Well, jingle our bells! It’s been a little while since we last had anything juicy to report about TypeIt4Me, hasn’t it. December has rolled around frighteningly quickly. Bet you thought we’d keeled over under the pressure to deliver the goods, eh? Not a chance. We’ve just been busy.
In cheery news befitting the festive season: after four months of wrangling with mystery bugs and trying to get our heads around Liquid Glass, TypeIt4Me 7.2 is at last available to download. Those of you who’ve been restlessly awaiting a Tahoe-optimised tune-up can finally exhale. Here’s the customary round-up of everything this latest update brings to the table.
What’s New and Improved in TypeIt4Me 7.2 (238):
Cosmetic changes, under-the-hood tweaks and added features:
- TypeIt4Me has been re-compiled and optimised for macOS 26 Tahoe, with UI tweaks to accommodate the new look Apple introduced in its latest system. The app icon will also properly adapt to your chosen Appearance settings in the Dock (clear, tinted etc).
- The delete button in the toolbar above the snippet list column has been replaced with an expanded action menu with the following options:
Sort By
Show Duplicates / Show All Snippets
Move to
Copy to
Duplicate
Delete
- You can now swipe to delete snippets.
- There’s better support for nesting snippets. You can now insert a snippet from any set, not just the currently selected one.
- Management of duplicate snippets is much improved and there’s automatic disambiguation of unique identifiers.
- By very popular request, there’s now bigger text in the Abbreviation, Label and (plain) Snippet content fields, so you won’t have to squint so much.
Fixed:
- We squashed a bug that could prevent enabling or disabling the iCloud sync option on macOS 26 Tahoe.
- Snippets now correctly expand in uppercase when Caps Lock is on.
- Inclusion of a vertical pipe character no longer causes rich snippets to expand as plain text.
- The special “Paste clipboard here” function now works again in rich snippets.
- The sort order of the set that you click last before closing the main TypeIt4Me window no longer changes the sort order for all the other sets in the point and click menu.
- The “Open backups folder” buttons in Settings > Backups now work correctly on macOS Tahoe.
- When the abbreviation for a rich snippet contains 2 or more numbers, the snippet no longer incorrectly expands in all caps.
- The “strip ’s’ for plurals” expansion setting now works for rich snippets as well as plain.
- Switching to a different set while in “show duplicates” view now correctly refreshes the snippets list.
- Dock / menu bar icon display settings now behave correctly on macOS Tahoe. You don’t need to relaunch the app for changes to take effect.
- Abbreviations that contain previously problematic diacritics and accented characters (e.g. û) will now expand.
- Abbreviations containing non-ASCII characters (Cyrillic, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Greek, Arabic, etc.) are no longer prevented from expanding properly.
- When crafting a pop-up menu, if you name it *after* adding the radio options, the name no longer replaces the final radio option value as soon as you click Done.
- Abbreviations that include numbers now expand with correct capitalisation when you type the first letter with a capital.
- You can now access the full range of rich formatting controls in the Add a Snippet window.
- We’ve also corrected many other minor glitches, missing tooltips and localisation errors. (Do let us know about any outstanding ones, in case they’re not already on our radar.)
…and breathe out.
So, that’s what we’ve been up to all this time. Thanks for being so patient with us while we worked to get this update into the Mac App Store. We’ll do our best not to leave you waiting quite so long for the next update. Riccardo and I are already poring over the To Do list for version 7.2.1 so we can further improve your quality of life. Ultimately, we just want you to be happy. …Oh, hey, that reminds us, we do still need to take an evening off to catch up on Pluribus. Then we’ll get right on it after that.