I'm adapting to the new find, but things like "Search backwards" were initially missed and the search options checkboxes no longer seem to have key-commands (probably because the search box is no longer modal and those key commands need to access the regular application functions.)

For some reason, I no longer have a Tools menu. It doesn't say it was removed. I see that the functions are available via palettes, but I don't use the functions enough to justify leaving palettes open. So if I want to use the "Format" option, I have to open the palette and then select it.

One nice gem tucked into the release notes: code hinting preserved when copying an excerpt from one document to a new document. Hadn't really thought about the issue directly, but as soon as I read it, I knew that this scratched an itch that I had....

Yes, that’s what I’m saying about the contextual menu and Search > Find Definition. The latter does work if nothing is selected, however. So maybe this is a BBEdit bug. Since I hadn’t really used this before, I was assuming that it was working as designed and my expectations were off.

Are you having trouble getting ctags to recognize *any* symbols, or is it just symbols in the Framework files?

I'm not a Cocoa developer, so I've never tried to index the framework files. I'm not even sure I know what, precisely, they are. I'm assuming they're just Objective C source and header files. If so Exuberant ctags **should** be able to index them and create tag files. However, I've only used ctags with python, javascript and PHP source files, so I can't say for certain this is the case.

When you say the "contextual menu works", do you mean you can right click a word/symbol somewhere in your code, and then select definitions from the contextual popup to jump to the file and line where that symbol is defined? And then if you text-select the same symbol and choose Search -> Find Definitions nothing happens?

If that's the case, that's really bizarre and not in-line with my experience. It sounds broken and Bare Bones support might be better able to help.

Random Troubleshooting:

If you invoke Find Definitions without selecting anything a sheet will pop-up and allow you to type in the symbol name you're looking for. If you try this and manually type in your symbol name, does that work any better?

Do you see a reference to the symbol you're looking for in the generated tag files? Determining that would at least narrow down the problem (is a symbol not being found by ctags or is BBEdit having trouble with the symbol)