PACK VIEW AND AUTOVIEW

Another undocumented and well-hidden XTree command is Pack. This lets you view only the printable text in any file, freed from any non-printing characters and formatting. Select the file and hit V to view it. Then hit the Pack command J. Toggle masking with M to display or not display characters above ASCII 127. Wordwrap is active to end lines at spaces in the text, which aids readability.

Like all the View commands, you can use the Pack command from Autoview (F7). In Autoview the first page of the contents of a file, other than a graphics file, is displayed as you scroll down a list of files. Instead of using J to enter Pack view you must use shift-J; similarly all other View  commands must be entered shifted, or you can enter full-screen View mode by hitting V.

Graphics files are not displayed as graphics by Autoview; instead, the graphics type, number of colours and size in pixels is displayed. But hitting V will display the file as a graphic.

Tom Ruben

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