Total Commander Inbuilt Lister Suggestions

[damieri]

Hello, I like Total Commander but not its default inbuilt lister.

There have been many improvements to TCMD but not enough for the inbuilt lister IMO.

I think the following options (Configure Lister or Lister Options Menu) wouldn't be too difficult to implement. It would make viewing files in the commonly used BINARY mode SO much better...

* [CheckBox] View Printable Characters Only in Binary Mode
(ASCII/ANSI 0x00-0x1F and high-bit ASCII/ANSI 0x80-0xFF are viewed as SPACES to make viewing some files MUCH clearer)

* [Color Dropdown Box] Found Text Font Color
* [Color Dropdown Box] Found Text Background Color
(currently it is VERY hard to see the "inverted" found text in binary viewing mode amongst all the non-printable characters and also harder still if the found text is only a small string)

These can probably be done with a Lister plugin, but IMO is would be better to implement them in the inbuilt Lister.

I hope these suggestions will be considered.

[ghisler(Author)]

[CheckBox] View Printable Characters Only in Binary Mode (ASCII/ANSI 0x00-0x1F and high-bit ASCII/ANSI 0x80-0xFF are viewed as SPACES to make viewing some files MUCH clearer)

Most of my users are non-U.S., so these high ascii characters are actually valid letters in their languages, like accents or umlauts...

* [Color Dropdown Box] Found Text Font Color
* [Color Dropdown Box] Found Text Background Color

TC 6.0 will support this! It will allow to change the following colors in lister:
- background
- foreground
- selection background
- selection foreground
- http and ftp link color

[damieri]

Thankyou very much ghisler(Author)!

When is TC 6.0 due then? I understand then that 5.51 will be followed by TC 6.00?

TC 6.0 will support this! It will allow to change the following colors in lister:
- background
- foreground
- selection background
- selection foreground
- http and ftp link color

Just checking, but there are NO settings for Found Text in there. Selected Text is different to Found Text (with F7).

I still think the option to show only characters 0x20-0x7F (the rest as spaces or dots) would be very useful to BINARY/HEX viewing mode. This is similar to how debuggers display dumps in binary mode. Having this option would be great also even with the new (Found Text?) color settings. This is with all due respect to international characters. It is merely an option to make viewing "plain text" sections clearer/easier in Binary/Hex mode.

Perhaps, I should rephrase this intended option to:

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[Tick]        Display Plain Text Characters (20-7F) Only        P

As a "P" option in Lister - Options (similar to the W Wrap text)

Sorry to persist on this point, but IMO Binary/Hex mode viewing is perhaps the most common viewing mode. This would be a very useful option, and would, of course, not have to be turned on by default.

[djk]

When is TC 6.0 due then? I understand then that 5.51 will be followed by TC 6.00?

Look here:
http://ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=8836#8836

[soreno]

"I still think the option to show only characters 0x20-0x7F (the rest as spaces or dots) would be very useful to BINARY/HEX viewing mode."

I agree. However it should be easy to change the interval. The letter 'h' could be used to hide/unhide chars.

I would probably "surf" with interval [0x20 - 0xa7].

A nice feature when viewing dll, exe and other executable files.

[dagoon]

my vote for limit displayed characters to 32-127

[damieri]

I agree. However it should be easy to change the interval. The letter 'h' could be used to hide/unhide chars.

I would probably "surf" with interval [0x20 - 0xa7].

Perfect! H for Hide/unhide in Lister and a Lister Configuration section to select the "ONE range only" characters to "Display", eg:

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Hide/unhide Displayed Character Range (0-255)
        Range Start : 32
        Range End   : 127

The Lister currently uses H for Help. Maybe change this to F1 to have the quick H key in the Lister - Options menu (in the "W" "F" + "H" section):

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[Tick]      Hide/unhide characters      H

A nice feature when viewing dll, exe and other executable files.

Exactly! I am sure I am not the only one to regularly inspect EXE/DLL/etc. files. Most commonly to inspect installation files BEFORE installing a whole lot of rubbish etc. This is just one VERY IMPORTANT use of TC.

[damieri]

Also, not to forget the Found Text Background and Font color options.

This is NOT the same as Selected Text colors.

"Found Text" is the text highlighted when using the F7 Find key.

[soreno]

It should be possible to use multiple intervals.

Example.

[0x20 - 0x5a]; [0x91+3]; [0x9b]; [0xae - 0xbe]

I inspect most files downloaded via Internet.