Preferences
(File Menu)


The Preferences dialog is used to set options which affect the program regardless of which index is being used.

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Text Editor Command

Enter the command to be given when the File/Edit is chosen. The path name of the file selected will be supplied as a parameter to this command. The browse button opens a standard file open dialog to assist you in finding the right path.

Directory for Indexes

This is the default path for saved indexes. Indexes can still be saved anywhere, but this mechanism helps promote keeping them all in one place. The default path is to an indexes folder in the folder where the Wilbur executable lives. Wilbur will create this folder as necessary.

Temporary Zip Path

This is the directory where zip files are temporarily expanded. It is also used for temporary files during index builds and updates.

Max Words Separation for Near

The separation allowed, in words, for a near search (see Index/Search).

Contents Tab Size

The number of character widths (based on the letter ‘A’) represented by a tab in the contents pane.

Start in Outline Mode

If this box is checked, Wilbur will put the contents pane into outline mode (just lines containing searched for words are shown) when it is first started.

File History Size

The number of previously opened indexes that Wilbur remembers for the Recent Files section of the file menu.

Word Wrap Size

The line length in characters before the line is wrapped back to the left edge of the window.

Max Contents Buffer

This is the largest amount of information that Wilbur will attempt to read into its contents pane.  This is provided to save time when very large files are highlighted in the file list (Particularly easy to do when sorting by size).

Cache PDF Text

If the pdftotext program is installed on your machine Wilbur will automatically use it to extract text from pdf (Adobe Acrobat) files. Normally this text is discarded after use, but if you check this box, Wilbur will keep the extracted text so that viewing the file in the future will be faster.

PDFToText Arguments

Enter any optional arguments you wish passed to the pdftotext program. (See the documentation from the pdftotext program).

Divide Window

You can select whether the file list pane is above (Horizontal) or beside (Vertical) the contents pane. After changing this you have to exit Wilbur and restart it for the setting to take effect.


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