Keeping all temp files until TC or Lister is closed

[pgriffet]

Hi Christian, this is Pierre from Belgium.

I use often the lister to see htm files. TC creates a temp file for each htm file in the TMP directory but if I quit the Lister or if I go to another file, the temp file is deleted. Would it be possible to have an option to keep this files until TC is closed ? Or at the least, until the "lister session" is closed ?
I need it because I have hundred of files to search in for text and the tmp file is a text version of the htm, so it goes faster to search in text files and as I have an old PC (AMD 400), I see the difference. If I could keep the temp files, I would save them for further searches.

I have no idea if it's a big problem to implement.

I have tried a tool called "Web2text" to convert htm to text files but with files from wikipedia, I get an error. The option in TC would avoid the use of another tool just for this conversion.

Thanks for reading me.

Pierre.

[Aezay]

TC shouldn't normally create a temp file until you're viewing the file from an archive or ftp server, so I'll assume that's what you're doing?

There is a setting named EditWaitTime which might do what you need, but I'm unsure if it works with the internal Lister. Here is the description from the help file:

Timeout value when editing files from an archive or ftp server: If an editor closes within this amount of seconds, assume that it's a multiple document editor and show dialog where user can confirm when editing has ended. Set to 0 to turn off this feature. Set to -1 to not show this dialog at all (e.g. when the file was passed via DDE to the associated program).

This is how I have mine setup:
[CONFIGURATION]
EditWaitTime=-1

[petermad]

2Aezay

TC shouldn't normally create a temp file until you're viewing the file from an archive or ftp server

Tc also makes a temp file if you have configured Lister to "Show HTML as text with links" - and no plugin intercepts the file before Lister itself does.

[pgriffet]

thanks Petermad, you are right. But how do I keep this files ?

[ghisler(Author)]

Back in 2003(!) I wrote a little tool which converts html files to plain text. I have uploaded it here:
https://plugins.ghisler.com/addons/htmlextract.zip

Instructions:

HTMLextract.exe v1.0
Freeware html to text converter based on Total Commander's html viewer function

Usage:
Either start it without parameters to get in interactive mode, or pass the
html file to extract as a command line parameter. The program creates a
new text file by just appending the .txt extension to the target file.
Example: test.html -> test.html.txt

This tool accepts wildcards * and ? to convert multiple files in one step.

WARNING: Existing files will be overwritten without warning!