{"id":35576,"date":"2022-04-14T15:53:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T19:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=35576"},"modified":"2023-05-15T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:21:08","slug":"bbedit-turns-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/14\/bbedit-turns-30\/","title":{"rendered":"BBEdit Turns 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/195001\/It-still-doesnt-suck-BBEdit-turns-30\">wenestvedt<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbedit\/status\/1513874673913716736\">tweet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=31008290\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/195001\/It-still-doesnt-suck-BBEdit-turns-30\">\n<p>First <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/g\/comp.sys.mac.announce\/c\/gvPGyuX3UCs\">announced<\/a> on USENET in 1992, BBEdit has always offered powerful text-editing to Mac users. This week it turns thirty, and is still going strong!<\/p>\n<p>Some of its features remain unmatched, like the great multi-file search. [&#8230;] Syntax high-lighting, autocomplete, and the first regular expression engine I can remember on Macs (except for maybe Torquemada the Inquisitor?), and multi-platform file encoding have been helping Mac programmers and web developers for decades.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been using it since a year or two later, and I doubt there&rsquo;s an app I&rsquo;ve spent more time in. And let&rsquo;s not forget the excellent documentation and customer support that go along with the app.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/16\/bbedit-14-1\/\">BBEdit 14.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/04\/congratulations\/\">Congratulations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/12\/happy-20th-birthday-bbedit\/\">Happy 20th Birthday, BBEdit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"bbedit-turns-30-update-2022-04-15\">Update (2022-04-15): <a href=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2022\/04\/30_years_of_bbedit_not_sucking\">John Gruber<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daringfireball\/status\/1515023150253162497\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2022\/04\/30_years_of_bbedit_not_sucking\">\n<p>Eight years later I was working at Bare Bones Software. My lasting contribution: tweaking the user manual&rsquo;s Grep chapter when BBEdit 6.something adopted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcre.org\/\">PCRE<\/a> regular expression engine; theretofore it had been using a heavily modified version of <a href=\"https:\/\/garyhouston.github.io\/regex\/\">Henry Spencer&rsquo;s original library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>18 years ago I created Markdown in BBEdit, with the intention of using it from BBEdit. That&rsquo;s worked out pretty well&#x2009;&mdash;&#x2009;just about every long piece I&rsquo;ve written for Daring Fireball was written in BBEdit (including this one, natch). At that time, I considered BBEdit mature and well-established.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"bbedit-turns-30-update-2023-05-11\">Update (2023-05-11): Today is the 30th anniversary of BBEdit becoming a commercial product. The company is <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@bbedit\/110350464886512663\">celebrating<\/a> by offering it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barebones.com\/store\/\">on sale<\/a> for $30 (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=35904320\">Hacker News<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p id=\"bbedit-turns-30-update-2023-05-15\">Update (2023-05-15): <a href=\"https:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2023\/5\/bbedit_turns_30.html\">Gus Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/shapeof.com\/archives\/2023\/5\/bbedit_turns_30.html\">\n<p>I still remember discovering BBEdit 2.5 back in my college days, and was instantly hooked. I can even remember the office I was in when I started it up for the first time. BBEdit had this certain &#8230; way and feel about itself, it was 100% at home on the Mac and it was amazing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wenestvedt (tweet, Hacker News): First announced on USENET in 1992, BBEdit has always offered powerful text-editing to Mac users. This week it turns thirty, and is still going strong! Some of its features remain unmatched, like the great multi-file search. 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