I won’t mince words: as a developer, I have a love-hate relationship with Tumblr. But this is a step in the right direction. Incorporating the preview window optionally into the space, offering to hide the Title and other fields, etc. Of course, it’s easy to imagine a number of ways that full-screen could be even more improved. Here’s a shrunken example for the MarsEdit post editor I’m using to write this entry: When you enter full-screen mode on Lion, the current width of your editor is preserved, and only the height is zoomed to occupy the full screen space on your Mac. I made a relatively simple tweak for 3.5 that should improve things dramatically. Most users found this awkwardly huge editor space impossible to work comfortably in, so found themselves avoiding the full-screen mode, even though they liked the idea in concept. My mistakes? I merely zoomed the post editor window to occupy the entire height and width of the screen.
The problem was, it wasn’t very useful for real-world writing scenarios. Shortly after Lion 10.7 was released, I added nominal support for full-screen mode to MarsEdit. The following formatting macro will take whatever text happens to be on the pasteboard, and insert it into the edited post with HTML markup for coloring it green: The possibilities are limitless, but to illustrate with a simple example, imagine you commonly find yourself wanting green text in your blog posts. Starting with this release, you can also customize the keyboard shortcut for any formatting macros, whether they are built-in or custom. I have already discovered some edge cases that don’t work perfectly, but for inserting arbitrary HTML snippets or “wrapping” the selected text in the rich editor with a particular style, these custom macros are very useful. With MarsEdit 3.5, custom formatting macros are finally available in rich-text mode. Various complexities prevented this powerful formatting macro concept from being available to users in rich-text mode. These formatting macros are completely user-customizable and allow users to add their own markup templates for virtually any kind of purpose, filling in the details with values from the editor such as the selection, the pasteboard, etc. One of those loose ends had to do with the very powerful formatting macros available in plain-text mode. With 3.0, I added the long-requested “WYSWIYG” rich-text editing that many customers prefer when working with web content.īut given the considerable work to achieve MarsEdit’s rich text editor, there were some loose ends. Previously the app was completely focused on providing a means to edit blog posts in HTML, Markdown, or other text based markup languages.
When MarsEdit 3.0 was released two years ago, it marked a major transformation in the product. This is a free update for licensed MarsEdit customers. MarsEdit 3.5 is now available on the Mac App Store and directly from the Red Sweater Store.
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