A new year, a new determination from the Intype team that they will provide more details and be more active within the community. I have my reservations, however one thing is for sure: development is still moving on. A new blog post from Martin Cohen describes the recent changes, and promises some interesting additions to the editor.

Spans allows us to split the document into an virtual fully automated tree. The feature allows us to unify all the required automation we’ve all wanted in a layered manner. With current model of stacked behaviors we were not able to layer the automation effectively (i.e. having paired character automation within a snippet).

This new functionality also affects the undo/redo which is now able to contain the information about serialization and restore it. So you can return back to snippets edited in past through undo. Source: Intype blog

Although some would (and have) suggested that Intype is suffering from feature creep, according to this blog post, they are "finally finishing last tasks for the first internal testing launch of 0.3.5" - news that should make the Intype community very happy!

Watch the Spans video, here: