Saturday, July 9, 2011

Tincta - the ultimate text editor

After months of public beta testing, we are proud that today Tincta 1.0 is available from our website as well as from the Mac App Store.

You  might wonder why we build just another text editor for Mac.
But if you look close the editors that are most popular at the moment are still based on Mac OS 7 and are no longer state of the art.
Tincta was written and designed from ground up. It's a Mac OS X native applications and has all over real Mac look and feel.  We don't use any third party code or technologies (besides Mac OS X) and we keep our codebase small and clean. So we can keep Tincta fast, easy to maintain and super stable.

Tincta is a modern 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.

Tincta comes with syntax color profiles for over 70 languages and very fast and reliable coloring algorithms. Because no matter if you do websites or coding, well done syntax coloring is one of the most important features an editor must have.
Tincta's line numbering engine not only is blazingly fast but also manages line wrapping with ease and calculates every line correctly even for large files.


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 and has an in-window live search with highlighting.

And of course Tincta has all the text editing essentials like:

  • vast encodings support
  • search and replace with highlighting
  • change case
  • show invisible characters
  • page guide
  • printing
  • spell checker
  • convert line endings
  • convert tabs/spaces

4 comments:

  1. I can easily "tab" text, but how can I "untab" it? any hotkey?

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  2. Nice app thanks! Text-coloring got a small delay to convert black text to a colored text when we are scrolling down or up, it's a bit frustrating cause we trust the color, but we can't completely because of it's delay...

    Another nice option will be text formating (by example to convert an html document by without BR-codes to a formatted document... (with hierarchy and tabs, and BR-codes) that'll be amazing ! (dreamweaver do it... but I dislike that software, I prefer not to use it !))

    Thanks for you softwares!

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  3. Tincta is a great text editor. It has all the features I need and not a lot of extra stuff to get in the way. I'm so glad to have found it.

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  4. @StRakh: untabbing is available by pressing shift+tab

    @pixluser: coloring has been improved with the latest versions but will become even better in the future. Code cleanup is on our to do list – we found that useful, too :-)

    @SCPaul: thank you

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