. Alternatively, open a command line and type "dview dirname".
Under Linux or Macintosh (i686): make sure Wine 1.1.37 or higher is installed, then type
"wine dview.exe -linux" to run the tool in Linux compatible mode.
Both ways will run Depeche View. The tool will load all text files from the given directory,
and all subdirectories, and display their contents in a single window:
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Example: Browsing a 9000 files Open Source project using Depeche View.
Click here for a fullscreen snapshot in PNG quality.
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Search as you type.
To start searching for a word, just type it. No drop down menus, no filling out
of dialogues, nothing - just type the word. When you stop typing, dview will
search for it, instantly and across all files. In the above example, the word
"description" was typed and searched. The hits are highlighted in red and yellow.
Search as you click.
Another instant way of searching a word is to click on any word within the text.
If you SHIFT+click on the word EXTMGR_FUNC_INIT in the above example,
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Click here for a fullscreen snapshot in PNG quality.
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it is searched instantly, and instantly you jump to the first occurrence, again.
Fly by mouse.
To fly over all hits for the current search, hold SHIFT and turn the mouse wheel down.
you will step over every occurrence in every file. Again, no dialogue boxes,
you don't even have to press any key, e.g. to jump from file to file - nothing.
If you're on a notebook without a mouse, use SHIFT+CURSOR DOWN instead.
New views by a single click.
As said above, a SHIFT+left button click on any word searches it instantly,
within the same window. But what if you want to stay with one piece of text,
and search another word in a second window? Simple: do a right mouse click.
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Click here for PNG quality.
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This example was a right-click onto "Report". Because no second window existed yet,
it was created, and the word searched therein. No dragging around of window edges,
no long and time-wasting size changes - view two parts of text instantly.
Keys sorted by frequency.
Press F1 anytime to switch between multi-view and full screen mode. It's F1 and not
some other key, because switching between these two view modes is the function used
most frequently within Depeche View - therefore it uses the key easiest to reach.
Fully portable application, instant use from USB stick.
No installation. No registry spamming, DLL's or other complicated stuff.
Just copy dview.exe onto your USB stick, and use it instantly where needed.
To change some default behaviour, you may create a config file (example here),
and copy it into the same directory as dview (for example, on your USB stick).
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Further reading: help system contents.
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Help requests, Bug reports and Open discussion:
Can be submitted in the forum. Anonymous posts may or may not be possible,
depending on the amount of spam; if you are required to log in, then please
create a free account at sourceforge, or use your OpenID.
Depeche View is based on swiss file knife technology for loading file trees, and supports
the same options as sfk's snapto command. The free download is available here.
For software download sites: the Depeche View PAD file is available here.
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