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Ed
8 years agoDropbox Staff
iOS text editor is now available!
We are happy to announce that iOS now has a text editor! You can access this feature on any text file from the toolbar in the lower left corner.
Cardinal2B
7 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
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!
- MrWhite7 years agoExplorer | Level 4
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
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