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I used the web version and noticed it said it was "for showcase only." How is it different from the other builds? It might be good to add this to the description.

A few other things I noticed in the web version:

The ' character seems to be treated as quotes, I think? So if I write "I don't know" then "t know" (everything after the ' -- even on new lines) is colored differently until I use a ' again. This is a little odd when using it for non-programming language, in contractions (like "isn't" and "it's"). The " character is not treated in the same way.

Also there doesn't seem to be recognition of any hotkey for jumping between words with left/right arrow keys (option on mac, ctrl on pc). I don't think I tried Home or End though.

Thanks for sharing!

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IAMST2 years ago

Hi thanks for your reply but,
-The web build is totally useless as this tool is supposed to be a movable text box on your screen that auto saves everything the moment you type it.

-I do not understand what you are talking about as I did not see the problem? Can you elaborate what you meant

it recognizes both ' and " as quotes.

-The hotkeys work or me. I'm on Linux and pressing Ctrl while pressing left/right arrow key seems to jump between words. I have not tested this build on Windows though.

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wakeman2 years ago(+1)

Thanks for the clarification! It might be good to put that extra bit of information about the web build in the description, or maybe consider removing the web build entirely if it is "totally useless," just to make sure people use the better version. In my experience, people usually choose the web build first, because then they don't have to download anything. (I do this too, I confess.)

About quotes:

There were two issues with quotes I was trying to describe. After checking again, though, I was only able to reproduce one of the issues -- I think I just got confused about the other one.

The reproducible "issue" is just that when we write English, we often use the single-quote character (') interchangeably as an apostrophe (for example, when we write "it's okay" or "we'll be fine"). This means that if you're using TEKST BOKS to write normal English (especially American English, where the single-quote character is almost never used for quotations) the formatting looks strange, because it treats the apostrophe like it is being used for quotation. You can see this in the image below:

This isn't an issue at all if you're only writing code, of course. From the description, though, I imagined using this to take notes and write todos, which would be natural English (not code). Does this make sense?

The non-reproducible issue was that only single-quotes (') seemed to be triggering the formatting change, whereas double-quotes (") didn't. But I think I probably just didn't notice an earlier single-quote, so all my tests of double-quotes were inside a single-quote. (Like where it says "Hi, Ed" in the screenshot.) So I think this isn't an issue, just confusion on my end.

About hotkeys:

I'm testing on Firefox in OSX. I've tried Command, Control, and Option, but none of these jump between words. It may just be an issue with the web build, though -- I have not tested the mac build.

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IAMST2 years ago(+1)

Oh, I didn't realize that the single quotations might produce a problem in normal English. I will remove that as soon as the jam ends. About the web build though I didn't think that many people would download it, so I added the web build, so they could test before they download. But I might remove the web build, I don't know.

Thanks for telling me the issue!

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