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Depeche View
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full text search.
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The Depeche View fast search tool loads all text file content from a folder into memory. Search 30000 files in 3 seconds. Find as you type, copy or bookmark text with a single click. Analyze huge amounts of Open Source code, log or documentation files in realtime.
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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 Freeware.
- no installation. instant use!
- ideal for your usb stick.
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The Extended Edition provides additional features
like direct reading of Zip and Jar contents.
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The current version is 1.3.8 (changelist).
You may also download from sourceforge
or CNet.
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: make sure Wine is installed, then type "wine dview.exe -linux dirname".
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 4000 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 sfk forum. Please prefix your subject with "dview: ".
Due to spamming, anonymous posts are no longer possible; 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.
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