New suggestions

[mikapanja]

@ Kovid

I'm using your editor on a daily basis, so new ideas about enhancing it come up regularly. Here are a few, I hope to get your opinion.

1) Could you add a new color scheme, so that one can choose white background for editing code?

2) Could you enable refreshing the ToC pane after editing the .ncx file directly, just like refreshing File Preview pane after editing code?

3) It would be great if one could select multiple instances while editing code by holding the CTRL key. If performing the same operation in different locations, it would speed up things quite a lot.

4) Also, having the overwrite mode while editing code could come in handy.

Thank you in advance.

[kovidgoyal]

1) There will eventually be the ability to create your own color schemes

2) Not worth the effort. Why are you editing the ncx directly anyway? Use the ToC editor.

3) Way too much work

4) Sure

[kovidgoyal]

I decided to implement (2) after all, as I realized it wasn't a lot of effort.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I decided to implement (2) after all, as I realized it wasn't a lot of effort.

You seem to do this kind of thing a lot

[mikapanja]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I decided to implement (2) after all, as I realized it wasn't a lot of effort.

Thank you, I appreciate it

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by theducks

You seem to do this kind of thing a lot

I can never make up my mind

[theducks]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

I can never make up my mind

Nah!
You design and write good and flexible code that allows you to easily add options.

[DigitEditLab]

@ kovid +1

5/ I dearly miss this Sigil-feature: to right-click on a class in a XHTML file just to jump onto this very class on the proper CSS file... Is this planned?

[kovidgoyal]

Yes it is, though it will be a lot more sophisticated than Sigil's. It will work for all types of css rules that affect a tag, not just classes.

[DigitEditLab]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Yes it is, though it will be a lot more sophisticated than Sigil's. It will work for all types of css rules that affect a tag, not just classes.

Thanks in advance, Kovid. Calibre will be even more interesting/efficient to use.

[mikapanja]

@ kovid

I'm editing a book comprised of .xml text files. I need to add a blank .xml file, but when I do so, it appears in the Miscellaneous section, not in the Text section where I need it. And I can't use drag-and-drop from Misc to Text.

On the other hand, the blank .html and .xhtml files get added in the Text section. Could the blank .xml files get the same treatment?

[kovidgoyal]

Just use .xhtml

There is absolutely no reason to use .xml

And if you must use .xml then change the mimetype manually in the opf file.

[Terisa de morgan]

I have a question, I apologize in advance is this is not the place to ask. Is there any way to rename automatically a set of selected xhtml files?

Thanks in advance.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan

I have a question, I apologize in advance is this is not the place to ask. Is there any way to rename automatically a set of selected xhtml files?

Thanks in advance.

Just a tiny bit further down the right-click menu there is 'Bulk Rename'

You do need to have a group of files selected

[Terisa de morgan]

Originally Posted by theducks

Just a tiny bit further down the right-click menu there is 'Bulk Rename'

You do need to have a group of files selected

Why did I have a feeling that I was to get that answer? Thank you very much.