Changing View Mode

The file content can be displayed as text (the Text view mode) or as hexadecimal values (the Hex view mode) in the viewer. The viewer can autodetect text files and display them as text, while all other (binary) files are displayed as hexadecimal values. You can prevent possible autodetection problems by forcing the Text or Hex view mode for specified files (see the Force Text mode for files and Force Hex mode for files options in Configuration/Internal Viewer).

Use the following commands:

• Auto-Select: if checked, the viewer tries to autodetect whether the file contains only text and should be displayed in the Text view mode (if not, it is displayed in the Hex view mode),
• Hex (the Ctrl+H or F4 key) and Text (the Ctrl+T or F5 key): the currently used view mode is checked, and you can also change the view mode by selecting one of these items,
• Set as Default: use this command to set the current view mode as default for all future viewing (it also turns off Auto-Select).

Remarks

In the Text view mode, the file content is divided into text lines. You can choose which types of line endings should be accepted; see the Line Ends option in the Configuration/Internal Viewer.

In the Hex view mode, the file content is divided into 16-byte lines. The first displayed number is the line offset (in hexadecimal). The line content (up to 16 bytes) follows, first as hexadecimal values and then as text.