hello

Im migrating from apple finder and installed kde5. Im playing with dolphin file manager and can't figure out how to view a text file inside delphin itself without having to open the file in some external program.

A simple use case.
- i have a dir with many subdirs and text files
- using keyboard i can navigate through the dir and files structure
- when i select a file i want to see its context immediately/dynamical/asap displayed in an external panel for example

Ive looked at various options in delpin itself, read on google etc but can't find anything like that.

Is that possible in delphin. I can imagine it could be created as:
- opt1: split view where on the 2th view u select a new 'view mode' that only shows file contend form the 1st view
- opt2: a new panel type to dynamical preview the text files
- opt3: an improved and amended current preview options delphin has

ps.
I would like to accomplish something similar to
https://img42.com/z4WmH

Thanks
Rado

Konqueror in filemanager mode does display e.g. text files inside the window

Dolphin has an Information panel that you can show/hide with F11 (you may need to turn on preview of text files in dolphin's settings -> General -> Previews). This panel will only preview the top portion of the text file (no scrolling to examine the whole thing).

There's also a universal preview app you can install called klook (https://github.com/KDE/klook). You can get dolphin integration if you patch dolphin using the directions provided in klook's documentation.