Text Editor - Edit documents easily

Oojao Text Editor is a user-friendly and robust tool for managing files, enabling users to open and save documents efficiently. The app supports multiple file openings through tabs.

Although the app contains advertisements to maintain its free status, the ads are unobtrusive and can be easily closed or temporarily disabled in the Settings. Notably, there are no ads displayed during the editing process!

Furthermore, the app now offers a range of rich text styling features, empowering users to customize their notes according to their preferences.

Key Features:

• Create and modify documents

• Multi-document support with tabs

• Quick access list for recently opened documents

• Capability to handle large files with substantial file sizes

• Font customization options: bold, italic, underline, strikethrough

• Font size, color, highlights, typeface, alignment adjustments

• Inclusion of images and hyperlinks

• Convert selected text to uppercase or lowercase

• Charset/encoding modifications

• Dark theme available

• Printing functionality

And much more!

.TXT FAQs.

What is TEXT format?

The TEXT file type is typically associated with command-line text editors, such as Vim or Emacs and is often used for storing text-based data, such as configuration files or scripts.

In general, both .TXT and .TEXT files can be opened and edited using any plain text editor and can be easily exchanged between different operating systems and software applications. The choice of file extension often depends on personal preferences or the conventions of the specific operating system or software environment.

Which programmes will open a .TXT file?

Some popular programmes that can open .TXT files include:

   - Web File Helper.

   - Online TXT Reader.

   - File Viewer for Android.

   - Microsoft Word.

   - Microsoft Notepad.

   - Apple TextEdit.

   - Leafpad and gedit for Linux.

   - Apple Pages.

   - Chrome OS - Google Chrome Text.

What is the difference between .PDF and .TXT files?

PDF documents can include images as well as text and have a great deal of formatting capabilities, whereas .TXT files only contain plain text. Although both document formats can work across a variety of hardware or operating systems, .TXT files are quite feature limited. If you want to convert a .TXT file into a PDF, you can do so quickly and easily using the online Adobe Acrobat conversion tool.

Is the .TXT file format obsolete?

Despite many people thinking that the .TXT file format has no more practical use with the introduction of more complex formats, .TXT continues to have a variety of uses in software coding and basic data storage. It is backwards compatible with older hardware too, which can be extremely helpful.

What are some popular alternatives to the .TXT format?

As text files have become more sophisticated, formats such as .PDF, .DOCX and .RTF have become popular alternatives to .TXT files. This is due to the additional formatting and media features they offer.

Why Applications using TXT files

Many software and operating systems use TXT files to save application logs and system logs. It is also used in many applications to save config files and data. Programmers use it to save their codes and scripts.

Benefits?

Some advantages of TXT files over other text file formats are given below:

    Small size: TXT files are known to have a small file size compared to other text file formats.

    Compatibility: TXT is a file format supported by most operating systems.

    Easiness: It is easy to create and modify a TXT file.

TXT file format is a simple file format used to save text data. It can be created and edited in all operating systems and has a low memory footprint. They are inevitable in the digital world as it is a basic medium of storing data digitally.

What People Say about TXT Edit on Android?

How hard can it be to find a simple text editor that edits any text file stored anywhere you want it to be stored on your internal or external sdcard?

   - On every platform (except Android?), you can create a plain ASCII text file & store that txt file anywhere you have write permission.

   - And then you can edit that ASCII plaintext file using any text editor (e.g., gVim or Notepad on Windows or vi on Linux).

   - You can even link a shortcut to that text file on your desktop in a folder of other text files.

Is that too much to ask for Android to have the same functionality?

   - You store a bunch of plain text files anywhere you have write permission.

   - When you want to edit them, you tap on a shortcut in a folder of shortcuts.

   - That brings up whatever editor you have that shortcut set to use.

Lest you think otherwise, I have tried text editors but there are too many to test, but to date, ALL of them store the text file ONLY in their own proprietary location and they store them in their own proprietary format.

   - I don't want a proprietary location or proprietary text format.

   - I just want what every other platform has the ability to do.

   - I want to take ANY text file and edit it with ANY text editor and save it ANYWHERE I have write permission.

Is editing any plain text file too much to ask for in something as simple conceptually as a basic Android text file editor?

#1

The first one I tried called simple text editor can save a txt file wherever I have write permissions to (I don't have external sd card to test).

It's small (1MB), open source.Since it's my first time using it, I can't vouch for it's reliability, speed, etc. But if you just want to edit small plain txt files, it seems to work okay.

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Thank you for the suggestion of the FOSS "Simple Text Editor" tool by Maxim Starkov (aka MaxiStar).

1. I went to the F-Droid app on my phone and searched for "simple text editor"

2. F-Droid came up with the "Simple Text Editor by Maxim Starkov" version 1.24.0

3. That installed on my Android 12 Galaxy A32 5G

4. I allowed it to access photos & media

5. And it opened to "newfile.txt" saying "Type Something Here"

6. I entered "this is a test" and hit the three dots and then save

7. It asked me where to put the file (defaulting to "Downloads")

8. Instead I put it to the external sdcard, folder 0001, subfolder txt

9. That seemed to have worked

In Settings, there are useful options which default to

    [_]Open last

        {To open last edited file}

    [x]Show Last Edited Files

        {Show last edited files in options menu}

    [_]Autosaving

        {Automatically save currently editing file when window is closed}

    [x]Alternative File Paths

        {Allow assigning alternative addresses for files if no file system permissions granted.}

    Encoding = (o)UTF-8

        (many other encoding options existed)

    Line Delimiters = (o)default

        (UNIX/Windows/Mac line-ending options existed)

SAVE TO TXT:

    The only option I changed was I turned autosaving on.

    Then I used a file manager to look for the file it had saved.

    One of the options to edit it was the "Simple Text Editor" by Maxim Starkov.

    That worked.

OPEN WITH SHORTCUT:

    Then I used the SimpleMobileTools FileManager to create a desktop shortcut to the newfile.txt file.

    When I tapped that desktop shortcut from the homescreen, a dialog came up asking me which program I wanted to use to edit the text file.

    One of the options to edit it was the "Simple Text Editor" by Maxim Starkov.

    That worked.

RANDOM TXT FILE:

    Then I used the MiX FileManager to create a foo.txt text file on the external sd card in the 0001 folder, and in the txt subfolder.

    In MiX FileManager I tapped on that foo.txt file and up came an "Open with" selection which included the newly added "Simple Text Editor" by Maxim Starkov.

    That worked.

TEXT FILE COPIED FROM WINDOWS:

    Then I copied a text file named snafu.txt from Windows over to the external sdcard 0001/txt foder.

    Using the Android FileManager I tapped on that snafu.txt file.

    It asked how I wanted to treat that file (I selected "text").

    Up came an "Open with" selection which did NOT contain the option for the "Simple Text Editor" by Maxim Starkov.

    Instead I selected the MK File Manager text editor (mathewkor)

    That worked (but it failed to open in the right editor).

    But when I used the "My Files" filemanager, it worked!

EXISTING TEXT FILE

    But when I tapped on an existing text file that was created previously, the "Simple Text Editor" by Maxim Starkov went through all the motions as above, but it would not write the file for some reason.

    The error is "Cannot write file"

    In conclusion, it worked almost perfectly.

    When I tapped on the file in almost every file editor, an "Open with set of options came up, almost all of which contained the "Simple Text Editor" by Maxim Starkov.

    When I created a homescreen shortcut to the text file, an "Open With" set of options came up containing the "Simple Text Editor" by Maxim Starkov.

    When I copied a text file from Windows, the action was the same as the above, which is a good thing.

The bad news...

Two things failed:

1. When I tap on the text file in some file managers, the Simple Text Editor by Maxim Starkov does NOT show up.

2. When I tap on old text files, even when the Simple Text Editor by Maxim Starkov does show up, it sometimes can NOT write the file.

Dunno why.

I think what I'll do is copy all the existing files that can't be overwritten for some reason, and then try to start fresh.

Thanks for the advice of using this FOSS "Simple Text Editor" by Maxim Starkov (aka MaxiStar).

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