zhanghai
Feature Request: Add a word wrap toggle to the text editor.
Please a a word wrap toggle to the text editor. Reading code on a phone that wraps text is nearly impossible. A good example of another f-droid app that does it well is is https://github.com/billthefarmer/editor. It would be nice to use the Material Files editor for this purpose.
This may be a good feature to add, but I still want to emphasize that a fully functional text editor is not a priority for this file manager project, and I'd still recommend you to get a dedicated text editor app instead.
I understand and agree completely that a fully functional text editor would be out of scope however for many common tasks, two feature enhancements would probably satisfy the vast majority of use cases for opening text files.
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A simple single keyword search, perhaps an icon in the top left when pressed opens a line below where you can enter your word to search with ^ v buttons. The Amaze file manager editor has this feature however the version available in fdroid is old and broken. I am not requesting regex functionality or anything elaborate just a simple search to find words in the text file which has to be one of the top use cases of opening a text file to read in the first place.
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The second is a toggle for word wrap. Any files that contain indentation (such as scripts) are very difficult to read on a text viewer that is imposing word wrapping. A simple word wrap toggle would really improve usability.
Right now I am using 4 different text editors when really I have simple requirements- read, find info in and make simple edits to text files. It would be great is MaterialFiles could do this.
Thank you for this awesome project.
I too agree that the ability to turn on / off the word wrapping would be a great addition and a simple text search would be perfect to integrate into Material Files. Thanks for Material Files it is a great project.
Does anyone have any suggestions for a FOSS text editor for Android. Word Wrap and search are essential and if at all possible ability to work with larger files would be great also? Thanks
