File System Browser
EditRocket provides a file system browser that allows users to browse files and directories on the file system.
The file system browser can be shown or hidden via the View menu.
The file system browser can display files and browsers in single-level mode, where only one directory's contents are shown at a time, or the file system browser can display all files and directories in a tree structure. This setting can be toggled on and off with the Show Parent Directories and Hide Parent Directories icons.
The context menu of the file system browser provides many tools such as moving, renaming, copying, and deleting files, and tools such as head, tail, get section, get info, size, etc.
Listed below are descriptions of the available options on the file system browser:
Show Parent Directories:
This option will display files and directories in a tree-like view, with parent directories visible.
Hide Parent Directories:
This option will show one directory at a time. Opening a sub-directory hides the parent directory.
Driver Drop-down:
On Windows machine, if you would like to change the root driver for the file system browser,
select it from the drive drop-down.
Open:
This option opens the currently selected file or files.
New File:
This option creates a new file in the currently active directory.
New Folder:
This option creates a new folder in the currently active directory.
Sort:
Users can sort how the files display in the file system browser by name, date modified, and time.
Filter:
Users can filter what files are shown in the file system browser using this option.
Size:
This option shows the size of the selected file in bytes, kilobytes, and megabytes.
Detail View:
This option shows all files in the currently selected directory in a detailed table view,
or if a file is selected, shows a detailed view of the file information.
Get Info:
This option shows the name, type, last modified, and size information for a file.
Search:
This option allows users to search for text in a file. The search also supports regular expressions. Any
lines in the file that contain the search text will be displayed in a new editor tab.
Head:
The user enters the number of lines they would like to see, and the head option displays that number
of lines in a new editor tab starting from the first line in the file. This is useful for
showing the beginning of very large files.
Tail:
The user enters the number of lines they would like to see, and the tail option displayed the number
of lines in a new editor. The tail option displays lines at the end of the file. This is useful
for showing the end of a very large file.
Get Section:
This option takes a begin line number and end line number, and then displays the file
lines between these numbers in a new editor tab.
Combine Files:
This option allows users to combine multiple files into one file.
Rename:
Use this option to rename a file or directory.
Copy:
Use this option to copy file(s) or directories.
Move:
Use this option to move file(s) or directories.
Delete:
Use this option to delete file(s) or directories from the file system.
Recent Files:
Shows a list of the most recent files accessed by the user.
Recent Directories:
Shows a list of the recent directories corresponding to the most recent files accessed by the user.
Favorites:
Displays a list of the files stored in the users EditRocket favorites.
Use as File Tree Root:
Select this option to specify a directory to use as the file tree root when launching EditRocket.
Set Root To:
Use this option to set the file tree root to a particular directory.
Refresh:
Use this option to refresh the files and directories displayed in the file system browser.
