Is it possible to show the content of offline files, e.g. txt files when the content is indexed?

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Biff
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Is it possible to show the content of offline files, e.g. txt files when the content is indexed?

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Is it possible to show the content (in the "Preview" panel) of offline files, e.g. txt files, when the content (e.g. of txt files) is indexed?
void
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Re: Is it possible to show the content of offline files, e.g. txt files when the content is indexed?

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No.

I will consider an option to preview the indexed text/plain content.

Thank you for the suggestion.
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Re: Is it possible to show the content of offline files, e.g. txt files when the content is indexed?

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void wrote: Fri Jul 14, 2023 9:07 amNo.
It is a long shot, but: would you consider adding such option for previewing for text-based ones, which file formats of interest user could define; starting with TXT and BAT, PS1, VBS, AHK etc.?

A second database could be created to store them [and this option should be by default turned off so to not drain user's resources]
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Re: Is it possible to show the content of offline files, e.g. txt files when the content is indexed?

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I am considering an option to do this for text/plain files.

Thank you for the suggestion.
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Re: Is it possible to show the content of offline files, e.g. txt files when the content is indexed?

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Thank you very much!
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Re: Is it possible to show the content of offline files, e.g. txt files when the content is indexed?

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Thy Grand Voidinesss wrote: Sat Jul 15, 2023 2:16 pm [...]
consider adding such option for previewing for text based ones, which file formats of interest user could define; starting with TXT and BAT, PS1, VBS, AHK etc.?

A second database could be created to store them
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But how would one tackle the issue of plain text files having different encoding pages? I mean: the database itself could not be plain text, right?
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Re: Is it possible to show the content of offline files, e.g. txt files when the content is indexed?

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The Everything database stores content as text/plain.

If previewing offline content ever becomes an option, the preview would be in text/plain only.
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Re: Is it possible to show the content of offline files, e.g. txt files when the content is indexed?

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Oh, now I get it


The fact that in a TXT file for example the

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sign seen in Unicode as an a filled rectangle but seen as

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-
in ANSI does not mean that I will not find it when I will search for

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while having ANSI page-coded files


Well, I am not a coder, hence my [stupid] question I posted
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