BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product • Hacker News Board

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by timestretch » Thu, May 11, 2023, 4:57 PM UTC

voakbasda wrote: post #3

I started programming on Macs in the early 90s, and I used BBEdit the entire time that I was on the platform. I no longer work on Macs, but I would love to see a Linux version. Never going to happen, but it's one of the few pieces of software that I still miss.

I've thought of switching to Linux, but until BBEdit is ported, I'll stay on the Mac.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by theonemind » Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:00 PM UTC

inkywatcher wrote: post #25

BBEdit is invaluable to me and I will use it forever. That said, it has some persistent window focus bugs that spill over into finder that I dearly I wish that they would iron out. Otherwise, it is one of the most stable, reliable, and useful pieces of software that I have ever touched.

Have you filed bug reports? I've found the developers pretty responsive.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by oblib » Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:02 PM UTC

My late `09 Mac Mini blew up a few years ago. I had a spare one a friend gave me that I fired up and when I sent an email to the BBEDit folks asking if could download and unlock that version they gave it to me without any hesitation. All they asked for was my email address. Same with the folks at "Fetch".

Adobe basically told to piss off when I asked for a copy of the version of Photoshop I'd paid for. I downloaded a version of Pixelmator for free instead and haven't given Adobe a nickel since, and I won't ever buy anything from them again.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by CliffStoll » Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:05 PM UTC

I, too, have been using this delightful editor since the early 1990's -- once known as TextWrangler. Still going strong!

Their mission statement is spot on: We don’t have investors to impress, so we don’t need a “mission statement.” We enjoy writing and shipping great products that address the needs of ourselves and our customers.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by web3-is-a-scam » Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:09 PM UTC

been using BBEdit since I got my first mac after graduating university, absolutely wonderful editor

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by jtbayly » Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:10 PM UTC

Someone wrote: post #14

restes wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>formerly TextEdit IIRC TextWrangler. TextEdit is the editor built in to macOS.

And TextWrangler formerly was BBEdit Lite ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBEdit#Freeware_versions )

And now there’s just BBEdit, which is free, but has some features turned off unless you pay. I use the free version, and it is powerful!

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:10 PM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #24

voakbasda wrote: post #3

I started programming on Macs in the early 90s, and I used BBEdit the entire time that I was on the platform. I no longer work on Macs, but I would love to see a Linux version. Never going to happen, but it's one of the few pieces of software that I still miss.

Plus even if there were a Linux version it is now impossible (post-Pango-1.44) to make it display text in bitmap Monaco 9 :) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386

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Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by jtbayly » Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:12 PM UTC

ramesh31 wrote: post #11

My #1 go-to for dealing with large text files. The Electron based stuff like VSCode et. al. completely break down on anything greater than a few MB.

Yes. I have used it to open db dumps (SQL files) that are hundreds of MB.

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by newaccount74 » Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:12 PM UTC

cstross wrote: post #17

Order won't complete (after Paypal payment confirmed) -- "you must accept terms and conditions" message shows up, but no checkbox or other way to accept T&Cs. (Is the BB order website incompatible with Firefox on macOS, or failing due to load?)

Ad blocker?

Re: BBEdit is 30 years old as a commercial product

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Post by ksherlock » Thu, May 11, 2023, 5:13 PM UTC

Lammy wrote: post #24

voakbasda wrote: post #3

I started programming on Macs in the early 90s, and I used BBEdit the entire time that I was on the platform. I no longer work on Macs, but I would love to see a Linux version. Never going to happen, but it's one of the few pieces of software that I still miss.

Plus even if there were a Linux version it is now impossible (post-Pango-1.44) to make it display text in bitmap Monaco 9 :) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/386

I believe you can create a TTF font with embedded bitmaps in it. At the specific size, it should use the bitmap font. At other sizes ... , well, don't do that.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/97#issuecomment-5...