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Potentially - I laid some groundwork to be able to share preferences between Hype and Whisk. At the very least you can use Whisk as an external editor for Hype .
These won’t be for v2.0 since the primary goal was in feature modernization, but clearly they are pretty top missing editor features . Any editor features are basically two for the price of one since they apply to both Whisk and Hype!
You can drag files into the watched files table to add them. Also you can control/right-click on each for additional functionality of showing in the finder or choosing an application to edit in.
Another note about watched files: if one is opened in Hype, editing it will trigger a reload and use the current in-memory contents of the file, so you do not need to save.
Final note: you can drag in folders to watch all files within that folder. This is probably most useful for dealing with PHP where there may be required .inc files that wouldn’t be automatically picked up but you still want to have reload.
• I was going to post “Are open documents meant to reload when you open another document.”
But I notice that this happens if even if you move around the open dialogue
• The open Dialogue lets you select files that Whisk cannot open .i.e .hype files.
If you do try and do this any further attemps to open a document will fail.
Nothing opens.
You have to quit Whisk.
That’s kind of hilarious; I haven’t been able to reproduce it though. I’m curious what your watched file in this case was? Was it the containing folder like Documents? Perhaps you can DM me a screenshot of the finder folder and the watched file list for this? My guess would be that it was seeing changes to a .DS_Store folder or something like that.
Yes, it has problems when trying to open a folder. Thanks for the report - I will fix.
I tried reproducing on 10.11 but had no luck; if you see this again can you let me know and send the file that isn’t being added? Thanks!
I noticed that I was nit able to search all the time.
One minute it would search. I would maybe nav around the open docs, go out the app and back and suddenly the search pane I had open would just beep at me! Like it either could not search or did not find the text I knew was there!
Resorted to closing it and trying again. Did not always work.
Yesterday I finally realised what is going on.
I either selected the right hand preview pane in a open doc when clicking into the app or the focus went to that one way or other.
The search seems to need the left hand edit pane in focus to search.
This makes sense but was not obvious. And was driving me nuts
I guess since the search can only search in the edit pane it would be good if when you select or open a search the focus automatically goes to the edit pane.
Thanks for the feedback. We did get feedback for “find” to work in the web view, but it probably just makes sense to make the text view focused when a find is initiated so it looks there.
