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Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by tumultco »

ilovecaching wrote: post #2

I use BBEdit and love the editor (esp. love the new LSP support), but have hated the name and the icon for a long time. I have all these beautiful macOS icons, and then there's BBedit with it's weird acronym name and encyclopedia looking icon. Maybe it's time for a rebranding for the next generation! But seriously, BBEdit IMO beats out VSCode for speed and stability by a mile if you're a macOS user. And you're suppor…

I made a revised icon that imho fits in better with the Big Sur's look and works at Dock sizes:

https://twitter.com/jmfd/status/1417595485653635073

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by mactunes »

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.

Yes, same here! I got my first Mac with 7.5.3. It was a Performa 5200CD. Good times :)

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by adrusi »

mrehler wrote: post #36
ibic wrote: post #18

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

I like the completions of Sublime text a lot better for most tasks. ST’s packages are also really powerful and BBEDit isn’t extensible in the same ways (though it is through AppleScript and a host of other things). After the 30-day “trial” is up, the features in its free version are more than worth keeping it installed for. I keep an active license for it in addition to Sublime Text because it’s my preferred tool for…

After the 30-day trial expires, BBEdit becomes what used to be a separate application from the same developers called TextWrangler. TextWrangler was my first code editor because my dad had it installed on the family iMac for its sophisticated grep capabilities.

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by sandyarmstrong »

munificent wrote: post #25
ziml77 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> It's amazing to me that this wasn't a thing before Microsoft introduced it in VS Code. For what it's worth, the static analysis infrastructure we built for Dart was designed this way and, I think, existed slightly before LSP. We used it to provide a nice Dart IDE experience in the Dart Editor (a custom build of Eclipse), IntelliJ, Emacs, Vim, etc. without having to reimplement everything multiple times.

Cool stuff. I think there were a few similar efforts going on. For example, LSP was based on the protocol developed for OmniSharp, which was an open source .NET-specific implementation started in like 2013 by a Vim fanatic.

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by artiszt »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #14
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.

yap. not to forget TextWrangler

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by indigodaddy »

haroldp wrote: post #11

> 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.

Notepad++ on Windows has been the standard bearer for this functionality for quite a long time.

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by jfb »

I really wish it supported keyboard rebinding. I really wish this. I would happily pay for it, over and over again, but the tab key behaviour when editing structured text is just ... wrong.

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by artiszt »

LukeBMM wrote: post #26
ibic wrote: post #18

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

With the caveat that I've relatively little experience with ST, they're in the same ballpark and probably roughly equivalent. BBEdit is probably dated in some ways and mac-only, but _possibly_ even more stable and quicker than Sublime Text.

coding can be slightly more comfortabale with ST depending on its plugins, for instance Julia is a treat given that VS Code can't be silenced to ST-standards [code-sensing-wise : eg ZenMode under Win may only work full-screen; attempting to switch off all code-sensing won't work, always something 'popping-in' when moving abouts in the editor -- that's how M$ is : either overdoing it and not getting the most basic things right or getting part of it right w/out providing options users desperately ask for : they decide what's best pratise for users and that >feelbesides, BBEdit can be incredibly fast when it comes to larger files, sorting and in particular regex-search

[never ever employed any Mac w/out ST, BBEdit, FileBuddy and DiskWarrior; HexEdit and few other free utilities, and one could get work done quite efficiently]

Re: BBEdit 14

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Post by racl101 »

Great, solid, reliable editor. Great documentation.

And don't sleep on the diff tool bbdiff. For text diffing it's pretty fucking good.

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