What happened: noticed a status under the title of open file in tab was indicating “Editing”
What did you expect to happen: Well, once autosaved happens I guess I would expect instead of “Editing” it would say “Saved”. This seems like a new feature along with the menu items “Begin Editing” and “End Editing”.
I don’t know what those menu items are supposed to be doing and when I click “End Editing” the only change is the menuitem reverts back to “begin editing”.
At some point as I was typing this, the status changed from “Editing” to “Edited”, not sure how that happened. When that happens, the menuitem still says “End Editing” and if I click those menu items I don’t see any change in status, just menu item changes. If I start editing, the menu item changes.
If these actions are supposed to be connected they don’t seem to be. I’m a bit confused over how I use these menu items and what the status is supposed to reflect.
On macOS, documents save automatically as you go. There’s no real “Saved” state to show, because your changes are already on disk almost immediately. “Editing” / “Edited” just means the document has changes since your last explicit save point; it’s not a warning that anything is unsaved.
So basically it’s telling you “you’ve made some manual edits,” and it’ll clear once you manually save. This is the default macOS behaviour
As for “Begin Editing” / “End Editing”: they just move focus between the editor and the sidebar: Begin Editing puts your cursor in the text, End Editing moves focus back to the sidebar.
It can be for accessibility, but the main reason is that a lot of people prefer not to reach for the mouse if they can avoid it. The app should let you do most things from the keyboard alone (Bear is already there, Lettera still needs some work on this front).
