{"id":239,"date":"2003-02-27T21:37:20","date_gmt":"2003-02-28T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=239"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"bbedit_elements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/27\/bbedit_elements\/","title":{"rendered":"BBEdit Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\nI like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/textwrangler\/\">TextWrangler<\/a>. It&rsquo;s much <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2003\/02\/wrangly.html\">more capable<\/a> than BBEdit Lite, so it&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mostrom.pp.se\/folk\/jem\/reviews\/textwrangler.html\">plenty of text editor<\/a> for a lot of people. BBEdit Lite was too good to give away. $50 for TextWrangler seems fair all around, although I think Bare Bones should have included AppleScript support instead of C programming features. My guess is that programmers will want the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barebones.com\/products\/textwrangler\/versus.shtml\">extra features<\/a> that are available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/8.12\/bbedit.shtml\">BBEdit<\/a>, anyway.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThere&rsquo;s been some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macslash.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/02\/25\/1626240&amp;mode=thread\">grousing<\/a> on the message boards to the effect that free tools duplicate many of TextWrangler&rsquo;s features. These people might also enjoy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\">free tool<\/a> that duplicates many of Photoshop&rsquo;s features.\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like TextWrangler. It&rsquo;s much more capable than BBEdit Lite, so it&rsquo;s plenty of text editor for a lot of people. BBEdit Lite was too good to give away. $50 for TextWrangler seems fair all around, although I think Bare Bones should have included AppleScript support instead of C programming features. My guess is that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}