Tincta

Name: Tincta
Rating: 3.3636 (8 reviews)

4.0.1

24 February 2020

Fast and intuitive text editor.

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Overview

Tincta is an elegant one-window text editor that is intuitive to use on personal tasks like writing blog posts, letters or grocery lists. But it also has all functionality you need for professional web design and programming.

Features

Syntax coloring for over 60 languages
Live search with instant highlighting
Reliable line numbering
Preview in browser
Vast text encoding support
Show invisible characters
Page guide
Spell checker
Convert line endings and tabs
Block commenting

What's new in Tincta

Version 4.0.1:

Fixed:

Tincta would crash when back-tabbing at the end of a file
Links to support website in Help menu were broken

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23 Tincta Reviews

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Derekcurrie

21 November 2016

Most helpful

This is abandonware, no longer available from the developer. His only app at this time is Workabulary.

Like (2)

Version 3.1

Derekcurrie

21 November 2016

This is abandonware, no longer available from the developer. His only app at this time is Workabulary.

Like (2)

Version 3.1

1 answer(s)

mghty

11 February 2017

You are wrong. Fault is with Macupdate!

The app is available for free in the App store.

Like (1)

There is an annoying line down the middle of the page whenever I load a text document with Tinca. How do I remove that annoying line that is in middle of every page, running from middle top to bottom?

Version 2.2.3

1 answer(s)

Mr. Fridge Software

31 May 2014

That is a page guide that (by default) shows the 80 character column which in many coding guidelines is the maximum line length. You can easily turn the page guide of in the Preferences.

Like (3)

Mondele

04 December 2013

I'm sure Tincta is a wonderful editor, and all of that, but it's the first program I've ever encountered that required me to agree with the user's religion in order to use it. No thanks. There are enough code editors out there that I don't need to embrace your green religion to write code.

Like (2)

Version 2.1.1

6 answer(s)

Markie205

10 January 2014

Your posting is nonsense and has nothing to do with the efficacy of the software. --

Like (6)

Xenophile

10 July 2014

I evaluated Tincta and have not the slightest idea what you're babbling about.

Mondele

10 July 2014

My posting isn't nonsense, and the license is a very important part of a program. If you don't have any idea what I'm talking about, there are continuing ed. programs to help you with that.

Markie205

10 July 2014

Let me be clear about my comment. I look for user experience to see whether software is useful. So Mondele's original comment doesn't add value, just wastes bandwidth --

Big-Mac-XXL

03 August 2014

*LOL* I just downloaded Tincta to see the environmentalist statement of faith that I as a user have to agree to if I want to use this software. And indeed, they write:

Anyway to use Tincta you must agree to the End User License Agreement (EULA) beneath. This EULA also contains a paragraph which obliges you to do something to stop global warming or reduce pollution. It is up to you to decide what actions you will take; Mr. Fridge propose:
- replace a conventional light bulb with an energy efficient CFL-bulb
- go to work by bike (of course: bicycle not motor cycle)
- buy a new fridge
- or just put your computer to sleep when you leave for lunch

OK, I will today butcher one of my chickens to reduce CO2 greenhouse gas emissions. And to reduce waste I will fry the chicken in my green colored pan and will eat its delicious meat while wearing a green Robin Hood hoodie. This entitles me to use Tincta with a pure conscience.

Mother Gaia will love me!

Like (1)

Mikael-B

25 November 2015

This is not a religious request, so Mondele's response is indeed nonsense in that regard.
Free software should be free IMO, but any developer is free to set any fee or another requirement for an action in order to use the software. It's up to the user to make the decisions.

I wouldn't like this to be common place, even as I think every developer can do what they want.

Like (1)

Rondfranks

16 February 2013

The link on MacUpdate downloads 2.0.2. The link on the developers site downloads 2.0.3.

Version 2.0.3

I'm very dissapointed that the programmers abandoned Snow Leopard and that they couldn't work out how to get this to work on Snow Leopard :(

Like (3)

Version 2.0.3

2 answer(s)

Barisart

10 February 2013

Really? 3 bad ratings for a free Application although the developer explained their move of abandoning SL? I use this editor since version 0.something and I have to say that it got better with every update.

Like (4)

Filp

21 March 2013

@Tony2013. Three bad-star reviews in little more than a week because it doesn't do what dev already explained it couldn't do? And a free app at that? Grow up.

Like (5)

When will this text editor work on Snow Leopard? Every single version has always crashed for me. I have never seen an App for Mac not being able to be fixed by the programmers like this before?

Like (1)

Version 2.0.2

Would love to try this App, running Snow Leopard, unfortunately I ran the very latest hotfix, but it crashes as soon as it loads: Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Errors. I am hoping a fix is released in the near future.

Like (2)

Version 2.0.1

1 answer(s)

anonymous-skink-4656

01 February 2013

I confirm that version 2.0.2 has stopped working again on Lion :( Version 2.0.1 works well and will stay with her.

anonymous-skink-4656

30 January 2013

After repairing errors (very quick response of developers) it works perfectly. It is simple and fast but has great potential. A small note: As someone points out a nice look - I suggest to hide the toolbar - the icons are a bit weird :)

Version 2.0

1 answer(s)

Tony2013

01 February 2013

Tried version 2.0.2, but it also crashes for me with an Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) ERROR.

I've been able to run version 2.0. The program closes immediately. (EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL). 1.3.1 version works without a problem. (Mac OS X 10.7.5)

Version 2.0

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