Tincta

Yay, it's back! NOTE: Tincta is just a raw TEXT EDITOR. It doesn't do fonts, formatting or any other elegant writing features. It's just text editing, great for coding or anything else that's just text. NOTE: The description of the app has expanded. View the App Store listing for details. Here's the current description as a text stream: - - "Tincta is an elegant ONE-WINDOW TEXT EDITOR. It is intuitive to use for personal tasks like writing blog posts or mails. But it also has all functionality you need for professional web designing and programming. Tincta comes with SYNTAX COLOR PROFILES FOR OVER 60 LANGUAGES as well as reliable LINE NUMBERING. We know it's the little details that makes you love a text editor. So Tincta: • supports full drag and drop • indents selected text when you press tab • knows when an open file was changed by another application • features block selection • allows in-window live search with highlighting And of course Tincta has all the text editing essentials like: • vast text encodings support • live search and replace with highlighting • change case • show invisible characters • page guide • printing • spell checker • convert line endings • convert tabs/spaces

For anyone new, please note that Tincta has now gone Open-Source ! This is great news as it means the easy-to-use text editor will now receive updates whenever someone contributes to the project. Most of the comments in this thread are very old from the time when this app was privately developed. So, go ahead and try it out !

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

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?

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.

The link on MacUpdate downloads 2.0.2. The link on the developers site downloads 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 :(

I really like the new icon!

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?

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.

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 :)

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)

"one-window text editor" The trend to all-in-one application programs, especially programmer's text editors, is one of the worst interface ideas in decades. It is an extremely poor use of precious screen real estate, especially for laptop users. It's like Windows 1.0 all over again.

Is there Tincta for OS X 10.5?

Thanks developer, for this awesome app.

Please don't take this the wrong way, because it's just how i am, but personally i can't even begin to use an application with icons (both the main application icon, and the toolbar etc icons) that IMHO (i.e. a personal preference) look less pretty than what i would expect from a modern OS X application. I'm sure some of you think the icons look awesome though. :) Just saying!

Awesome editor, dig the octopus.

Very, very fast and simple editor. I like it.

Nice app indeed. I use it instead of Fraise which was also good but quite often would not open a second file, when one is open. This one opens as many files as you wish. The only thing I would like to have is the possibility to save files in any directory, given in the Preferences. It always suggests to save in Home directory, and I always change it to Desktop. The Preferences do not have this option.

Dear developer, thank you for creating a very nice tool, that I can use to play around with HTML, CSS and another files around website coding. I love the simplicity, all the features are easy to access. Only thing I'd change are the purple icons inside the interface. I'd switch it to something more Mac like - it's 8 icons if I'm not mistaken. The main app icon is awesome though. Otherwise when Lion comes out, it will need some stability improvements (on DP4 it's quite unstable).