BBEdit reaches v12

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Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 17, 2017 at 09:22 AM

BBEdit—a venerable text editor on macOS—has reached version 12 with a number of new features. It is available at various discount levels depending on when you might have bought a predecessor version.

http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/notes-12.0.html

The authors’ TextWrangler software—which was a free, reduced-feature set version of BBEdit—has been discontinued. The same feature set that was in TextWrangler is now available in BBEdit’s “free demo forever” mode.

BBEdit is an app I always keep in the Dock (taskbar). There are many great features—one of my favorite is the “text factory”, which is essentially a macro engine that will apply a sequence of commands (including Unix command line commands) to the text in a document to transform it. The 30-day demo is worth a try if you work with plain text with any frequency.

(And yes, Bill, when a document is put into “Taskpaper To-do List” mode—and other modes—folding is supported.)

Not available on other OS platforms.

Posted by Dellu
Oct 17, 2017 at 09:26 PM

I also use it for finding and replacing text across folders of files. Very good editor.

But, I don’t like that TextWrangler has been discontinued. Really, many people have emotional connection with this software. It has been a great tool for most people who cannot afford fancy text editors. One of my favorite editors. I even like it for some tasks better than BBEdit . It is a kind of sad that they discontinued it.

Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 17, 2017 at 09:47 PM

As far as I can tell (being a former TextWrangler user) the features it had are present in BBEdit, the look and feel is pretty much the same, and BBEdit offers a “free demo mode forever” for those features. So, doesn’t that maybe get former TW users to the same point?

Dellu wrote:
>But, I don’t like that TextWrangler has been discontinued. Really, many
>people have emotional connection with this software. It has been a great
>tool for most people who cannot afford fancy text editors. One of my
>favorite editors. I even like it for some tasks better than BBEdit . It
>is a kind of sad that they discontinued it.

Posted by Dellu
Oct 17, 2017 at 11:58 PM

Paul Korm wrote:
As far as I can tell (being a former TextWrangler user) the features it
>had are present in BBEdit, the look and feel is pretty much the same,
>and BBEdit offers a “free demo mode forever” for those features. So,
>doesn’t that maybe get former TW users to the same point?

I use Textwranger to edit my tex documents. I run spellchecker application called Antidote on it. I get great results because Antidote communicates with TextWranger pretty well. That is not the case with BBEdit. BBEdit doesn’t respond well. this has been like that from the time I tried to use Antidote on those two apps.

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