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TextWrangler 5.5.2

Bare Bones Software has released TextWrangler 5.5.2 to provide compatibility with macOS 10.12 Sierra. The free text editor also receives many of the fixes and improvements that Bare Bones added to BBEdit (TextWrangler’s elder sibling; see “BBEdit 11.6.1,” 24 August 2016). Notably, the View > Text Display menu gains three new commands (Zoom In, Zoom Out, and Actual Size) and the List Display Font setting in the Appearances preferences now has a slider to adjust the font size. TextWrangler also now features keyboard commands for Check Syntax (Command-K) and Run (Command-R), and fixes bugs that prevented scratchpad documents
from remembering and restoring their state across open/close cycles. (Free, 9.7 MB, release notes, 10.9.5+)

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