Re: Quick view

["Riccardo Paolo Bestetti" <pbl bestov io>]

On Sun Oct 2, 2022 at 10:53 AM CEST, Andrew Borodin wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Oct 2022 10:14:23 +0200 "Riccardo Paolo Bestetti" <pbl bestov io> wrote:
> > - Some of the files that ca be successfully rendered in the viewer (e.g.
> >   HTML, images*, PDF) show up as plain text/binary dumped as ASCII
> >   instead in quick view
>
> It's a feature[2]. Quick view shows file in the raw mode to avoid any delays
> required to get some info of the file.
I'm not proposing having parsed mode by default in quick view. I'm
proposing having the ability of switching to it. Users who don't want
that won't see any difference.

> > - Directories show the string "Cannot view: not a regular file" but it
> >   might be a good feature to show the contents, or maybe a short
> >   description of it ("X images, Y documents")
>
> Again, to calculate directory statistics, or get some info of file, we need
> some time. Any delay can annoy users.
See above.

Riccardo P. Bestetti