GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 64214
Badly needed features for the Text Viewer
Last modified: 2005-01-24 14:08:18 UTC
Please, either through it away or do a proper text viewer. The dafault text viewer in nautilus (all versions) is next to unusable. It fails to display up to 80% (guestimate) of my texts correctly. I made up a feature list in order of importance: IMPORTANT 1. Ability to switch codepages !!! (just like in the Web Browser) I (like many others) have texts in different codepages, coming from other platforms. Nautilus does not allow me to view them, though it does suggest itself as a viewer. 2. Ability to handle CR/LF issues automatically. Remove those ugly end-of-line markings in Windows texts! 3. Ability to set user-defined font for the viewer. Our eyes will last longer... 4. Search pattern function DESIRABLE 1. A button to call an editor and a hex editor... 2. Ability to specify several possible fonts and some sort of shortcut to switch them. 4. Remember last position in text. (For reading books) 5. Fullscreen mode (For reading books) 6. Automatic scrolling Science Fiction: 7. Web links highlighting 9. Syntax highlighting10. Bookmarks
this bug seems to be fixed, now nautilus open the text files with gedit, bug closed. Feel free to reopen if you still get the issue.
Gedit is a lame substitution because it has no codepage switching. It often shows @#WEWRW GIBBERISH ^$#%^#^%$^wb DWSSDF instead of text an has no comfortable way to change it. Browsers do text viewing much better.
Doesn't it let you select the language based on the locales that are installed on your machine? I think it does at least, maybe I'm reading the dialog the wrong way...