Tilde v1.3.0

Tilde 1.3.0

Tab follows each file's indentation, invisible characters get a faint mark, and ⌘-click opens Markdown links in the editor.

New

• Tab follows the file's indentation. When a file opens, Tilde looks at how it's already indented. In a file indented with spaces, Tab inserts spaces up to the next indent stop. In a tab-indented file, or one with no indented lines yet, Tab inserts a tab as before. YAML files always get spaces: the file's own width, or 2. With several lines selected, Tab indents each of them and leaves empty lines empty. ⇧Tab outdents the current line or every selected line. Each Tab or ⇧Tab is one ⌘Z. (#18)
• Invisible characters are visible. Characters that draw as nothing or look just like a space now get a faint mark in the editor: zero-width spaces, a stray byte-order mark, bidirectional controls, and no-break and full-width spaces. Control codes such as NUL and ESC show as ␀ and ␛. A line with bidirectional controls reads in the order it's stored, so they can't disguise what the text says. The marks are drawn only: saving, copying, and Find still see the original characters. (#19)
• ⌘-click opens Markdown links in the editor. With Markdown Styling on, ⌘-click a [text](url) link to follow it the way Reader does. A #heading link scrolls to that heading. A link to a local file opens it in its own window, when macOS grants access to the file. A web link opens in your browser. The pointer turns into a hand while ⌘ is held over a link, and a plain click still just places the caret. (#14)

Install

Already on Tilde 1.2.0 or later? Choose Tilde ▸ Check for Updates…. If you installed with Homebrew, run brew upgrade --cask tilde.

For a new install:

1. Download Tilde-v1.3.0.dmg below.
2. Open the DMG.
3. Drag Tilde to Applications.
4. Open a .txt, .md, or .markdown file with Tilde.

Requires macOS 14.0 or later.

Notes

Known issue: in the editor, ⌘-click on a link whose URL contains parentheses, like [Foo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_(bar)), opens the address cut off at the first ), and badge links such as [![CI](…)](…) don't respond to ⌘-click. Reader follows both correctly (#38).

Thanks to @JeongJaeSoon for all three changes (#33, #35, #36).

Released under the MIT License.