Coda 1.0.4

After a delay of Copland-like proportions, Panic has released an update to Coda. According to Steven Frank, Coda 1.0.4 “concentrates mainly on the remaining 1.0 bugs, and some important Leopard compatibility issues. That means, I’m sorry to say, no Subversion or Global Find-and-Replace yet. Now that most of the more significant bugs are dead, we’ll once again be shifting our focus to features, so hang in there!”

Still no global find-and-replace. This hurts in deep dark places not discussed in polite society, but at least we get a decent slew of fixes. Some highlights from the release notes:

• “Use Selection for Find” (cmd-e) now works in all modes, instead of just the editor.
• Fixed crash when opening a file that requires authentication to open
• ESC now cancels block edit.
• Externally editing files from Coda now tracks files for publishing.
• Added keyboard shortcut for item-level publish (cmd-option-p).
• Change tracking now works with clips, encode entities, etc
• Creating an archive of a single item no longer adds a directory hierarchy to the zip file
• Copy URL now respects the preference correctly

Also of note is the new Coda Users Google group, which goes towards improving that transparency thing that Panic is sorta not great at.