When I joined the Mac world in the late 90s, BBEdit was one of the first things I downloaded and installed. It wasn't until I started coding with it in about 20

When I joined the Mac world in the late 90s, BBEdit was one of the first things I downloaded and installed. It wasn't until I started coding with it in about 2001, though, that I realized how limited it was vs. some of the other editors I was toying with at the time. What made me delete it was an episode of data loss in 2005. I hadn't saved; the Mac crashed; I lost data because BBEdit amazingly had no autosave or document recovery features. I wrote in, expressing frustration. BareBones' response was "yeah, we might do that someday. Just save a lot." I switched to TextMate, and then to Sublime, and eventually to Emacs (though I only rarely code anymore). I never owned a BBEdit license again. In that time -- ca. 2005 -- TextMate was picking up a LOT of BBEdit users for various reasons. Of course, now TM is dead and BBEdit is still here. I did just check, though. Apparently, BBEdit now brags about its autosave/recovery features. I guess it turned out to be important to them after all.