TipTyper for Mac

About

After I got frustrated with the default macOS text editor (TextEdit) for doing simple tasks, I decided to make my own custom plain text editor with the stuff I needed. I like using simple editors to make quick fixes on code files and to write notes. Since TextEdit supports RTF, whenever I pasted any content from the web it would transform my text to RTF and break everything. This also happened if you opened an HTML file with it... No good experiences at all.

TipTyper is the product of this frustration. It does everything I need, is lightweight and fully integrated to the most recent technologies from Mac OS X. The features include:

Lines display (hideable, ⌘L).
Words counter (hideable, ⌘D).
Display invisible characters feature (⌘I).
Go to Line feature (⌘⇧L).
Customizable Toolbar with multiple useful buttons.
Automatic Tabs insertion feature to make coding easier. (Disabled by default)
Adjustable Tab size.
Smart indentation algorithm, supporting loose, selected and multiple selected blocks of text
Editor Margin feature, available from the Toolbar.
Characters counter.
True Full-Screen support.
Retina screen ready.
Support for dictation and speech.
Spell check and grammar.
Customisable editor font, background and text color, and text size. File versioning support.
Automatic update checker and downloader (thanks to Sparkle).

The minimum supported macOS version is OS X 10.7, but the latest release was only tested on macOS 10.12.

Disclaimer

TipTyper does not bundle any kind of Malware, including Adwares, Spywares or equivalent. If you had any of these crap installed on your computer after downloading TipTyper from a downloads website, please inform me immediately so all applicable measures can be taken.

Please, only download TipTyper from its homepage (and update via the built-in updater), or from the Mac App Store.

Thank you for your collaboration.

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OS X 10.7-10.11 and macOS 10.12

Current version: 2.7.2 - (Jan 9th 2017)

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MD5 Hash: 3500f80d9e1f3e8ec1774112e582d986

Most recent version.

OS X 10.6 — Legacy

Current version: 2.1.2 - (June 17th 2014)

Download (1.2 MB)

MD5 Hash: 53a4952aa328932e6dd1eb4ab0c39b50

Last version supporting 10.6 (Snow Leopard). The version is now obsolete (as of January 2017) and will not be upgraded in the future.

Source Code

TipTyper's source code is available on GitHub for you to read, fork and modify. Please check out the repository.

Changelog

Version 2.7.2 - (Jan 9th 2017)

Adds TouchBar support.
Fixes some crashes when changing text indentation

Version 2.7.1 - (Jan 1st 2017)

Fixes bug where line counter would become inconsistent when the editor window was resized horizontally.

Version 2.7 - (Nov 5th 2016)

Improved indentation changing algorithm (again).
Improved support for tabbed windows on macOS Sierra (10.12). Use ⌘T to create a new tab in the current window.
Various bug fixes.

Version 2.6.4 - (Mar 23rd 2016)

Improved indentation changing algorithm.
Late improvements for OS X 10.11, and bug fixes.

Version 2.6.2 - (Sep 8th 2015)

Improved file encoding support.
New menu options available: "Reopen with encoding..." and "Save with encoding..."

Version 2.6.1 - (Jun 13th 2015)

New Icon. Updated to match Mac App Store version.

Version 2.6 - (May 24th 2015)

Improved the rendering of the "invisible characters" mode. It might still look wrong on fonts that are not monospaced (fixed width).
Fixed encoding support. Now asks for encoding if it can't detect the correct one, and the current encoding is now correctly displayed in the info bar.
Re-enabled "Reopen with Encoding..." menu item.
Refactored indentation (increase and decrease) code. It should be much more reliable now.
Fixed "Go to Line..." shortcut (⌘⇧L).
General stability improvements.

Version 2.5 - (February 28th 2015)

Stability fixes for multiple OS X versions. App should now work properly on Lion and Mountain Lion.

Version 2.4 - (December 2nd 2014)

New functionality: Option to display invisible characters, such as spaces, tabs and new lines. Activate it from the window menu (⌘ + I) or from the dedicated toolbar icon.
New icon inspired by OS X Yosemite.
Fixed bug where some users would not be able to change the editor font.
Rewrote indentation code from scratch. Should work fine now.
Fixed bug where automatic tabs insertion would not always work.
Some other minor bugfixes.

Version 2.3 - (November 9th 2014)

Fixed bug where TipTyper would change the extension of existing files to txt.
Fixed bug in saving panel, where selecting 'plain text file' would select a bizarre '.(null)' extension.
Improved menu.
Some small improvements in the backend.

Version 2.2.1 - (June 15th 2014)

Fixed bug when restoring file from previous version.
Fixed bug when hiding the info bar.

Version 2.2 - (June 15th 2014)

Fixed bug when trying to open unsupported files.
Highly improved encoding support. TipTyper now tries to detect the file encoding, but you can still reopen it with a desired encoding.
Dropped support to 10.6! In the preparations to support OS X Yosemite some legacy code had to be removed. Sorry :/
Added option to count spaces as characters or not.
Some other minor stability fixes.

Version 2.1.2 - (June 17th 2014)

Last version supporting 10.6. No new features will be added to the version as of now. If bugs are found they may be fixed.
Includes some bugfixes from version 2.2.

Version 2.1.1 - (March 27th 2014)

Removed internationalization support in order to support OS X 10.7 and 10.6 better. Sorry for the trouble.

Version 2.1 - (March 27th 2014)

Added new modular text indentation algorithm.
New hot 'about' window displaying lots of information.
Added support for localizations. App now available in English (en) and Portuguese (pt).
Interested in translating TipTyper? Message me in here.
Tab character size is now customizable!
Some bug fixes a.k.a. App is now more stable.

Version 2.0.1 - (February 24th 2014)

Recompiled to support Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).

Version 2.0 - (February 23rd 2014)

Completely redesigned core and interface.
All new app fully compatible with older versions' features and preferences!
Customizable Toolbar with many useful buttons.
New auto-tab insertion feature makes it easier to edit code. (Disabled by default)
Rewritten many tool functions, fixing numerous bugs in the previous version.
Better support for documents using CR+LF new line characters.
New "editor margin" feature to improve writting long texts.

Version 1.2.1 - (November 2nd 2013)

Fixed annoying bug where file would not be saved despite the App saying it was. Sorry for that.
Added 'go to line' feature! Just press ⌘⇧L.
Added preferences window where user can choose the default colors and fonts of the editor! (Thanks Frederico!).
Improved the Save window, now more consistent.
Some other other bug-fixes in the inner workings (better performance).
Added support to OS X 10.7 (not tested, feedback welcome).

Version 1.2 - (October 14th 2013)

Added multiple encodings support! Now open files in any encoding supported by OS X.
Moved on to Sparkle. Automatic updates! \o/
New data shown on stats bar: lines counting and current encoding.
Fixed bug that caused files to be saved without the extension at all.
Zillions of other bug-fixes.

Version 1.1 - (March 12th 2013)

Added update checker functionality.
Checks for updates on every lauch, but keeps quiet if there are no updates.

Version 1.0.1 - (March 10th 2013)

Fixed bug when opening incompatible files.

Version 1.0 - (March 10th 2013)

Initial Release.

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