You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.
Forum Discussion
Ed
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffiOS text editor is now available!
- Rich
Super User II
What file formats other than .TXT are supported? Ideally, it should be able to edit any file type. I have a lot of text files that use different extensions (log files, raw code/scripts, etc.) that are just plain text.- EdIt only supports .txt at the moment. Which other text files were you looking to edit? I can send the feedback to the team
- ernstMreicher58
Super User
hm?!?!?!
doesn´t work on every .txt file!!!
- Thanks for the txt editor. But the speed scroll is gone after txt editor introduced. Some of my txt files have over 50 pages, So I can't work with Dropbox without speed scroll. Thanks!
Aha! So that's what changed. Yeah, this is a major problem for me. I view (don't care so much about edit) some large text files, on a daily basis.
Great feature! I've been waiting for this for years, using other solutions etc.
Suggestion: It would be perfet if it also worked on my markdown (.md) files!!
Oh my God, THANK YOU. I've been waiting for this feature for years. Having to edit hundreds of txts files located in many different folders, this really is a game changer. I've resorted to a bunch of third-party apps, in which I had to keep the files in the app folder, then create aliases to their corresponding folders, thus really complicating my workflow. So this is trully amazing!
SO very happy about this new functionality. Some feedback though:
1. I have a text file that is 350 kB big, and it's awfully slow to edit that file. In comparison, a newly created file has almost decent responsiveness.
2. When clicking on the edit icon, the cursor is inserted at the bottom of the file. I always add text to my files at the top. The optimal thing would be to remove the icon and insert the cursor where the user clicks on the file. I understand that it has implications with selection etc, but still more logical IMO.
After the latest update I am getting these yellow icons on top of my text in some PDF files. We are building several bridges this summer and I keep PDF files of the construction plans on my mobile devices for quick reference in the field. Now I can't read the dimension which are critical. How do I turn them off??
Is there a FULL-SCREEN MODE on the iPad? It would be wonderful to edit text in full-screen (distraction-free) in Dropbox for iPad. (Have not tested on iPhone yet.)
Other than that. This app within an app is a terrific addition, and thank you for finally creating a text editor. It still amazes me Apple has not made an iOS text editor besides proprietary Apple Pages, which only saves in .pages and not TXT or RTF, and only uses iCloud. Shocking after all these years.
Thanks for catching the ball, Dropbox team!
- Thank you!! I have been waiting for this for years. This makes ios so much more usable for me, and I’ll be in dropbox a lot more.
Not sure how hard it would be, but support for markdown .md files would be great. (They’re effectively plain text) This editing of .txt files already existing and stored in Dropbox is a great feature! Thank you.
However, I need to be able to see (and edit) my .txt files contents in a fixed width font. In the editor I am using right here to write this request, there is a drop down Font selection feature - and one of the fonts is Courier. That's precisely what I need (could be Menlo or some other fixed width font).
Is there any way to do this?
What I get now looks like
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
What I need would look like:
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.I am on an iPad 2, iOS 11, current Dropbox App (or can run browser, too)
Help!
Cardinal2B wrote:However, I need to be able to see (and edit) my .txt files contents in a fixed width font.
Curious... While ".txt" files are displayed/edited using a proportional font, ".md" (MarkDown / Plain text) files are "displayed" in a fixed width font! However, ".md" files still don't appear to be editable in the Dropbox iOS app (as requested by earlier posters)? Although ".md" files do show the same text-file-like icon as ".txt" files.
(The Dropbox app on Android allows ".md" files to be edited.)
It would be useful to have a customizable list of file extensions (within "Settings") that can be associated with the text editor. Also, an option to toggle a fixed-width font in the editor would be very useful (a "font selection" is probably overkill IMO). When reading/editing "text files", a fixed-width font is generally preferred. You can do everything with a fixed-width font (indentation, aligning, tabular data) - which you simply cannot do with a proportional font.
Dropbox iOS App Version 74.2.2
