> 5iler (pronounced ‘filer’) No. This isn't intuitive at all. Five-iler?
Mentally, I pronounced it 'Vile-er' (as in roman numeral V).
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#42Nice, I really like it.
My suggestions might be out of line with the minimalist philosophy but:
1) Code coloring or at least code blocks
2) The ability to open two at the same time, side by side
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like 5iler a whole lot and I second adestefan's advice. I use a Linux system and don't have cmd keys. I'm wondering if, since some browsers (at least Chrome + Safari) use cmd+1/2/3 to switch tabs, if maybe replacing cmd with ctrl would be easier for everyone involved? Great app and excellent design. Call me a fan!
Appreciate it :) Actually, you can already use Ctrl+Numbers -- command is essentially just an alias for Macs (i.e. the Shortcuts modal is the misleading part).
I was a bit obtuse in my original comment. Ctrl does work fine. I then tried Alt since that's in the position of the Cmd key, but that didn't work (which is a good thing because then it doesn't eat the browser's tab switch keys.)
Of course the same is also true on Windows.
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#44Really nifty and very well done. If you have time down the road you could think of implementing one feature that every modern text editor for some reason lacks: autocorrect. TextEdit on Mac has some form of autocorrect but mostly sucks, I don't know why in 2014 we're still using the backspace but I feel it's time to move on.
isn't the same auto-correct system in TextEdit.app available by default in any cocoa text-fied on OS X? And if you think that system 'mostly sucks', perhaps it is because you are vastly underestimating what a difficult feature it is to implement?
I didn't say it was easy and I'm not underestimating anything, that doesn't change the fact that autocorrect on Mac sucks.
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#45I absolutely love this!
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#46Great job! Like the concept. But here's another nitpick.
I see when you activate a file, the animation first shrinks the file a bit and then expands it out. Is it possible to remove the shrinking? It makes the app "feel" a bit jerky. I think the reason is when you shrink the activating file, all other files expand by a bit. This causes the whole screen shifting a bit, leading to a somewhat jarring experience for a split second.
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#47Cool idea, nice implementation! Feature request: please implement lists either as a keyboard shortcut or as a text macro. Both ordered (numbered) and un-ordered preferred. BTW, for anyone who didn't catch it: you can change the name of each notepad. Just double-click the name, type what you want and it'll be saved.
Thank you! As a matter of fact, Markdown support is the next big thing I'm working on, and I plan to look into incorporating lists.
I'm probably in the minority, but I would vote against markdown support. There are tons of minimalist markdown editors out there (have a look in the Mac app store for starters). At least make it switch-offable.
I'd vote against list automation too, because it changes the way the cursor and keyboard behave.
URL detection would be nice though, since it only affects the visual display and mouse behavior.
I'd also vote for a constant-width font option. Preferably Consolas or one of its knock-offs.
It would be nice if the line number, column number, and number of characters in the buffer were reported in one of the corners.
Comments based on the web version (Firefox Mac).
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#48Two requests:
1) I'd like the titles to be Markdown-friendly headings instead of C comments, personally.
2) I'm not sure if this is within scope - maybe this is just something to do on my own in Dropbox - but it would be neat if there were an 'archive' button. Let's say I'm done with one of my files and I want to clear it out. Push the button, and that file would be moved to archived/DATETIME.txt or something like that, and cleared.
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#49I really like this, especially that it handles the tab key properly. I find it frustrating that it hijacks ctrl+tab and ctrl+shift+tab as well though. I use those to switch browser tabs. I'm on Linux + Firefox.
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#50For the desktop version, I'm having problems with undo. Occasionally, if I delete something, I won't be able to undo it.
This may be a known issue: it has to do with the fact that whenever Dropbox syncs, the undo state is reset. If you haven't setup Dropbox sync and have been experiencing this, let me know.
Yeah I actually haven't synced Dropbox, though I can't seem to reproduce this on a consistent basis. Huge fan of this though, definitely going to be something I use on a consistent basis.