The fact still remains that while the development team reads these threads, they have made a conscious decision to ignore it. With regards to their efforts in developing a 'common editor', it's been out far too long to use it as an excuse now. To say that this is a trivial coding effort is an understatement. My primary platform to develop for is Linux, however I've written enough Mac applications to know what this effort would take.
I used it years ago when developing on NeXTSTEP and now for Mac applications.
How do I know, I've been developing software for 25 years! Although Objective-C is not my first language of choice, it is very straightforward once you get past some of its idiosyncrasies.
As I've previously mentioned in this insane thread, anyone with a development background knows what little effort it would take to code this feature. Their development / management team has obviously made a conscious decision that they have no intent on improving their product on the Mac platform. More features will be in the pipeline.Īt this point, there are no more excuses that EN can provide that holds water. As of late 2016 that's part of all the clients it's only now possible to work on upgrades that could be applied to every client. Like I said, they just got through rewriting some important bits of the app. For text only, it's a fantastic solution.)
I can view/edit them on my iPhone or on the web via Dropbox. Files are saved automatically, so jotting down a quick note or idea happens unbelievably fast. I type and results come up, if no note is matched, I can simply finish typing what I want the name of the note to be, hit return and I'm immediately able to write my note with the cursor in the text input of the note. As long as the app is open, I hit option-n, the window comes up with the cursor in the search field. It accesses my "TextDocs" folder at the root of my Dropbox, each note is a separate. (also, I highly recommend nvAlt if your needs are confined to Text/Markdown files. seems a shame that Evernote can't utilize this as well. it gets all that awesome Find & Replace visual pattern based awesomeness. I'm sure some work would be involved in integrating this into Evernote, but once that part was done, Evernote would even get to enjoy any updates Apple makes to that code.Ī lot of applications on the Mac take advantage of this text engine - nvAlt is one that I use everyday. Plus, using the macOS's text editing engine would allow usage of Styles, which would be incredibly useful in Evernote. So if you wanted to search for a pattern with: And then you can replace what you find easily with these tokens. You can build a search query with wildcards for words or digits or spaces or Paragraph breaks, line breaks, page breaks. Using that patterns submenu, you basically have the power of RegEx search and replace, but in a highly visual manner. Icon in the Find field of the Find and Replace bar) is some seriously powerful–and easy to use Pattern-Based search and replace. Hidden in the little menu that itself is not immediately apparent (click on the search glass This is one of the hidden gems of using macOS!
I'm surprised that no one has pointed out that if Evernote were to just use Apple's standard Text Editing engine (the one that TextEdit uses) they could already have an incredibly powerful Find & Replace functionality built in.