A text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome.

Latest Version

Version

0.8.4

Update

November 30, 2023

Size

540KiB

Developer

Text Application

Text.app is a simple text editor for Chrome OS and Chrome. It's fast, lets you open multiple files at once, has syntax highlighting, and saves to Google Drive on Chrome OS.

File bugs:
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/text-app/issues

Version 0.8.4:
- Fixed performance of \"Find\" feature

Version 0.8.3:
- Fix cursor type when hovering
- Fix showing drop location when dragging text
- Increase undo history size

Version 0.8
- Upgraded the editor from CodeMirror v5.39.0 to v6
- Updated all of the file type handlers. Syntax highlighting will look different for some files
- Deleted Screen reader mode because CodeMirror 6 has better screen reader support
- Make Find's Previous result and Next result buttons only appear when there are search results

Version 0.7.14
- Added a link showing the keyboard shortcuts (in Settings)
- Improved keyboard navigation in the menu
- Fixed a bug affecting some keyboard shortcuts when caps lock is on

Version 0.7
- Improved the contrast of line numbers and file name text
- Added languages: English (United Kingdom), Spanish (Latin America)

Version 0.6.5
- Fixed emoji handling for multicharacter emojis

Version 0.6.1
- Refreshed App Icons

Version 0.5.186
- Added screenreader mode to settings. Flipping this on turns off syntax highlighting, smart tab, line numbers and various other visual settings but greatly improves screenreader behavior.
- Removed option to turn on analytics, removed all analytics code.
- Added support for files with \"xht\", \"xhtm\" and \"xhtml\" extensions.
- Removed behavior where doing control + s while caps lock was on would trigger a save as operation instead of a save operation.
- Added langauge support for Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish

Version 0.5.167
- Reverted support for kiosk mode due to bugs it introduced

Version 0.5.167
- Support for kiosk mode
- Improved screen reader support
- Disabled zoom shortcut ctrl+scroll

Version 0.5.161
- Support for opening .eml extension files

Version 0.5.160
- Language support added for: da, de, en-GB, es, es-419, fi, fr, fr-CA, it, ja, ko, nl, no, pl, ru, sv
- Dark theme header bar styling changes
- Transition animations added

Version 0.5.157
- UI Update Material Design
- Add warning for unsaved progress on close using shortcut
- Bug fix: translated messages not working
- Bug fix: fail to focus already open window on launch
- Other minor bug fixes

Version 0.5.96
- Bug fix: scroll jumping back

Version 0.5.89
- Bug fix and metrics

Version 0.5.87
- Fix bug: Save As from app close warning not working

Version 0.5.83
- Warn for unsaved tabs on app close
- Fix right click deselects text bug
- Fix build errors

Version 0.5.68
- Mimic Sublime default Tab behaviour

Version 0.5.62
- Chinese translation by @LarkinZero
- Portugese translation by @sergiois
- Bug fixes.

Version 0.5.39
- Bug fixes

Version 0.5.12
- Fix syntax highlighting in Monokai.
- Add Ctrl-Shift-W shortcut to close window.

Version 0.5.7
- Shows how many matching search results.
- Remove old implementation of autosave feature.
- Fix keyboard navigation in confirmation dialog.
- Use newer version of CodeMirror library.
- Suggest 'txt' extension for the newly created files.
- Display 'Loading...' notification when loading a file.
- Switch to the previous tab using Ctrl-Shift-Tab.

Version 0.4.90
- Reopen files on startup.
- Suggest the filename for new files.
- Show file path when hovering on tab name.
- Bug fixes.

Version 0.4.53
- Switch from Ace to CodeMirror editor component.
- Make left panel resizable and remember the state.
- Report errors while saving file.
- Add an option to translate tabs to spaces.
- Underscore the matching bracket.
- Add an option to turn on/off smart indentation.
- Fixed several bugs.

Version 0.4.18
- Fixed a saving bug for M-30 canary.

Version 0.4.12
- Bug fixes and UI tweaks

Version 0.4.1
- Rolled a new version of the underlying code editor
- No longer matching to *.* file extensions on Chrome OS
- Visual tweaks to title bar
- Bug fixes

Version 0.3.16
- Change font size with Ctrl-+ / Ctrl--
- Add an option to switch line numbers on/off.
- Change shortcut for opening sidebar from Ctrl-Space to Alt-Space.
- Disable autosave until the relevant issue in Chrome is resolved.

Source Manifest.json

{"update_url": "https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx", "name": "Text", "description": "__MSG_appDesc__", "default_locale": "en", "version": "0.8.4", "icons": { "16": "icon/16x16.png", "32": "icon/32x32.png", "48": "icon/48x48.png", "64": "icon/64x64.png", "96": "icon/96x96.png", "128": "icon/128x128.png", "256": "icon/256x256.png" }, "manifest_version": 2, "minimum_chrome_version": "31.0", "offline_enabled": true, "app": { "background": { "scripts": [ "js/background.js" ] } }, "permissions": [ "app.window.alwaysOnTop", { "fileSystem": [ "write", "retainEntries" ] }, "storage" ], "file_handlers": { "text": { "types": [ "application/javascript", "application/json", "application/x-shellscript", "application/xml", "text/*" ], "extensions": [ "asp", "aspx", "abc", "acgi", "aip", "asm", "c", "c++", "cc", "clj", "com", "coffee", "conf", "cpp", "cs", "csh", "css", "csv", "cxx", "def", "diff", "ejs", "el", "eml", "etx", "f", "f77", "f90", "flx", "for", "g", "gn", "gemspec", "go", "groovy", "gyp", "gypi", "h", "hh", "hlb", "hpp", "hs", "htc", "htm", "html", "htmls", "htt", "htx", "ics", "idc", "ifb", "jav", "java", "js", "json", "jsp", "ksh", "list", "log", "lsp", "lst", "lsx", "lua", "m", "mk", "mm", "man", "manifest", "mar", "mcf", "md", "mdoc", "me", "ms", "p", "pch", "pas", "patch", "pl", "plist", "pm", "pod", "py", "rake", "rb", "rexx", "roff", "rst", "rt", "rtx", "ru", "s", "scm", "sdml", "sgm", "sgml", "sh", "shtml", "spc", "ssi", "st", "t", "talk", "tcl", "tcsh", "text", "textile", "tr", "tsv", "txt", "uil", "uni", "unis", "uri", "uris", "uu", "uue", "vcf", "vcs", "wml", "wmls", "wsc", "xht", "xhtm", "xhtml", "xml", "yaml", "yml", "zsh" ] } }, "kiosk_enabled": true}

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