Running Depeche View from Windows Explorer:

Within Windows explorer,

• double click on the dview.exe file, to start the tool without any loaded text.
• OR drag+drop folders and files on to dview.exe to run the tool AND have those contents loaded immediately.

creating a desktop icon

make sure dview.exe is stored in a non-desktop location. then click on "Setup" and "create desktop icon". now you may drag+drop folders onto the created icon, just as in explorer.

further reading:

running Depeche View from the Windows Command Prompt

Make sure dview.exe is located in a directory that is listed within the PATH environment variable. then type "dview" and parameters.

formal syntax:

   dview [-options] singleDirectory fileNamePattern1 [pattern2 ...]
   dview -dir mydir1 mydir2 -file pattern1 pattern2

examples:

   dview mydir .cpp .hpp      - loads all .cpp and .hpp files from mydir,      
                                including all subdirectories.                  
   dview .                    - loads all TEXT files from the current dir.     
   dview -nosub .             - the same, but excluding subdirectories.        
      
   dview -dir mydir1 mydir2 -file .txt .doc -dir mydir3 -file !.bak            
      
        loads .txt and .doc files from mydir1 and mydir2, and loads all        
        files except .bak files from mydir3. note that .doc files are binary,  
        but by listing their extension explicitely, you force them to load.    
      
   dview . -all .doc .xls     - load all TEXT files, AND .doc .xls binaries.   

command line options

Further options (to be specified directly after "dview"):                   

   -allbin       also load all binary files (extracting text parts).
   -hidden       also load all HIDDEN or SYSTEM files (not default).
                 helpful if you need to search through configuration files,
                 for example of your web browser.
   -wrap[=n]     wrap long text lines at current screen width, or column n.
                 does not work if fastload is set in the config.
   -wrapbin=n    wrap text extracted from binary files at column n.
   

loading all text files from a directory tree

Click the Open button, or press CTRL+O, then select a directory.

All TEXT files from this directory, including all subdirectories, are loaded. TEXT means pure ASCII text, NOT MS Word .doc or other binary file formats.

If you want to define in further detail which files to load and which not, read on here how to define a fileset.

Next chapter: Basic Search Within Many Text Files.
 

snapshot with 8254 files loaded. the word "interface" was found 5690 times.