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Contents View

The contents view provides all editing and menu functions known from other textViews.

The popup menus 'accept' function saves changed text back to the file. Usually, there is a keyboard shortcut (such as "CMD-a") available for the accept function.

Unless accepted, changes made to the text do not affect the underlying file.

If you change your mind, and want your editing be undone, simple select the file again (double-click). This will bring the original or last accepted contents of the file back into the contents view.
In case you have modified the text in the contents view, you will get a warning (and a chance to change your mind) when you try to change directories, get another files contents or close the fileBrowser window.

Encoding Field

The encoding field shown in the lower information area displays the browsers encoding, which is used when reading/writing files.
When reading a file, the browser tries to find the files encoding by searching searching for a character sequence like "encoding: nameOfEncoding", where nameOfEncoding is something like "utf-8", "iso8859-2", "jis" etc. (for a full list of supported encodings, take a look at the "CharacterEncoder >> initialize" method.

The encoding can also be set explicitely, via the encoding-fields popup menu.
(It is also possible to lock the encoding, to prevent a wrong encoding guess to be taken from a file.)


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