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BBEdit is turning 25
- mvexel 8y agoI don't think there was an article, hence the link to a merch page, sorry about that. I was a BBEdit user in the late 90s / early 00s. Interesting to see they are still around. I thought it was a magnificent editor at the time.
- mvexel 8y agoNot much better but there's a press release also. https://www.barebones.com/company/press/bbedit_25_anniversary.html https://www.barebones.com/company/press/bbedit_25_anniversar...
- flarg 8y agoSeems like the biggest advantage of Macs is not the OS, or the hardware but the unique and powerful software provided by 3rd parties (heavy Linux and Win7 user)
- tracker1 8y agoYou get a unixy environment, with pretty nice UI defaults, and applications that are generally also very consistent in terms of usability. That said, I do use it a lot, but almost all the applications I use daily are cross platform (MS Teams, VS Code, Node, Chrome, etc). 8 years ago, I never thought two of my favorite apps to work with would be MS written apps using Electron (Chrome) that actually are nice to use.
- steve1977 8y agoYes and no. It is, but the the OS and the hardware probably help (and inspire?) 3rd parties to develop this software.
- scelerat 8y agoBBEdit’s multi file regex search and diff tools are great and so is the file browser, which is why I keep it around even though I do nearly all my actual editing in MacVim
- hboon 8y agoWhat's nicer about BBEdit's diff-ing than MacVim's?
- scelerat 8y agoA few things: 1. A third pane which shows a summary of all the diffs between the two compared files. It's point-and-clickable, and has a point-and-click bi-directional Apply button to apply changes in either direction. Easy to arrow-key through the changes and apply the changes from the keyboard, too. 2. Character level diff -- not just different lines but will also show you characters which have changed. 3. Directory level diff shows files which have changed on a per-directory basis BBedit integrates very easily with command line tools with the 'bbedit' and 'bbdiff' commands, so you can use it with difftool-type commands. https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit11.html https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit11.html
- hboon 8y agoHmm, ok. Check out vim's `diffthis` and https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive if you haven't. It sounds like it does the same thing. I'm suggesting this because you already use MacVim, so you'd get your familiar buffers and keystrokes, among other things.
- wkearney99 8y agoDoes it still "suck less"? I loved that ad tag line they used back in the 90's. Shame it's only on MacOS. Notepad++ manages to handle a lot of my text editing needs pretty well lately.
- uptime 8y agoI still use it daily on my mac. I use vi in the terminal and vscode more and more, but I find myself with bbedit open too. I wish it had md and rst renderers built in, but i still love it.
- classichasclass 8y agoStill using old school Carbon and classic BBEdit Lite on my Power Macs. No other text editor ever came close.