
Searching one or two plain text files is easy. Windows Search and
Notepad will probably be enough. But when you need to browse ten files, a
hundred, maybe even thousands, then you’re likely to need a little
specialist assistance. And that’s where the free-for-personal-use Depeche View Lite comes in.
Point this tiny portable program at a location and it will open every
plain text file in that folder tree (up to a maximum of 10,000 in this
build, anyway – the $40 commercial version is unrestricted). These are
all displayed in a flat view, one above the other, and that alone can be
useful as it’s easy to scroll down and browse them all.
When you do have a lot of files then
you’ll soon want to start searching, of course, and this is...