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Re: BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due

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Post by akasakahakada »

miles wrote: post #13

FTA: "We’ve always had the utmost respect for the user. Every internal decision about look and function answers the questions 'What does the customer need?' and 'How can we help them be more productive?' (Not 'How can we give them what they’re asking for?' because that isn’t the right question to answer.)" I experienced this first hand when asking Rich to restore the "hard wrap to window width" feature in TextWrangle…

LOL kind of the same story as mind.

1. I want to change the highlight colour. It is too dim to recognize.

People in the forum asked: hey I don't want hidden settings. Can you make the highlight colour adjustable?

A: No. We won't do it. [1]

[1] : https://groups.google.com/g/bbedit/c/yz_StJa9HVA

2. I forgot if it is the print function or what, it just don't have despite in the year of 2022. Oh wait maybe that is the function "export to pdf".

People in the forum asked: Where can I do that thing?

A: We don't know either. Go find other editor if you want it.

Re: BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due

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Post by edgyquant »

miles wrote: post #25
alwillis wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Since then, I've purchased BBEdit licenses, but use other editors when I need to hard wrap text to window width. BBEdit is incredibly scriptable and extensible. You could have written a short script in AppleScript, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc. to perform this task without leaving BBEdit.

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I can’t believe this has to be said here of all places. GPT-4 is not a search engine of factual knowledge. You can not assume anything it says is true and not just a made up grouping of words that look nice together.

Re: BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due

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Post by tiffanyh »

UltraEdit

I never understood why there was so much love for BBEdit on Mac and so little love for UltraEdit on Windows.

They were both released around the same time, selling to the same audience just on different platforms.

This was also during a time where there was many options.

Re: BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due

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Post by schoen »

tslater2006 wrote: post #10
coolandsmartrr wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not?

Guessing they meant "I have never read" and not telling you to "never read"

"Read" is a particularly unlucky verb for this because its past participle and imperative form are written the same way. Most other English verbs wouldn't have this particular ambiguity.

"Never eaten a Carolina Reaper pepper, but I'm looking forward to my first time."

"Never eat a Carolina Reaper pepper; you'll regret it."

Wiktionary has a few dozen irregular verbs that could produce an ambiguity like this one:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_irregular_ve...

"Never miscast Magic Missile ..."

"Never shut a door on someone's finger ..."

"Never preset the thermostat to 90 °F before going on vacation..."

"Never put an irregular verb in a position where readers might interpret it ambiguously..."

("... but there's a first time for everything, I guess" / "... you won't be happy with the results")

Re: BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due

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Post by neurobashing »

miles wrote: post #25
alwillis wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Since then, I've purchased BBEdit licenses, but use other editors when I need to hard wrap text to window width. BBEdit is incredibly scriptable and extensible. You could have written a short script in AppleScript, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc. to perform this task without leaving BBEdit.

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According to Script Debugger, hardly the massive powerhouse that may end humanity like GPT-4, it's the "bounds" property of a window, specifically the 3rd element.

Re: BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due

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Post by justinator »

miles wrote: post #13

FTA: "We’ve always had the utmost respect for the user. Every internal decision about look and function answers the questions 'What does the customer need?' and 'How can we help them be more productive?' (Not 'How can we give them what they’re asking for?' because that isn’t the right question to answer.)" I experienced this first hand when asking Rich to restore the "hard wrap to window width" feature in TextWrangle…

I remember arguing for tabs, and he was like, "LOL I don't think so". So how'd that turn out?

Re: BBEdit: Where Respect Is Due

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Post by thathndude »

Has Apple done other pieces like this? This is the first time I’ve read one of these, and it was quite good!

I’d always heard Rich’s name tossed around as a developer’s developers, but learned a lot more about him and his thinking from this article.

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