BBEdit 14 • Hacker News Board

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by haroldp » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 4:01 PM UTC

> We know that many of our customers create a lot of untitled documents for quick note-taking, and rely on BBEdit's legendary stability and robust crash recovery to protect their work. We've added a new "Notes" feature in BBEdit 14...

Ooh, guilty as charged. I see an "Untitled text 931". It's a list of hostnames. "Untitled text 107" is a Beef & Broccoli recipe.

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by rubyist5eva » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 4:05 PM UTC

I switched to Nova about 6 months ago - great editor and development seems supercharged compared to BBEdit.

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by macrael » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 4:05 PM UTC

LSP is a game changer simultaneously raising our expectations for a code editor and lowering the bar for editors to get there.

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 4:05 PM UTC

DJBunnies wrote: post #9

Holy cow, this the same BBEdit I used as a teenager with System 7. Incredible. Makes me nostalgic for resource forks & resedit.

Yup. I've been using it for at least that long.

I've tried "trendier" editors, from time to time, but always end up going back to BBEdit.

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by talentedcoin » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 4:12 PM UTC

Can someone here explain to me the appeal of BBEdit? I’ve tried using it several times but it never clicked with me. (I’m an Emacs user.)

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by mistrial9 » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 4:13 PM UTC

how can one author say "I have spent more than a thousand productive hours using your product" ?

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by jmull » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 4:16 PM UTC

I should probably switch back to BBEdit for my daily editor. It's the editor I reach for when I hit one of the cases that chokes my other editors.

I guess it would already be my daily editor except for some gaps.

LSP probably closes one main gap for me. Now that I'm looking I see some other gaps are also closed.

(Though a remaining big gap is that I have to do a lot of work on Windows and some on Linux, and I'd rather not have two different daily editors.)

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by ibic » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

Saw this editor names several times before, but never used it. Out of curiosity, how does it compare to Sublime Text?

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by ziml77 » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 4:17 PM UTC

macrael wrote: post #13

LSP is a game changer simultaneously raising our expectations for a code editor and lowering the bar for editors to get there.

LSP was such an awesome idea. It's amazing to me that this wasn't a thing before Microsoft introduced it in VS Code. It's incredibly useful for every editor.

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by dhruvbhatia » Wed, Jul 21, 2021, 4:24 PM UTC

talentedcoin wrote: post #15

Can someone here explain to me the appeal of BBEdit? I’ve tried using it several times but it never clicked with me. (I’m an Emacs user.)

My story is rather dated and admittedly only one data point, but when I was in my early teens (early 2000s), WYSIWYG editors like Frontpage and Dreamweaver were the tools I used to self-learn the basics of web dev. The issue though was that those editors were rather bloated and ran very poorly on the machine my mother had bought me, so it became increasingly favourable to seek something lighter weight and non-WYSIWYG as I learnt more about the languages of the web and grew more competent. stumbled upon BBEdit and used it to a) grow my knowledge of the languages and; b) be able to build things in a more productive manner without the computer grinding to a halt. I think perhaps learning to code through WYSIWYG and then migrating to text editors is a common pathway?