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I love BBEdit, primarily because there is an actual user interface (and good documentation) for most of the features I use. I know that, in principle, anything
by nickm12 15y ago
I love BBEdit, primarily because there is an actual user interface (and good documentation) for most of the features I use. I know that, in principle, anything is possible with emacs but in practice I always have trouble finding functionality.
I do have two constant annoyances with BBEdit, though. One is the syntax highlighting isn't as good out of the box as the competition. The other is that the tab key doesn't automagically indent my code like in emacs. I've given up hope on these features ever coming to BBEdit. After 20 years, if they're not there chances are good they never will be.
- mminer 15y agoThere is an option to have the tab key indent code. I can't recall which version of BBEdit this feature was added in, but it can be enabled in the Keyboard preferences ("Allow Tab key to indent text blocks").
- nickm12 15y agoSorry, this is not at all what I want. When I'm editing code in a language with curly braces, there is exactly one correct place for a line of code to be indented. In emacs, pressing tab puts my line of code in the right place. In BBEdit, it just inserts a tab.
- mminer 15y agoI see what you're saying. That would indeed be a useful feature; I don't believe I've used an editor with such functionality (unless there's a shortcut in vim that does it?).