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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.
I read about BBEdit on HN a few months ago and realized it has one use-case where it excels: text transformation and regex search/replace across files. When it comes to this, no other editor I know can hold water: neither Sublime, nor VS Code, nor Vim. And forget about Emacs, as regexes need to be awkwardly double or triple backslashed. Text transformations can be done via regex, predefined functions, or any scriptin…
This is why BBEdit is still my absolute go-to as a technical writer. I’ve found other editors that are prettier, but it’s just so darn good at text manipulation it’s hard to believe. While I drifted away from BBEdit for coding a while ago, BBEdit 14’s LSP support has pulled me back to some degree. I put together a decent Elixir package for it and, to my own mild surprise, like it more than Panic Nova or Doom Emacs. (…
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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Ha, I missed that. Ok, we've incremented its age in the title above. Thanks! (Submitted title was "BBEdit is 30 years old") Edit: some people didn't like "BBEdit is 31 years old" so I took another crack at changing it. Edit edit: never mind. Edit edit edit: never never mind.
I think you were too trigger happy in changing the title. It's a poor reflection of the link now.
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Ha, I missed that. Ok, we've incremented its age in the title above. Thanks! (Submitted title was "BBEdit is 30 years old") Edit: some people didn't like "BBEdit is 31 years old" so I took another crack at changing it. Edit edit: never mind. Edit edit edit: never never mind.
It looks like the occasion is the 30th anniversary of Bare Bones Software (the company): https://www.barebones.com/company/ >. Perhaps the original submitter mistakenly interpreted the "30th Anniversary special pricing” text as applying to the BBEdit program itself.
Edit: that didn't work.
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.
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I think you were too trigger happy in changing the title. It's a poor reflection of the link now.
Ok, I've taken another crack at it!
"On this day in 1993, Bare Bones Software (not yet "Inc.") released the first commercial version of BBEdit." https://mastodon.social/@bbedit/110350464886512663
This doesn't say when exactly Bare Bones Software was founded.
The anniversary celebrated was the commercial version of BBEdit released on May 11, 1993. Not the anniversary of the company. Not the anniversary of the the non-commercial version.
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Ok, I've taken another crack at it!
Still not great. "On this day in 1993, Bare Bones Software (not yet "Inc.") released the first commercial version of BBEdit." https://mastodon.social/@bbedit/110350464886512663 This doesn't say when exactly Bare Bones Software was founded. The anniversary celebrated was the commercial version of BBEdit released on May 11, 1993. Not the anniversary of the company. Not the anniversary of the the non-commercial version.
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Still not great. "On this day in 1993, Bare Bones Software (not yet "Inc.") released the first commercial version of BBEdit." https://mastodon.social/@bbedit/110350464886512663 This doesn't say when exactly Bare Bones Software was founded. The anniversary celebrated was the commercial version of BBEdit released on May 11, 1993. Not the anniversary of the company. Not the anniversary of the the non-commercial version.
Ok - in that case '31 years old' is about as close as I can think of to accurate, and I've reverted to that.
"BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product"
"30th anniversary of BBEdit as a commercial product"
"Bare Bones Software released the first commercial version of BBEdit 30 years ago"
Plenty of fine, accurate, straightforward titles to choose from, yet you keep doing weird, misleading stuff with it.
In fact, the original submitted title was fine, and clear enough.
It's apparently true that there was a free version of BBEdit released on April 12, 1992. But that is not what is being celebrated now. It's largely irrelevant. Rather, it's the non-free version released on May 11, 1993. That's why there's "30th Anniversary special pricing" of $30 with coupon code “BBEDIT30”.
30, not 31.
BBEdit, not Bare Bones Software (the exact anniversary of which is unknown).
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Ok - in that case '31 years old' is about as close as I can think of to accurate, and I've reverted to that.
Sigh. I don't really understand why you're having such trouble with this? "BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product" "30th anniversary of BBEdit as a commercial product" "Bare Bones Software released the first commercial version of BBEdit 30 years ago" Plenty of fine, accurate, straightforward titles to choose from, yet you keep doing weird, misleading stuff with it. In fact, the original submitted title was fi…