Create profiles for files with certain filename extensions and apply the settings automatically when opening a file.
This plugin is especially useful when coding Windows Batch scripts or if you have to write, for whatever reason, e.g. Linux shell scripts on a Windows machine.
The Windows console still uses as character encoding schema the old DOS or OEM code pages introduced back in the '80s by IBM. In nearly every country another code page is used - and it's different from the default ANSI code page on the same system.
If you write Batch scripts with an editor that uses the default ANSI code page for your country, at its best your comments are displayed wrong when it comes to other characters than the ones in the basic 7 bit ASCII range (character codes from 32 to 127). But if you hard-code e.g. directory names into your script, containing characters of your language with a character code beyond 127, you will get a "Directory/File not found" error.
If you have to write Linux shell scripts on a Windows machine and forget to set the end-of-line format to the Unix/Linux style you will produce a script file which can not be executed.
These are the situations this plugin can help you.
You can create profiles for certain file types (distinguished by their filename extension, e.g. *.cmd, *.bat) and define the code page and/or the end-of-line (EOL) format that should be set when a file matching a profile has been loaded.
When you want to start writing a script, at first create in Windows Explorer a new file. Name it like you want and set its filename extension. Then open it in CudaText. The plugin will automatically set the character encoding and/or the EOL format according to your configuration.
The plugin doesn't change encoding or end-of-line format of a file if it is part of a session or of the file history. That means you can override automatically set encoding or EOL format and it will be restored at next time the file is opened.
When CudaText runs the first time after plugin's installation, the plugin will create a default config file in the CudatText settings directory. It contains template profiles for Batch script and Linux shell script files but lacks the value for Batch script's Encoding key. Set it according to your needs.
If you want to change the plugin's config file, navigate to
(menu) Options -> Settings - plugins -> File Type Profile -> Config. The
config file will be opened. Edit its content and save it. In that moment the
plugin will automatically reload the file and update its configuration. Please
note: Only newly opened files will be affected by the updated configuration,
already opened ones will not.
Possible values for the Encoding setting you can find in the CudaText wiki, see here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Encodings
There you also can find the possible values for the EolFormat setting, see here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Line_ends
Author: Andreas Heim (dinkumoil, at github & sourceforge)
License: MIT