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Have you ever tried BBEdit[+]? I primarily use Emacs (preferring to run it in iTerm2) and VS Code, but BBedit is rarely not open in my dock and for some tasks I
by michaelsbradley 7y ago
Have you ever tried BBEdit[+]? I primarily use Emacs (preferring to run it in iTerm2) and VS Code, but BBedit is rarely not open in my dock and for some tasks I find it indispensable, e.g. complex search/replace in big plain text files. BBEdit's interface is definitely native and ultra responsive.
Even though I use it only about 5% of the time I spend on programming-related tasks, I have been very happy over the years to pay for upgrades to the latest major version of BBEdit.
[+] https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/
- alwillis 7y agoBBEdit was my editor of choice back in the day before I went on the search where I ended up using Vim.
- mattiemass 7y agoChime team member here. BBEdit is an incredible text editor. If you are working with text on macOS, it's hard to beat. But, I've struggled to use it for even basic programming work. It's just not built for that specific use case so much as general text manipulation.
- michaelsbradley 7y agoThat's fair, and I generally agree. For core programming work I found Vim/Emacs superior to BBEdit, and ultimately settled on Emacs because of Magit[+] and my proclivity for Lisp/Scheme. I switch to VS Code when I need/want to use its JS debugger combined with its "cadillac experience" re: TypeScript and JavaScript. Even so, depending on the use case, giving BBEdit a shot is probably worth the download and time spent — it's a great dev tool and I've never regretted paying for the license and upgrades. For example, BBEdit has been invaluable to me in recent years when trying to sort out broken webpack builds and I needed to efficiently hunt through multi-MB .js output files. [+] https://magit.vc/ https://magit.vc/