Depeche View loads all text files from a folder, showing all content in one window.

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.

Depeche View Lite Load and search up to 1000 files. No Installation, Instant Use. Free for private, non-commercial use. Download

Depeche View Professional Load and search ten thousands of files. (Up to 5000 files in the 15 Days Trial) Instant editing of text files. Search .zip, .tar.gz and .tar.bz2 files. Highlight words and phrases for easy reading. Extendable syntax highlighting. Scripts on hotkeys and extended mouse buttons. Powerful search commands: search for line starts, full words, csv tab separated table columns. Search auto suggest and much more. Free 15 Days Trial Buy Now: $29.95

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:




Example: Browsing a 5000 files Open Source project using Depeche View.

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Ultra High Speed GUI.

     Depeche View comes with a clean, minimalistic GUI, completely different to any other
     application. This is because window fragmentation, scrollbars, dialogues and menus
     are time wasters that make sense only for configuration purposes, but not while you
     need to search or edit something quickly. But read on.

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 a word like EXTMGR_FUNC_INIT, for example,




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     it is searched instantly, and instantly you jump to the first occurrence, again.

Fly over search results.

     To fly over all hits for the current search, hold SHIFT and turn the mouse wheel.
     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.

Fly over text by Grab And Drag.

     To surf over text, click anywhere into the text, keep the left button pressed,
     then pull the mouse down or up. Forget about exact, time-wasting clicks and drags
     of scrollbar buttons. DView gives you touchscreen feeling without a touchscreen!

     By the way, are you scrolling through this text using a scrollbar? Then I recommend
     the Firefox extension grab and drag (not associated with DView or this website)
     which provides the same feeling for web surfing. Read here how to configure.

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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     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 maximized 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.

All results only: the Filtered View.

     Click the  button at the bottom, or press CONTROL+A (All Results) to view all
     text lines that contain your search result. Click into any of those lines to reenter
     normal text display (or press CONTROL+A again).

SHIFT + Mouse = Speed!

     The Depeche View GUI is a radical, new concept which does require some training.

     Meditate a moment on the help text provided by pulldown or popup menus, and learn
     the DView fundamentals of a SHIFT+click (=search), CONTROL+click (=copy)
     and ALT+click (=bookmark) on text.

     Those who master the basics of Depeche View will enter a new dimension
     of speed in searching and editing thousands of files.

Fully portable application, instant use from USB stick.

     Depeche View Lite requires no installation.
     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).


Further reading: help system contents.
Running Depeche View
Basic searching
Copying text to clipboard
Multi window text operations
Bookmarking basics
Advanced searching
Filtered views
Pro: Phrase highlighting
Advanced bookmarking
How to define a workspace
Tips and tricks
Full Help Text




 



Feature Vote:

If you have an idea on how to improve the program, you may post it under
depecheview.idea.informer.com allowing other users to vote on it.

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, PAD files are available here for DView Lite and Pro.





  

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