[ale] android test editor/reader

[Bugs]

+1 for VimTouch

On 04/29/2014 04:21 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> On 2014-04-29 10:54, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
>> You'd think this would be easy.
>> Have an Android tablet.  With Micro SD card (which is smaller than my fat 
>> fingers can handle!)
>>
>> I have installed on SD card an unencrypted text file.
>>
>> But I can not find any way to access the file!  I have tried several "text 
>> editors" and none has a way to look for text files it has not created.  In 
>> fact none seems to work like a text editor at all.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a text editor/reader that will do the simple things:
>> scan storage media for text files;
>> open/save/close a file;
>> do simple edits to file?
> 
> I use both Jota Text Editor and VimTouch on my phone.  They both will
> navigate the full file system and open pretty much any file that has
> read permission for the user.
> 
> Beware that Google's KitKat update has done some funky things with SD
> cards that cause a lot of headache for users.  It's an update to file
> permissions that makes the SD card a bit more difficult to use.  It
> seems to be causing some issue with VimTouch but Jota appears ok.
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