(v0.10.10) Steady

Your place stays put: files open whatever their encoding, and hiding the PDF no longer moves the editor out from under you.

Files

• Files that aren’t UTF-8 now open — a single non-UTF-8 byte used to open the document as a blank tab with no warning. Springer Nature’s sn-article.tex is one such file: its header comments carry Windows-1252 quotes. texspark now falls back through the encodings a .tex file is likely to use, so the text simply appears.
• …and can’t be overwritten with nothing — because that blank tab was live, the next save wrote it straight over the file. A file that genuinely can’t be read is now refused with an explanation instead of opening empty.
• Your file’s encoding survives a save — a Windows-1252 template is written back as Windows-1252, not silently converted. If you type something the original encoding can’t represent, the file moves to UTF-8 at that point.
• The outline, labels, and citations work on those files too — every part of the app that reads a file now shares the same decoding, so the sidebar is no longer empty for them.

Panels

• The editor keeps its width when you hide the PDF — the window absorbs the change instead, shrinking when you hide the column and growing back when you return. Your lines stay the length you set them to, whether the window can grow all the way, only partway, or not at all in full screen.
• …and its scroll position — toggling the PDF used to throw the editor back to the top of the document. You stay on the line you were reading.
• A hidden panel stays hidden — dragging the window edge with the PDF column collapsed made it reappear mid-drag, with the toggle still saying it was hidden. It stays away until you ask for it.