What’s New in SnippetsLab 2.3

Aug 2, 2023

Major Update

New Markdown Preview Features: Customize Markdown preview with new features and options:
- Check spelling and grammar.
- Treat newlines as line breaks (choose between CommonMark vs. GitHub style).
- Automatically convert ASCII symbols into their corresponding special characters. For example (c) to ©, (tm) to ™, =/= to ≠, etc..
- Sticky table of contents.
- Copy button when the mouse is hovering above a code block.
- Soft-wrap code blocks.
- New option to toggle per-snippet Markdown preview mode.
Markdown Snippet Rich Text Style: The Markdown editor now supports rich text styles and automatically applies appropriate font size, weight, style, background color, and more.

Added 33 new languages, including Arturo, Berry, Carbon, CSSUL4, COMAL-80, Cplint, Dax, Fift, FunC, GAP session, JMESPath, Jsonnet, K, MCFunction/MCSchema (minecraft), MediaWiki Wikitext, MIPS, Macaulay2, Phix, Portugol, PostgreSQL Explain, Q, Qlik, SNBT, Sql+Jinja, Tal, Tl-b, UL4, Unix/Linux config files, WGSL (WebGPU Shading Language), World of Warcraft TOC, Wren, and X++.
Added the ability to preview the contents of backup libraries.
Added the Nord theme.
Expanded the share menu with additional options such as exporting and GitHub publishing. Non-Markdown snippets can now be exported as HTML as well.
When importing from Quiver, images are now automatically converted to Markdown image links.
The app now remembers the setting for whether to publish a gist as secret.
Improved the search ranking algorithm.
Added the Command modifier key for SnippetsLab Assistant actions, allowing separate actions for click, Option-click, and Command-click.
Added integrated search bar for Markdown preview.
Substantially improved the performance of Markdown preview.
Improved the accuracy of Markdown scroll sync.
SnippetsLab Assistant now mirrors the main window’s sorting behavior.
The notes area’s font size now matches the main editor.
Improved syntax highlighting for various languages.

Global default language setting now works correctly with SnippetsLab Assistant.
Fixed cursor display issues over line numbers.
Fixed a bug that causes some text files to be unselectable when importing plain text files.
Fixed an issue where newly created fragments would ignore the global default language setting.
Fixed an issue where rich content copied from other apps may be pasted as image attachments.

Sep 12, 2023

Added over 600 new symbols for folders and smart groups.
The app now automatically trims surrounding whitespaces when entering tags.
Enhanced brackets and quotes autocompletion.
Added an option to disable highlighting code blocks without explicit languages in Markdown preview.
Added the ability to drop files into the editor to insert as attachments.
Improved full text search algorithm to provide more relevant results.
The app now automatically selects the matching fragment when searching and performing actions in SnippetsLab Assistant.
When exporting a Markdown snippet as HTML or plain text, the associated attachments are now also included.
Alfred workflow now supports Alfred Universal Action.
Stability and performance improvements.

Fixed an issue where detached preview windows do not retain the previously selected fragment.
Fixed an issue where Markdown attachment images may not display correctly in the preview.
Fixed an issue where bold-italic text and headings are not typeset correctly in the Markdown editor.
Fixed an issue where reordering attachments via drag and drop may not work correctly.

Sep 29, 2023

Oct 19, 2023

Fixed an issue with “Paste directly to active app” assistant action when using macOS Sonoma.
Other bug fixes and stability improvements.

Dec 9, 2023

Addressed a potential crash that could occur when creating backups.
Eliminated an issue where copying code blocks from Markdown preview resulted in an unwanted trailing newline character.