[Pythonmac-SIG] BBEdit 9

Russell E. Owen rowen at u.washington.edu
Fri Sep 12 00:11:57 CEST 2008


BBEdit 9.0 is out and it is a significant update. At risk of sounding 
like an advertisement, changes that I particularly appreciate are:
- The Find/Replace is finally modal (though there is a preference to 
make it modal if you prefer). It has a cleaner design and the checkboxes 
all work independently now, which makes "find in selection" usable. The 
old Find/Replace dialog was a show-stopper for me; it is the reason I 
avoided BBEdit for years.

- An excellent implementation of Project Files. If you add a directory 
to a Project then it is a live view of the disk, which is just what I 
want (especially when working with svn repositories and such). You can 
add individual files and other things as well, but I've not done any of 
that yet.

- The various views of a file can all edited (and of course they stay 
synchronized). Formerly views such as Find All window were read-only.

Of course there are many other fine Mac editors and everybody's taste is 
different. But if you are looking for an editor then BBEdit 9 is 
definitely worth a look.

-- Russell



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