Comments on: BBEdit 8

By: Michael Tsai - Blog - BBEdit 9

Michael Tsai - Blog - BBEdit 9 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:46:18 +0000

[...] 9 doesn’t seem like as big an upgrade as 8.0 and 8.5 were, but it’s nonetheless a good [...]

By: Singh

Singh — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:37:17 +0000

Unsure about 8.0 specifically, but this works in at least 8.2.6+:
BBEdit Preferences -> Documents Drawer -> Allow Documents Drawer to Acquire Keyboard Focus

Now use alt/option + tab. (Yes, I realize this article is nearly 4 years old, but people today are still looking for this solution.

By: Jorge Laranjo

Jorge Laranjo — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:26:38 +0000

Where can i find a Smarty module (for highlighting syntax) for Bbedit 8.0 ?

Please email me to jorge.laranjo@gmail.com
Thanks.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 17:11:03 +0000

Simon Beavis has posted BBCLMEditor 0.1, an editor for Codeless Language Modules, so that you don't have to edit the plist files by hand. I should note that although BBEdit does lose track of file encodings, as described in the original posting, you can permanently tag a file with its encoding using an Emacs file variable. For example, to mark that a file is UTF-8, put this text somewhere in the first line of the file (probably inside a comment):

-*- coding: utf-8 -*-

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:37:37 +0000

Alex Robinson has written BBWorkspace, which has a nicer interface than Johan Solve's script but doesn't support multiple documents in the same window. John Gruber reviews BBEdit 8.

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 06:49:49 +0000

Looks like a good solid upgrade. God knows what they were thinking with the new icon though. With two B's in their name, you'd think they'd want a nice looking B, but that icon has got to be about the ugliest thing I have ever seen. Pains me to look at :-)

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:45:57 +0000

Johan Solve has written the script I suggested above, which saves and restores the open documents and their groupings.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:35:18 +0000

Sean: John Gruber posted a Perl script (may need to reopen the HTML file as Mac OS Roman) to the BBEdit-Talk mailing list that re-implements Convert To ASCII.

By: Sean McKibben

Sean McKibben — Thu, 09 Sep 2004 04:08:31 +0000

I can't believe they took out the Convert to ASCII command. Why would they do that?

Does anyone have any suggestions for another program to do this? Straightening quotes is great and all, but what about converting • to * or é to e?? Am I supposed to look for all those things by hand?

By: JerryT

JerryT — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 08:20:45 +0000

Upgrading to textSOAP 4 from 3 is easy for BBEdit 8 and Mailsmith 2.1. The application "knows" where Plug Ins now live (very slick update from textSOAP 3 to 4 via eSellerate; I notice BareBones has switched from eSellerate to Digital River; cost of textSOAP upgrade was $12.50 or $15.00, forget which).

It also looks like textSOAP 4 has dropped support for Entourage X and added support for Mailsmith 2.1 with version 4.

DragThing 5.3 and NetNewsWire 1.0.8 both continue to have compatibility with BBEdit 8. The migration of Preferences and other resources to Applications Support for many of these apps is worth noting if you back up selected items with Backup to an iDisk as I do. In addition to all these recent updates I downgraded to Retrospect 5.1 from 6. 6 seems not only slower but is *really* slow when doing a "Recycle Backup" in my experience. I've also had the first Beach Balls I've ever seen with Retrospect when using 6.

Then there were the Apple updates to Airport/Airport Extreme and Airport Express....Labor Day Weekend arrived at the right time for me....

PS Many thanks again to the author of SpamSieve for his Labor Day weekend tech support for BBedit 8 and Mailsmith 2.1 as well as SpamSieve 2.2. :)