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Changelog

Every release, and what actually changed in it.

1.0 Not released yet First release

Writing

  • Tabs. Keep a dozen files in one window. ⌃ Tab steps forward, ⌘ ⇧ ← and ⌘ ⇧ → move sideways. Drag a tab out to get a window back.
  • Focus mode. ⌘ ⇧ C dims everything except the document you are in, and the same shortcut brings it back.
  • Margins you set yourself. ⌘ ⇧ P shows the guides; drag them and the text follows while you drag. Line length, line spacing and font are all yours.
  • Plain paste. Anything you paste arrives as text. Fonts, colours and sizes are dropped on the way in.
  • A caret that matches the type. Cap height, not x-height, and the same gap on both sides of the letter.

Developer mode

  • Syntax colouring on a shortcut. ⌘ ⇧ D covers Swift, JavaScript, Python, JSON, YAML, HTML, CSS, Markdown, shell and C-like files.
  • Per window, not per app. Prose in one window, a config file in the next, each remembering its own setting.
  • Big files stay usable. Past a few megabytes the colouring switches itself off and the status bar says so, instead of freezing.

Window and appearance

  • Light, dark, or follow the system.
  • Optional translucent background, with the blur behind the text rather than through it.
  • Hide the title bar with ⌘ ⇧ T, or keep the window above everything with ⌘ ⇧ O.
  • Two tab styles — the flat one, or Safari-style pills. Switchable in Settings.
  • Windows remember where they were, per file.

Files and text

  • Find and replace in a bar that matches the editor instead of the system one.
  • Live counts of words, characters and lines, with a reading-time estimate that counts syllables rather than guessing from word count.
  • Encodings sorted out for you. UTF-8, UTF-16 and Latin-1 on the way in, always UTF-8 on the way out. Windows line endings survive the round trip.
  • Printing with the document's own typography.