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BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by ofalkaed »

paulrpotts wrote: post #106
ofalkaed wrote: post #84

BBEdit is one of the few apps I miss from the Mac world. ResEdit/Resourcerer are up there as well, being able to naively open up the resource fork and customize applications and sometimes make massive changes to them was great fun.

Truly it was a different world. I learned so much investigating and modifying resource forks!

While I remember those times fondly and with great nostalgia, I think the Apple ecosystem of the system 7 days hindered my learning, it was just too easy. I could open up AppleScript and hit record, perform some actions and then naively change some things to variables and I would have my script. I could open up HyperCard and make a game just by guess and check. I could open up an app in RedEdit and start changing applications. I never had to actually learn anything. My parents bought me a programming book back in those days and I saw little point in making the computer say "Hello, World" and reading through a book when I already had so much power that was effortless to get.

But maybe I just did not see a need for applications beyond the ones I could already get so saw no need to learn to write applications from scratch or was more interested in exploring. Too long ago to remember my motives.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by IAmLiterallyAB »

KerrAvon wrote: post #75
whywhywhywhy wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Works fine on both my M1 machines, never seen this happen once. Maybe try a fresh install and transitioning over your settings bit by bit.

You don't get the SPOD at startup while it tries to replay every FSEvent that's ever happened? Seriously, if that could get fixed, I'd still use TM, it's my favorite editor. But I can't even look at the sources because they're GPL3.

Why does GPLv3 stop you from looking at the source?

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by philistine »

racl101 wrote: post #87

MacOS had two amazing editors before SublimeText and VS Code came along. TextMate and BBEdit. TextMate is no longer supported (if I remember correctly). But BBEdit is still going strong. To this day, BBEdit's diff utility is still my favorite. Also, BBEdit always provided free, incredible and comprehensive user manual PDF.

Nova (née Coda) has been steadily improving and is now a truly pristine mac-ass mac app. It has allowed me to figure out how Git works, how to properly set-up a Linux web server, and most of all has raised my programming abilities.

Nova is a bicycle for my mind.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by leejoramo »

mackid wrote: post #80

Love BBEdit, but you can also get Rich to fix your KitchenAid Stand Mixer. (No joke) Must be an interesting story on how this second career came about. https://www.mixerology.com/

Thank you for this link

As a programmer who has used BBEdit for most of its history, and as the owner of a coffee house/bakery with various KitchenAid mixers.

The Pro Models come with excellent warranties, which I have used several times over the years.

And I have done many repairs myself, using my mechanical knowledge and diagrams from replacement parts sellers

But this site is fantastic. I have already learned much. And I have a machine on my work bench that I known needs repairs that will be much helped by Rich’s site.

If you believe in the right to repair, and you see in the market for a mixer. These KitchenAid models are for you.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by webworker »

philistine wrote: post #115
racl101 wrote: post #87

MacOS had two amazing editors before SublimeText and VS Code came along. TextMate and BBEdit. TextMate is no longer supported (if I remember correctly). But BBEdit is still going strong. To this day, BBEdit's diff utility is still my favorite. Also, BBEdit always provided free, incredible and comprehensive user manual PDF.

Nova (née Coda) has been steadily improving and is now a truly pristine mac-ass mac app. It has allowed me to figure out how Git works, how to properly set-up a Linux web server, and most of all has raised my programming abilities. Nova is a bicycle for my mind.

I was a longtime Coda user in the late 00's early 10's. Moved away to IntelliJ for several years. Recently rediscovered Nova after IntelliJ introduced some memory leak that makes system performance unbearable.

Nova is using, btw, 1/4 the RAM that IntelliJ was using. In addition to looking pretty. And feeling responsive. And not crashing my Zoom calls.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by eschaton »

ssbash wrote: post #20

As a long time macOS user, I’ve seen a lot of praise for BBEdit. However I find it unusable without a way to enable Vim keybindings. It’s great that BBEdit is still going strong 30 years later. But could the team throw us Vim users a bone? Even Panic’s Nova has Vim bindings built in.

Are you trying to use it on an ADM-3A or something?

It’s a Macintosh application, it uses the Macintosh key bindings. If you’d rather use vi just use it.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by sbuk »

baal80spam wrote: post #107

I am quite new to Mac world. Some time ago I looked around for a fast and free notetab-like application, similar to Notepad++ on Windows. Lot of people recommended BBEdit so I tried it and I'm quite happy with it. The only thing I cannot figure out is where is the "reopen all opened files on app restart" option.

The setting that you are looking for is "Reopen documents that were open at last quit" and it's found under "Application" in settings.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by bluepoint »

jtbayly wrote: post #42

Nobody has mentioned the manual. It is fantastic! To this day I still open the BBEdit manual (to chapter 30, maybe?) if I want to figure out how to write some Regex. I’ve never seen such clear and comprehensive instructions on Regex anywhere else.

I got curious and searched for the BBEdit manual. Do you mean chapter 30 (there isn't any) or chapter 8, "Searching with Grep"?
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