WriteRoom 2.5b public beta

I’m posting a new WriteRoom for Mac preview release as a public beta.

We’ve been working with Kim Young Hoo of Coding Robots and he’s done a great job of squashing bugs and getting this beta ready.

Here’s a highlight reel of the changes and fixes since the last 2.5 beta:

• Cursor position in Full Screen Mode is now remembered correctly whatever your Scale settings.
• If you have your background set to black in Window Mode, the cursor block shows up instead of disappearing. It’s still best to enable “Apply full screen colors to all windows.”
• “Reopen last open documents” is not enabled by default.
• A few more typos fixed.
• Plays well with QuickCursor 2.0 (pending the opening of the Mac App Store). Previously it could fail periodically when getting the text back out.

Download WriteRoom 2.5 beta (70)

Grey is also working on an all-new User’s Guide (and ghost writing this post for Jesse, “Thanks!” says Jesse). It’s not in this version, but it’s coming soon and will focus what makes WriteRoom distinct from other text editors such as TextEdit.

Please try it out and let us know about any bugs and quirky behaviors you encounter by posting in the comments below.