![]() Notes - We know that many of our customers create a lot of untitled documents for quick note-taking, and rely on BBEdit's legendary stability and robust crash recovery to protect their work. Here are just a few of the things that are new or improved in BBEdit 14: To help catch up, there are also the notes from any older versions that we've released since the last time you've looked. (We spent a lot of time writing those notes, so it would be great for someone to read them. We encourage you to read the complete change notes for all of the BBEdit 14 releases. So what the hell are they doing in the list? For one of the file types, the only options it offered were the two Opera versions plus TextWrangler.Lots. Neither of which (I verified) is installed on my Mac. css files in Dashcode, I noticed in the list of possible applications not one but two versions of Opera. php files in Dreamweaver (which I only have because it came with CS3), and. My point is, as I was going about the business of telling Mac OS X to use TextWrangler for these file types, instead of opening. So there you have it.Īll of which has nothing to do with the reason I’m writing this today. I’ve used BBEdit for years when my employers were buying it for me, but now that I’m on my own, I took a careful look at the feature set comparison chart between the two, realized that I rarely, if ever, used any of the features that BBEdit had but TextWrangler didn’t, and decided that it was ridiculous to pay $125 for features I don’t use, when I could get the ones I do use for free. and no that last one isn’t a filename extension) open in my text editor of choice - which at present is TextWrangler, the free version of BBEdit. I just got a new MacBook and I’m presently going through the ritual of tweaking settings so, for instance, all of the web-type files (.html. (It’s the web browser on the Wii for instance.) But I don’t know anyone who has ever used it regularly on a computer, and I also don’t know anyone who still has it installed, just as a curiosity (or even more justifiably, for testing purposes). I guess it has a niche with certain non-traditional devices. No, I’m not talking about fat ladies singing, I’m talking about the most marginal web browser that somehow manages to keep hanging on. I gave up on PageSpinner and switched back to BBEdit shortly thereafter, because although I liked PageSpinner’s color coding (before BBEdit supported it, or at least before I figured out that it did), it bugged me endlessly that it used proportional fonts. I’ve dabbled with other apps over the years - including PageSpinner in 1996, at the recommendation of my boss at my first professional “webmaster” job*, and HomeSite in the brief period when I mainly worked on Windows 2000 - but guess which program is open on my Mac right now which program I was busy writing code in moments before I read this Daring Fireball article. That didn’t help me to learn HTML, but it became the program I used to write it as I did learn. ![]() The somewhat helpful person in the Gustavus computer store (why did I go there? I guess because I wasn’t taking any CS classes so I didn’t know any of the faculty) told me to download BBEdit, so I did. ![]() ![]() When it’s good enough to be an essential tool for decades.īack in 1994 when I was a junior in college and the web was emerging, I wanted to learn how to build web pages. Is it possible to be excited about a text editor? Well… yes. ![]()
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