Moving forward
posted by Martin Cohen in Miscellaneous 
January 26th, 2009
Last week we have finished quite a lot of polishing and features. Let me tell you about it.
Paired characters is a feature that completes right character if you type left one. For example if you type left bracket, it will add right one. Feature also supports smart overtyping, that will just skip the right character if you entered it yourself. Thanks to the bundle management, you are of course able to configure them yourself within the bundle editor. Configuration is scope-based, so you can allow angle brackets in HTML, but not in PHP, etc. And of course, if you select something and hit the left bracket, the selection will be wrapped with the pair.
Tab triggering scheme has been updated to better cover various lengths of triggers. We also plan to add an optional word-boundary checks that will allow you to limit the tab trigger just for a complete word.
Another update has been done for the conflict selector. The conflict selector is shown when you hit a shortcut (or tab trigger) that is mapped to multiple commands (for example a doctype tab trigger in HTML). Old one has been using the standard menu component, where the new one will use a filtered list and will show the default shortcuts, the tab triggers, as well as where does the command come from.
As we plan to move to beta shortly after 0.3.5, we have also finished our licensing library, which will be tested until we reach the final stage. The beta license will be available for everyone and for testing purposes will be valid for 3 months (not a final word), after which you will get a new one.
Now we are working on attaching the undo, and some of editing quirks to have available most of what we need to test.
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1. dflock
26.01.2009 at 1:40 pm
As ever, sounds great! As ever, only have your word for it. If you have an .exe that runs - at all - can’t you just put a download link in the forums somewhere? Please?
2. Anonymous coward
26.01.2009 at 3:08 pm
I’m thrilled to see to posts in 1 week! Keep it up, Martin! Fans of Intype will really appreciate the increased level of communication.
3. ccblaisdell
26.01.2009 at 3:21 pm
Hear, hear, Coward. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside just to know work is still progressing. Thank Martin, keep it up!
4. dijon
26.01.2009 at 4:01 pm
2 updates in less than a week? Martin’s taking his new years’ resolutions seriously :)
Good to hear, but like dflock says please plug it all together and provide a release (even if it is ultra unstable!). Internal testing is no different to marking your own homework - give it to us to test!
5. kayue
26.01.2009 at 5:10 pm
sounds great!
6. jbeduya
26.01.2009 at 10:38 pm
Yay!
7. Shaun
27.01.2009 at 2:08 am
good stuff guys. Cant wait :D
8. Andrew
27.01.2009 at 2:45 am
Amazing news! Thanks, we cant wait! I use intype everyday at work so this is sweet!
9. mh
27.01.2009 at 12:47 pm
Hell Yeah! :)
10. Jowra
27.01.2009 at 9:18 pm
Keep up the great work! And even more, keep up the good news intervals. ;)
11. Deadelus
28.01.2009 at 3:35 pm
Wohoo! Great news, i’m sure to get that beta license ;-)
12. Anonymous coward
29.01.2009 at 10:54 am
Weee, eager to hop on the beta testing train.
13. effe
29.01.2009 at 4:57 pm
I was able to work with intype some months ago. Now i am really looking for a alternative.
For example:
Is it just me or does maximizing the window not work on multi-display environments?
When i try to maximize the window, the window moves out of the display.
Other example: Selecting a block, say with x lines height and zero cols width does not give a visual feedback anymore.
I am really looking forward to a usable version of intype as I don’t like E and Netbeans is too big as standard text editor.
Too bad I dont have a Mac at work.
14. Ivan Čentéš
30.01.2009 at 1:17 am
@effe
Hi, could you please mention some of your system details, like OS version, Intype version, the theme you are using in Intype and whether you are using some sort of theme engine in windows?
I personaly use the latest unstable release 734 on a multi-display environment (notebook + external monitor) and have no such problems with maximizing as you report.
I have no problems using offset selections (that’s what you describe in the second example) either. Take a look at a sample screenshot.
15. Brendon Kozlowski
30.01.2009 at 7:01 pm
@Ivan: How do you get “offset selections” working? I can’t seem to figure that out. I was under the assumption it was not available in the 734 release version.
16. Ivan Čentéš
30.01.2009 at 8:40 pm
@Brendon Kozlowski
You just press Alt and move down/up with your arrows. It’s like a block selection, but with no columns selected.
Or, when you want multiple single offset selections (for example if you want to insert some text before a bunch of words) you just press Ctrl key and start clicking on the spots where you want your mini offset selections to be.
17. david
31.01.2009 at 4:51 am
really excited to see some life on here. can’t wait for a release. keep up the good work.
18. Julio Protzek
01.02.2009 at 7:24 am
Great to hear more news :D
There will be some change on the project sidebar in this version?
What about something like:
prompt> intype .
This would be great!
Anyway keep the good work!
19. baael
01.02.2009 at 8:08 pm
You mean “intype -p .” is already working, You can always make some shortcut.
20. Julio Protzek
02.02.2009 at 1:47 am
Great! Did not know about this =D
21. Anonymous
02.02.2009 at 6:24 pm
A three month expiration on the beta license. Does that mean that you guys plan on actually making beta releases on a somewhat reasonable time line?
Don’t get me wrong I do see the promise in the application, but considering the last unstable release was a year ago and the last stable even longer I remain skeptical because of past performance.
22. Anonymous coward
03.02.2009 at 3:42 pm
So when are we going to see a release?
23. Martin Cohen
04.02.2009 at 12:48 pm
Yes, we plan to speed up the release cycle after 0.3.5. Keep your fingers crossed. It’s okay if you are skeptical, there is no other way how we can make you sure that it gets better, except for actually get better. :)