Disabling WildEdit Features, Please

MatthewF · Post by **MatthewF** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 5:29 pm

I appreciate the way that WildEdit allows you to undo changes made to a batch of files, but many times I don't want this feature, and because I'm regularly using WildEdit to process 70,000 files at a time, the feature eats disk space and processor time, and it takes a very long time to have WildEdit delete the undos. Is there any way I can turn this feature off, even temporarily?

Also, I appreciate that it displays the log as it makes changes, but again, when processing 70,000 files at once the realtime display of the log starts to really slow things down. I periodically clear the log as it's processing, but it's a manual process and is a fair bit of hassle... and even then it can't be nearly as fast as if I could just close the log pane and have it not build that giant text file. I'd be perfectly happy -- super happy, actually -- if it simply didn't log at all, and at the end just reported the number of files examined and number changed. This, too, would speed things up.

As I have dozens of changes I have to make to these 70,000 files, some with regular expressions, it would really help to speed the whole thing up.

Is there anyway to disable these two features?

Thanks for a cool program,
Matthew Frederick

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:45 pm

I don't think so, but you can limit the log to modified files only, use the "Do not log files that have not been modified" on the Options panel. I do support your request for an undo limit, perhaps a number in the range 0-10? Only print log summary also sounds like a fair request to me. HTH

MatthewF · Post by **MatthewF** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:07 pm

Unfortunately the "limit to modified" option doesn't help too much, as in each pass somewhere between 30,000 and 70,000 of the total 70,000 files is modified.

Glad to hear the requests seem reasonable!

-- Matthew