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BBEdit 9.0 released
BBEdit has released its eponymous BBEdit 9 text editor, a major update that includes a rewritten project manager, improvements to search and document comparison features, and a text-completion tool.
Find and Multi-File search are now separate commands, both available from the Search menu. The dialog boxes are also now non-modal! Welcome to the 20th century. Also gone is the mysterious "don't find" button.
Text completion appears much like the system-wide F5 trick: a pause will bring up a little pop-up menu of likely options. However, users can change the behavior to only show the menu with a click or keystroke.
Also included in the update is improved language support for JavaScript, Objective C, Obj-C++, Ruby, and YAML. The release notes are enormous, and if you have any niggling irritations with prior versions of BBEdit, they may very well be solved.
BBEdit is $129 for new users, and $30 for owners of existing licenses. Anyone who purchased BBEdit 8.5 and above on or after January 1 gets a free upgrade.
[Via Macworld]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kevin Lipe said 7:06PM on 8-28-2008
Uhh... guys? They're called Bare Bones Software. Hence the "BB" in "BBEdit."
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Jason said 7:59PM on 8-28-2008
BBEdit is a fantastic app, no doubt. But $129 for a text editor is just too steep for me. Especially one that's not very feature-rich. What it does have, it does very well though.
For the times when I'm forced to use Windows (like for work) I own a copy of Ultraedit. It's feature set is simply astounding.
There's a $30 upgrade from any older version, and that's very reasonable. I used to own BBEdit like 10 years ago, but I've long since lost my serial #. Too bad for me.
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Justin Williams said 9:24PM on 8-28-2008
Not feature rich? I'm actually sitting here mouth agape that someone finds BBEdit to be lacking in features. Are you waiting for them to add ponies or something?
Stroh said 6:07PM on 8-30-2008
But they DID add ponies! Check the release notes!
Slartibartfast said 8:54PM on 8-28-2008
Please note, "Educational pricing is available to all students, faculty and staff of accredited educational institutions and schools." BBEdit 9.0 is $49.00-USD
http://www.barebones.com/store/academic.html
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Aaron Davies said 9:41PM on 8-28-2008
Aww, I'm going to miss "Don't Find". I have "cmd-D, cmd-opt-=" muscle reflexes from almost ten years of BBEdit use to change if I make this upgrade.
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Steven said 9:21AM on 8-29-2008
I've been a longtime user of BBEdit, but other apps, like Coda, are becoming just as good, with a better interface.
Textcompletion isn't as groundbreaking as it sounds. What BBEdit still lacks, and one of the reasons I use Coda lately, is codecompletion. For instance in Coda I only have to type an 'e' in a PHP document, and the app completes it with: echo(string arg1 [, string ...]). BBEdit just gives me some useless suggestions from the dictionary.
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Don said 4:13PM on 8-29-2008
No mystery to the "Don't Find" button. BBEdit's Find dialog used to be modal. Many times I've typed an elaborate grep, but then had to scroll a text window to check something before replacing. The "Don't Find" button allowed you to dismiss the Find dialog without reverting the contents of the find/replace text to the pattern that existed from the last search. The other alternative was to copy the pattern to the clipboard before dismissing the dialog, but you still couldn't copy both the find and replace text.
Now that BBEdit's Find dialog is no longer modal, there's no need for the Don't Find command.
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