Few features; not rock solid.

Man, I never write negative reviews (eg: it killed me to take TWO STARS away from this) but feel like it’s worth putting this one out there. I write/design video games for a living and often times write in a text editor in fountain markup because I can shoot pages around to the team that look like a movie and then get them into an editor or a database with little trouble. Figured I’d use Highland given it’s recen Eddy acclaim and I liked that I could check formatting really quickly (furthermore I’m often writing scripts for traiditional media so figured it’d be nice to have). The thing is, I’ve been working in fountain for five hours, on a brand new Macbook Pro (a few days old), running Mavericks, and this app has crashed a dozen times.

Maybe it’s because I’m scrolling too fast with the wheel on a USB mouse? Who knows? It’s still bonkers to me that this app is this delicate — because it’s not doing much. It’s clean and miniamlist but it’s little more than a text editor. I can’t get a line count per character or even a word count for the entire document. I quickly found myself switching back to SublimeText2, a basic text editor, for a rock solid writing environment, a more robust/find replace, and the same syntax highlighting I can get in Highland by quickly grabbing some code found at fountain.io.

Thirty bucks? I probably wouldn’t spend that again — but holding out hope that it becomes more feature rich and more stable now that I have!

seanvanaman about Highland