FoldingText 0.9
- Click leeding "#" in heading to expand / collapse.
- Command-Return to create a new line without splitting the current line.
FoldingText now actually folds… hadn’t planned to add this until post 1.0, but seemed that we really should since “folding” is in name. And now that #’s are always visible we can use them, instead of having to add a row of disclosure triangles which always made everything look to much like an outliner to me.
You can download it from www.foldingtext.com, or direct download here.
2 Posted by Scott on 21 Jul, 2012 01:25 AM
Very, very nice! I would buy it as-is if it had the standard set of OS X edit-menu tools (and a fix for the substitutions bug that I already reported). Will those make it for 1.0 on the app store?
Support Staff 3 Posted by Jesse Grosjean on 21 Jul, 2012 10:58 AM
Can you list the specific edit tools that you are missing? Generally, we expect to do one more round of fixing up editing behavior, and we think that should solve autocomplete and international input.
Other things, such as spell check, we don’t expect to address until post 1.0. But in general if you can tell us what you miss most that can help prioritize.
4 Posted by Scott on 21 Jul, 2012 12:05 PM
The ones that I miss the most are spelling related, but not the traditional spell check dialogue/window. In truth, the two most important ones for me are already implemented in FoldingText ("Text Substitutions" and "Check Spelling Automatically"), but the first one has that bug and the second is a little invisible because it does not use the momentary and role-over blue lines that are part of the standard implementation since Lion. In both cases, it would be good to see them available/checked in their standard submenus of the Edit-menu, so that their implementation is less invisible (and presumably could also be turned of by this that don't like them).
To be more specific, we can go through the "Edit" menu in TextEdit. Going down the list, the first set of options that I miss are under "Spelling" and within that I regularly use "Check Spelling While I Type" and "Check Spelling Automatically" with these activating the red and blue underlines in the document, respectively. The lines obviously break up the visual purity of the text momentarily, but they are very useful tool for someone like me that uses markdown in a text editor as my main writing tool for scientific manuscripts. The spell checking tools are not so much about standard dictionary entires, but more about my custom entires for scientific words and terms.
Related to my personal needs, that is why Text Substitutions (defined in the System Preferences) as so important to me. I use them a lot for scientific names and long terms, and to do things like replace "2" with "²". I would also like to see the other tools in TextEdits "Substitutions" submenu appear in FoldingText, but for now I am happy that the most important option of "Text Replacement" is on by default (and reassured that it is soon to be fixed).
FoldingText already has the Find menu well-implemented, and it also has that nice Selection submenu. The Transformations submenu is less important to me because I use a set of services for those kinds of things and those services already work great in FoldingText.
In the end, I think the things I miss most are relatively few, but they are very useful and kind of standard at this point in text-related App Store apps. They are a little conspicuous in their absence for someone like me that uses them.
This stuff aside, thanks for putting FoldingText together. I love it already and from following the discussion here, I see that the future should hold a lot more great additions.
5 Posted by Scott on 21 Jul, 2012 12:08 PM
hmm, my Text Substitution example above did some automatic formatting when I clicked "Comment" to submit, but I'm sure you get the idea.