Drafts 17 (macOS) Released - Editor improvements, Medium support, TouchBar

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Drafts 17 (macOS) has been released in the Mac App Store, details below.

(Also, see what’s new in the iOS version)

Editor Improvements

  • Highlight insertion point option to draw different background for current cursor position.
  • Editor setting to limit max characters per line. Works along with margin settings to determine a maximum line length. Great for use with full screen mode to prevent excessively long lines.
  • For more details, see editor settings docs

Other Additions

  • "Run Action" option in drafts list contextual menu. Allows action to be run on multiple selected drafts. Select drafts and right-click to access.
  • TouchBar support (when available). Uses same configuration options as Action Bar (but can display different action group).
  • Two new monochrome editor themes. Available to select in File > Editor Preferences...
  • Medium action step type to post to Medium.com. Docs
  • Medium script object to support scripting Medium API. Docs
  • Script steps now have a new “Allow asynchronous execution” option. When enabled, the action will wait for a call to script.complete() to know if a script step is finished. This allows use of async/await, Promises and other async function calls…but your script must call script.complete() of the action will timeout and fail after 60 seconds.
  • CallbackURL objects have a read-only url property to debug the URL which will be used with the configured parameters.

Other Fixes and Changes

  • Fix: Hiding action group from list should not remove it from main menu.
  • Fix: Filemanager.readString would not return undefined properly when file was not found.
  • Fix: Inaccurate action directory URLs used for opening actions posted to the directory.
  • Fix: Appending to a flagged draft from the capture window could unflag the draft.
  • Misc. additional fixes and stability improvements.

For a complete history of updates, visit the changelog

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When is the hiding of the App Icon on Dock going to slated for?

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No short term plans to implement. It would require re-architecting the capture window into an entirely separate app which ads a lot of complexity and would limit some of the other functionality I have planned for it.

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the touchbar support is huge :slight_smile: thank you!
now three different action groups can be displayed on the mac :smiley:

I use it for simple actions like archive, flag, add tags and so on :slight_smile:

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