![]() And, I’m going to compare it to the GUI editors that I’ve been using recently: BBEdit, Sublime Text, and VS Code. I’ve reported some bugs, although I may mention a couple here that I didn’t catch until after 1.0’s release. I’ve been using Nova off and on in beta for months. At this point, I suspect nothing will pull me away from BBEdit for technical writing, but for programming I’m open to persuasion. When the Godot-like wait for TextMate 2.0 became unbearable, I wandered the text editing wilderness, eventually splitting my loyalties between BBEdit, Sublime Text, and more recently VS Code. When I was a web programmer, I was one of many who moved to TextMate, and used it for everything for a while. Also, BBEdit’s language modules don’t support extending one another, making it effectively impossible to do full highlighting for a templating language like JSX or Jinja. My suspicion is that BBEdit’s lack of an integrated package manager has hurt it here. When it comes to editing code, though, BBEdit lags behind. The editor that works best for me in tech writing is the venerable BBEdit. I’m an unusual case as far as text editor users go: my primary job is technical writing, and the last three jobs that I’ve worked at have a “docs as code” approach, where we write documentation in Markdown and manage it under version control just like source code. Is there enough of an advantage to a native editor over both old school cross-platform editors like Emacs and explosively popular new editors like Visual Studio Code to persuade people to switch? Pro Tip: I have lots and lots of Mac help and tips here: I’ve been writing about the Mac since I started on Apple gear with the Apple II.Panic, the long-established makers of Mac utility software, seems fully aware that introducing a new, commercial code editor in 2020 is a quixotic proposition. Done for now? Press Options + Command + 8 and the zoom rectangle will vanish. Quite useful even if you have splendid vision, actually. ![]() Note: I had to take a photograph of the screen because the screen capture software doesn’t know that the accessibility utilities are enabled and therefore doesn’t “see” them. Now move your cursor around and watch what happens! It’ll look like this: Press and hold down Option + Command + 8 for just a moment, and the zoom rectangle will show up on screen. Close the window and go back to what you were doing – perhaps reading this very page in your Web browser. Looks good? Click “Done”, then back on the main Accessibility window, click to enable “Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom”. The most interesting of these is ‘invert color’, which can be great if you have any sort of color deficiencies with your eyesight: at any time you can have a portion of the screen “flip” colors as needed. To start, perhaps leave it with the default settings (shown above). My preference is “Picture-in-picture”, as shown, but check the other options out if you’d prefer the entire screen become bigger.Ĭlick on “Options…” to find tune the zoom rectangle if you’d like to tweak its size: To start, check out the Zoom style menu at the bottom. The right side has all the many, many ways you can tweak or modify Zoom to make it work for you. You can experiment with the other features if you’d like, but I clicked on “Zoom” to enable that capability. Notice that they’re organized by assistive technology type: Vision, Media, Hearing, and (not shown) Interaction. The primary categories are listed on the left side. ![]() See it all the way to the right? A click and you’ll see that there’s quite a lot more your Mac can do to help you enjoy your computing and online experience: Then, in System Preferences, find and click on “ Accessibility“: To enable it, choose System Preferences… from the apple menu on the top left of your screen. Press the key sequence again and it’ll vanish. Once enabled, it’s a simple keyboard shortcut – Option + Command + 8 – to have the magnifying lens (oops, sorry, the “zoom lens”) pop up. Indeed, if you’ve ever peered at a photograph, you might just find MacOS “Zoom” a wonderful feature… By default it’s not quite the same as the Microsoft Windows Magnifier, but the concept’s the same: It emulates a rectangular magnifying lens that you would otherwise be holding over the screen to make a specific portion bigger and therefore easier to read or analyze. One of the most useful is the zoom capability.
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