Lister for text/hex formats

[MVV]

It is a big problem on Android to show binary contents for files, especially for large ones, so it would be very nice to have a HEX viewer in TC allowing to see files of arbitrary size (also search for hex sequences).

Also often I need a text viewer, but currently I have to open text files in TC editor, scroll them down, send some curses to the popped on-screen keyboard, remove accidentally typed characters and view file in a half of screen because of the keyboard... So it would be great to have read-only viewer for text files by default, and then to switch to edit mode (or to an editor) on demand (there is a Color Notes app that opens notes as read-only first, and then switches to edit mode on tap, and it is a very nice feature).

[ghisler(Author)]

Currently it's not planned. There are already hex viewers/editors for Android, which you could put on a button in TC.

The way Lister works isn't feasible on Android because it's based on a fixed length (in characters, not pixels) line. But 80 character lines are usually too long for Android devices. Making word breaks based on pixel width is very slow - you can see it by the load times in the editor for larger files...

[DrShark]

The way Lister works isn't feasible on Android because it's based on a fixed length (in characters, not pixels) line. But 80 character lines are usually too long for Android devices.

What about different default line length (maybe 30 characters instead of 80)?

[ghisler(Author)]

This would rip apart many documents like source code.

[DrShark]

Maybe for certain types of documents it won't look nice, but if it will make it possible to see text files of larger size than currently allowed by Editor, I think implementing Lister worth it.