![]() Supports macOS Dark Mode, with automatic text color scheme switching Show and hide individual menu items or entire menus ![]() “Repeat Last Command” to quickly re-select most menu commands, making it easy to repeat text transforms and other operations without a trip to the menu bar. “Commands” command presents a quick search of menu commands, scripts, clippings, and more for rapid access to anything you can do from a BBEdit menu. Use Dropbox or iCloud Drive to share plug-ins, scripts, and setup data between multiple computers See below for a list of the differences between TextWrangler and BBEdit (after the 30-day evaluation period has expired).Ĭompatible with modern macOS versions ( see details) You can find an overview in the BBEdit Feature Tour. ![]() This chart is not an exhaustive listing of BBEdit’s features. You can’t use the advanced functionality in Free mode, but everything else will continue working as always.This chart shows what you get when you buy a BBEdit license, compared to the features available when you use BBEdit without a license after the 30-day evaluation period.Īll of the highlighted features are available during the initial 30-day evaluation period. After that, BBEdit goes into “Free mode”. You can use it for free for 30 days and try out all the features. Yes, I write my articles in the Ulysses markdown editor, but for anything else I will open BBEdit.īBEdit 13 retails for $49.99. The rectangular selections are made in the actual text, not in the visual representation, so if the rectangular selection crosses a wrapped line, the wrapped portion of the line will not be highlighted, which could cause confusion, but not if you keep this in mind!Ĭonclusion: BBEdit is a tool, not just for coders or people working with simple HTML and CSS, but also for simple wordsmiths like myself. As soon as it stopped being valid, the highlighting disappeared - but that’s useful in its own right, because it alerts you to errors you’ve made instantly.Īs always, BBEdit upgrades have plenty of new and improved features and to list them all would take another five pages or so, but there’s one I don’t want to skip because it’s too useful to let pass under your radar: the ability to now make rectangular selections in documents for which “Soft Wrap Text” is turned on and act upon them - copy, cut, etc. Of course, it will only work when the pattern is valid. With most editors, this will work only with literal text, but BBEdit 13 makes this work with Grep patterns too. That’s the feature whereby editing a search string will highlight the results in the “target” document window. It reduced the time I needed to spend on Grep with my pattern-averse brain to a fraction of what I needed to spend without it - even the Cheat Sheet can’t compete with this.īut there’s a third method as well, although this one is for people who have a better understanding of Grep already. It makes creating complicated patterns much less a trial-and-error affair, because you can see exactly what will match and how that works. That one lets you interactively experiment with the behaviour of Grep patterns. The second way is the so-called “Pattern Playground” window. That’s a first method BBEdit 13 uses to make Grep pattern creation better - as in more accurate and faster. In the Find and Multi-File Search windows, choosing an item from the cheat sheet also turns on the “Grep” option. The menu provides some common Grep pattern idioms and brief descriptions and the best part is that it allows you to choose one that will then literally be inserted into the pattern you already figured out and select it. It also works within the “Process Lines Containing”, “Process Duplicates”, and “Sort Lines” dialogue boxes. This mnemonic apparatus appears as a popup menu button in the Find, Multi-File Search, and Pattern Playground windows. Setting up a Grep pattern took a lot of time and sometimes I just couldn’t make one work at all.Įnter BBEdit 13’s Grep Cheat Sheet. In the past, though, I had to re-adjust myself to using Grep which is a patterns lookup language that I am sure is logical from a coder’s perspective but not mine and a lot of people like me. In other words, I search for patterns and BBEdit has always been a great help with that. I’m not a coder, not even with CSS or HTML anymore, but I do regularly search for words and sentences even that you can’t find by simply looking for the actual characters. Besides having become better at following Apple’s luminance schemes, the venerable text editor now offers a vastly simpler way to create Grep patterns, a Grep cheat sheet and the ability to create rectangular selections in documents with Soft Wrap Text set to active. In human years, BBEdit turns well over 30 and with that age comes wisdom.
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