PLIST Editor versions

Fast, easy-to-use editor for .plist data, offering more features than Xcode with faster startup and less disk space and memory usage.
1.3
Oct 21, 2017
1.1
May 31, 2017
Review

What's new

v1.3 [Oct 21, 2017]
Improvements
• On mac OS 11 (Big Sur), the Preferences window is enhanced to have the same look and feel as the rest of the apps from the system.
• Adds a new option for "Reopen windows from last session" in "Preferences" → "General" tab.
• You may choose what happens when you reopen the app and no document is opened. Possible choices, available in "Preferences" → "General" tab, are: "Create New Document", "Show Open Dialog" and "Do Nothing".
Introduced in Version 1.29
Improvements
• Adds menu items (and keyboard shortcuts), to quickly move selected items up and down. These are “Editor → Move Items Up” (Command + Shift + Up Arrow) and “Editor → Move Items Down” (Command + Shift + Down Arrow).
Bug fixing
• Fixes some issues which caused the size and position of the windows to not be properly applied after reopening the app.
• Updates and fixes the keyboard shortcuts document (available from “Help → Keyboard Shortcuts”).
Introduced in Version 1.28
Improvements
• Support Apple Silicon.
Bug fixing
• Fixes for macOS 11 (Big Sur).
Introduced in Version 1.27
Improvements
• Now you can sort the PLIST items by clicking the column headers. The sorting can be done ascending or descending and it follows these rules: if two or more items are selected and a column header is clicked, then only those items are sorted. If a single Array or Dictionary is selected, then all the first level children are sorted. If a single Boolean, Date, Data, Number or String is selected, then all the children of the parent containing that item are sorted. A small arrow will be displayed on the column header that was sorted most recently and will indicate how the sorting was done: ascending or descending.
• Adds an additional option to sort by in the “Sort” sheet. This is “By Type” and performs the sorting based on the (alphabetical) names of the types.
Bug fixing
• Fixes an issue that could cause the app to crash when sorting items.
Introduced in Version 1.26
Improvements
• A document containing the keyboard shortcuts from the app is now accessible via “Help” → “Keyboard Shortcuts”
• Adds a small area, located to the left of PLIST tree, which allows you to select, by dragging, multiple items instead of moving them. When the cursor is located within this area it will change its shape to a “right pointing” arrow instead of a “left pointing” one (which usually is). The addition of this area greatly improves the workflow of selecting and moving items using only the mouse, without any keyboard usage.
Bug fixing
• Fixes an issue where “Print” didn’t work as expected, at least on macOS 10.15 (Catalina).
Introduced in Version 1.25
Improvements
• The "Find" button from the toolbar now toggles the visibility of the Find bar.
• By default the application now uses the global "Find" clipboard for sharing the text to search for. This means the text you enter in one application (or in another PLIST Editor document) will automatically appear in another. You can disable this functionality by clicking the "search" (loupe) image in the Find bar (Command + F) and then uncheck "Use Shared Find Clipboard".
• The entries from PLIST tree editor can now be deleted using "delete forward" (fn + Delete). This is in addition to "delete", which was already supported.
• Similar to Xcode, the Boolean values are now displayed using a combox box containing YES/NO. If you want to switch to the old way of having a checkbox, you can do this from "Preferences -> Use a checkbox for Boolean values"
Bug fixing
• The expanded items no longer (annoyingly) collapse when you change their type.
Introduced in Version 1.24
Improvements
• Adds support to create and edit OpenStep/ASCII PLISTs.
• For OpenStep/ASCII PLISTs, the app now preserves the order of the items from a dictionary, showing them in the same order as they are defined in the file.
• Adds three more options to "Edit" -> "Copy As" menu. These are "XML PLIST", "Binary PLIST (Base64 Encoded)" and "OpenStep/ASCII PLIST".

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