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Not a lot of BBEdit love going on in the comments, so I'll throw this in... I switched from TextMate to BBEdit when 10.0 came out. Haven't looked back. There wa

Not a lot of BBEdit love going on in the comments, so I'll throw this in... I switched from TextMate to BBEdit when 10.0 came out. Haven't looked back. There was a brief adjustment period, and I had to do some customization to cope with the change (default font is way too small, for instance). But it's been long enough now that I'm pretty sure I could switch to stock BBEdit, and be happy. Rock solid, deep feature set, good support, will never go away... what's not to like? Ok well, there are some things I don't like: 1. needs better syntax highlighting support 2. needs to adapt to languages better (e.g. native syntax check scripts for most languages, autocomplete) 3. search dialog could use an overhaul. 4. default font / color scheme isn't to my liking. What was my point? Oh yeah, I like BBEdit.

andyguzman 14y ago
BBEdit does take some adjustment but I find I'm really happy with it now that I've settled in. I gave ST2 a shot for a few days this week but found myself missing BBEdit - which is a good place to be since it will probably be around for a long while. Are you using ctags? The syntax highlighting was making me a bit nuts as well but using ctags clears much of the frustration: http://bbeditextras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Advanced_ctags_hacking http://bbeditextras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Advanced_ctags_... It still isn't perfect, but much better than the default highlighting. My two must have tweaks aside from ctags are to change how long autocomplete suggest takes (way too long by default): defaults write com.barebones.bbedit Editor_AutoCompleteDelay -float 0.1 And unchecking suggest dictionary words for autocomplete, but adding it as a custom setting for markdown. I found this to be a good, affordable resource for suggestions on how to get the most out of BBEdit: http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/bbedit http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/bbedit Unfortunately we don't seem to have the strong community editors like Textmate do - so this books was a good way to find some neat tricks I hadn't seen elsewhere..

andyguzman 14y ago

BBEdit does take some adjustment but I find I'm really happy with it now that I've settled in. I gave ST2 a shot for a few days this week but found myself missing BBEdit - which is a good place to be since it will probably be around for a long while. Are you using ctags? The syntax highlighting was making me a bit nuts as well but using ctags clears much of the frustration: http://bbeditextras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Advanced_ctags_hacking http://bbeditextras.org/wiki/index.php?title=Advanced_ctags_... It still isn't perfect, but much better than the default highlighting. My two must have tweaks aside from ctags are to change how long autocomplete suggest takes (way too long by default): defaults write com.barebones.bbedit Editor_AutoCompleteDelay -float 0.1 And unchecking suggest dictionary words for autocomplete, but adding it as a custom setting for markdown. I found this to be a good, affordable resource for suggestions on how to get the most out of BBEdit: http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/bbedit http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/bbedit Unfortunately we don't seem to have the strong community editors like Textmate do - so this books was a good way to find some neat tricks I hadn't seen elsewhere..