Jan 3

This is just a quick post to provide a permanent link to another little plug-in for Coda, Tabster:

http://code.google.com/p/tabsterforcoda/downloads/list

All Tabster does is map Tab and Shift-Tab to Command-] and Command-[, which allows you to indent blocks of text using the Tab key and outdent them by using Shift-Tab. Users of other editors that use these key combinations for block indenting will find this makes switching to Coda a lot easier.

The plug-in requires Mac OS 10.5 and is open source under the MIT license. Source code is inside the bundle and at Google Code.

Enjoy.

Update: Some users with non-English keyboards were reporting issues when pressing certain symbol keys. Version 1.02 should resolve this problem.

Update 2: Will Cosgrove from Panic pointed out some issues with the key press handling in another plug-in, Wrapster, that apply to Tabster also. I have modified the Tabster code to make things safer.

Update 3: I’ve fixed a bug introduced in 1.2 which caused shift-arrow to trigger Tabster. I’ve revved the version to 1.3 and moved the project to Google Code.

Update 4: Added a minor fix that works around an issue on Snow Leopard where the plug-in would stop working after a period of time.