Quick view

[Riccardo Paolo Bestetti]

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 at 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