Speaking of ebooks, you'll be amazed to know that BBEdit 10.0 comes complete with a 380-page PDF user manual. This feature will be very useful to those who are working with EPUB files. Saving files recompresses them, as the company wants to make it as easy to work in zip files as any other file type. There were 360149 changes made in a very short amount of time, which really speaks to the speed of BBEdit 10.0. As an example, Siegel did a global find and replace in a compressed 190 MB file. One other feature that was impressive to see in action was read/write support of compressed files. He said that their primary goal with 10.0 was to get all 124 new features out to developers as quickly as possible, and that they'll add more Lion-specific features now that the app is on the market. I asked Siegel about some other Lion features, such as file versioning. If you have to Force Quit the app for some reason or the app crashes, it saves the current state in an auto-recovery file that it will try to open at the next launch. BBEdit 10.0 uses its own Auto-Save capabilities, saving documents, windows positions, and more when quitting. It doesn't require the latest OS, but does require an Intel-based Mac. It's a perfect way to keep projects and settings synced between Macs.Īs expected, BBEdit 10.0 is Lion-ready. The next time BBEdit launches, it recognizes the Dropbox folder and uses it. To do this, a folder titled "Application Support" is added to Dropbox and the BBEdit config files are copied to it. BBEdit 10.0 is using a number of schemes developed by Daring Fireball blogger and Markdown inventor John Gruber.Īs a Dropbox fan, I was really happy to see how Dropbox is now used as a sync point for BBEdit configuration between computers or workgroups. I was pretty impressed with Siegel's demonstration of using color schemes for projects. (Sorry, Brett.)īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. A new HTML Tools palette makes generating error-free HTML a snap, and even partially completed documents can be displayed with "Preview in BBEdit." As much as I love Brett Terpstra's new Marked app for previewing Markdown, BBEdit 10.0 does a great job of supporting Markdown and the results can be previewed right within the app. Projects include a Unix worksheet and scratchpad, which to me (not a developer) seemed like magic, allowing terminal scripts to run within the worksheet. The project and editing windows have a similar layout making access to open and recent documents a click away. I'm not kidding about the weight of those new features - during an hour-long phone call with Bare Bones Software CEO and founder Rich Siegel, we were only able to touch on the top items.įoremost among the improvements is a feature that's invisible, at least until you start really pushing the app hard: the enhanced performance of the new version of BBEdit. BBEdit 10.0 has just been released, with a ton of new features. When developers, writers, web devs, scientists, and system admins need a full-powered Mac HTML and text editor, they often turn to BBEdit from Bare Bones Software.
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