I'm looking for a TXT editing Viewer plugin. I found some old, confusing threads about source code editing plugins. I checked this page and the only edit-capable plugin listed is "Source Code Viewer", with a dead link. pretentiousname.com/opus_plu ... index.html
My goal is to do simple viewing and editing of plain text files in the viewer pane at the same time I can rename the files. Any options? In other words, usually if a TXT file is opened by Notepad or some other text editor, it can't be renamed by DOpus while it's open. I want to use DOpus' powerful renaming tools while a file is being viewed and edited.
From a 2012 post by leo:
"We might add a simple text editor to Opus one day (or someone else could by writing a viewer plugin, like the old Source Code Viewer plugin which used Scintilla as the editor, but has since been abandoned)."
That's one of the features I really miss. We have metaedit but no simple texteditor. Of course tags etc. belongs more to the functionality of a filemanager than a texteditor (you also can't edit doc etc. and no one expect such a feature), but an ASCII-textfile is something "between" and a basic function of a computer. I often have a description which is to large for file-description or needs to be quickly viewed on a non-DO environment.
This is a great idea. It would be really convenient to easily change some plain text files directly in the viewer pane.
I have had seen many new DOpus users asking me why the viewer pane does not automatically detect URLs or at least shows the line numbers. For me it looks as the current viewer pane has been somewhat neglected in the last years (unfortunately). It's somekind surprising that this feature-less viewer pane is surrounded by such a feature-rich filemanager!
The nicest would be DO working together with Notepad++ - it's free, portable and includes more useful features (e.g. search & replace, script-langs, verify...) than a plain editor. And it exists over years with frequent updates.
There are plenty very nice looking Java based frameworks for text viewing / editing including syntax highlighting etc. If somebody can write a Java bridge for the DOpus plugin API it would only take a few (Java) lines of code to create a full-featured text viewer plugin. And since the most recent Java 8 native look & feel actually provides a user interface that looks like native UI code nobody will see the difference.
