id       = "nova"
name     = "Nova"
homepage = "https://nova.app"
description = "The beautiful, fast, flexible, native Mac code editor from Panic."
# Panic's own sentence, the meta description on https://nova.app.

# The apple-touch-icon from nova.app.
icon     = "https://nova.app/apple-touch-icon.png"

# `detect` carries the bundle identifier, the identifier macOS reports for the
# app. It comes from the Homebrew cask, which zaps the app by that name
# (https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask/nova.json): the zap list contains
# ~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Nova.plist,
# ~/Library/Caches/com.panic.Nova and ~/Library/WebKit/com.panic.Nova.
executables = []
platforms = ["macos"]

[installation]
macos_bundle_ids = ["com.panic.Nova"]

[dotfiles]

# The build the cask installs writes the ordinary preferences domain rather
# than a sandbox container — the zap stanza lists containers only for the two
# QuickLook extensions, never for the app itself — and the one location it
# names for Nova's own settings under the user's home is
# ~/Library/Preferences/com.panic.Nova.plist, which is [preferences]. Everything else
# in that stanza is a cache (~/Library/Caches, ~/Library/WebKit), a QuickLook
# extension's container, or the recent-documents list macOS keeps.
paths = ["[preferences]/com.panic.Nova.plist"]

# The caches sit in separate roots, so nothing above needs carving out.
exclude = []

# No whole-file credential among the paths above. Nova's remote-server logins
# are kept out of the defaults domain; the cask names no file for them.
secret = []

# No machine_lines: the preferences domain is the editor theme, fonts, tab
# behaviour and key bindings, which is the reason to carry it. macOS property
# lists have no matcher in this schema anyway — `format` covers toml, yaml and
# json only — so a plist entry is paths and nothing else.