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Security: update this file. This release closes issues reported to us and
found in our own review. What they were is described here once people have
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Typing
-or*starts a real list straight away. It used to type a
bullet character that only became a list once you clicked out of the box, so
Enter could not continue it. Now Enter starts the next bullet at the same
level, Enter on an empty bullet ends the list (or steps a nested one back out),
two spaces before the marker nest it, and ⌘Z right after puts the typed
marker back. Typing a marker inside a bullet you already have no longer
paints a second bullet beside it. Thanks to Hermholtz for the report
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Edits another program makes to your open deck are no longer overwritten.
When a sync client, a second editor or a coding assistant changes the file
while it is open here, auto-save and ⌘S stop writing to it and a banner says
so, with two choices. Load the version on disk opens the file as the other
program left it, as one step ⌘Z undoes, and puts your edits into Version
history first; a file that now has a password asks for it. Keep mine
saves your deck over the file once, on purpose, and watching resumes. Before,
auto-save silently replaced the other program's changes, or, once refused,
stopped with nothing but "Save failed". -
More room for speaker notes. Drag the dividers between the current
slide, next slide and notes, or focus a divider and use the arrow keys.
The speaker view's View menu can hide either preview, speaker notes or the
thumbnail strip. Show just the panes you need; notes or a single preview
can fill the content area. Choices last while the editor stays open. Thanks
to @msakowski. -
A deck's pictures are saved on their own line, after the rest of the
deck. Inside the file, the deck used to be one long line with any picture
data somewhere in the middle of it, so a coding assistant reading the file
could not take in the slides without also wading through megabytes of
images. Now the slides come first, and the pictures follow last on a line of
their own; the note at the top of the file tells assistants to stop there.
Older versions of Bento open these files exactly as before. Thanks to
@steventhebrave. -
window.bento.read(): a read for agents and scripts. It returns the deck
without its live-sharing keys, the same copy Save ▾ → Copy document JSON
gives;read({ compact: true })gives the compact form.compact()now leaves
the keys out too, andvalidate()names any sharing key a deck carries,
read-only copies included, with what each one grants.