Android simple generic text editor. The app is available from F-Droid and here
This is a very simple generic text editor which may be used standalone or to show or edit any sort of text file from another app. If you select a text file in a file manager or similar app you will be offered the option of using this editor along with whatever other apps you have installed that can show or edit a text file. Files will initially be opened read only, long touch on the display or touch the edit item in the toolbar to enable editing.
There are four toolbar items which may appear:
- Edit - Edit the current read only file
- View - View the current file read only
- Save - Save the current file if modified
- Open - Open a text file using a chooser
And on the menu:
- Open recent - Pop up a list of recent files
- Save as - Save the current file with a new name
- Search - Interactive search of text using a regular expression
- View markdown - View markdown in browser or html viewer
- Auto save - Save the current file on app pause
- Word wrap - Limit text width to screen width and word wrap
- Suggestions - Text input and spelling suggestions
- Highlight syntax - Highlight programming language syntax
- Theme - Choose theme
- Light
- Dark
- Retro
- Text size - Choose text size
- Small
- Medium
- Large
- Typeface - Choose typeface
- Monospace
- Proportional
- About - Show version, copyright and licence
Edit the current read only text.
View the current file read only.
Save the current file if modified.
Choose a file to open from the chooser dialog that pops up. The parent folder will be the first in the list. See File Chooser. The file will initially be read-only. Touch the Edit toolbar item to enable editing.
Choose a file from the list that pops up. As above the file will initially be read only.
Enter a new file name in the dialog that pops up. Absolute names
starting with a slash '/' will be saved in that exact path. Names
without a starting slash will be saved relative to the main public
folder, /sdcard/
, or /storage/emulated/0/
.
Enter search text in the field that pops up in the toolbar. The first matching item will be highlighted. Use the search button in the keyboard for find next. The exact regular expression syntax used is in the android documentation for Pattern.
You will be prompted to choose a viewer for an html file containing the encoded markdown from the current open file. If the text contains no markdown the result will be the same text.
If the current open file is a C, C++, Objective C, Go, Java, Javascript, Python, Shell script, Swift, CSS, HTML or Markdown file, the keywords, classes comments, strings, etc will be highlighted. See Syntax Highlighting.
If the file being edited is not a plain text file, selections created by double tapping or long touching on the text will be extended to enclosing delimiters (brackets, quotes) on the same text line.
If you touch the back or open button, and the current file has been modified, you will be prompted whether you want to save it, else the editor will just exit or open a file chooser. The current file may be saved on app pause using the menu option. The scroll position and name will be remembered for the last 10 files opened.
If a file has changed in storage while it was open in the editor, if you attempt to save it, or the app is resumed, you will be prompted whether to overwrite or reload the file.
If there is no open file any text entered will by default be saved in
Documents/Editor.txt
. This file will be loaded on start if it
exists. Use the Save as
menu item to save it elsewhere.
Text files opened or shared by another app may be viewed and
edited. Some apps may share files or text using a content
URI that
is not resolvable to a path to a file in storage. In that case the
editor will read the file into the default file. The default file in
storage will not be overwritten unless the file is saved. Use the
Save as
menu item to save the file elsewhere.