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BBEdit - 6.5.3

Program code and HTML easily with this powerful text editor that now works with OS X.

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All Time:	(4.4)
Version 6.5.3:	(4.9)
Selected Version:	6.5.3
Release Date:	2002-09-05
License:	Shareware
Downloads (version 6.5.3):	12,374
Downloads (all versions):	11,037
Price:	$99.95

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Product Description:

BBEdit is a high-performance HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. It is designed and crafted for the editing, searching, transformation, and manipulation of text. BBEdit provides an array of general-purpose features which are useful for a wide variety of tasks, and includes many features which have been specifically developed in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers.

What's new in this version:

BBEdit 6.5.3 is a maintenance update only, and does not contain any feature additions. Scripting accesses to objects of the class "file" by name now work correctly in situations where they didn't before.
You can now get or set the properties of multiple "window" or "document" objects via the scripting interface, e.g. set bounds of every window to { 100, 100, 500, 500 } or get name of every document
Worked around Mac OS X bug which prevented AppleScript "whose" clauses from working in some situations, e.g. scripts such as every window whose name contains "mumble" should work now.
AppleScript "whose" clauses which test a Boolean property now work correctly on Mac OS X in situations where they didn't before.
When opening files, the "open" event handler will now return an object specifier for the window created as a result of the open (if any).
When running on Mac OS X, the CodeWarrior IDE would stall because BBEdit was rapid-firing events at it. This in turn would cause the event to be stalled indefinitely, which caused BBEdit to hang. All of these conditions are now fixed.
On Mac OS X 10.2, "open" events sent via the scripting interface would cause a hang. This is fixed, but as a result of this change you will need version 1.0.4 or later of the 'bbedit' command-line tool (installed by the BBEdit 6.5.3 updater) in order for "bbedit -w" to work correctly.
Fixed bug which would cause a hang when saving on Mac OS X, in situations when the document was opened by a process with a missing serial number.
Application packages can now be dragged on to the Find dialog in order to search inside them.
Line numbers are now handled correctly when printing with the "Use 'Hard' Line Numbering in Soft-Wrapped Views" preference turned on.
When performing an authenticated save, the document's saved state is set to "None" (because the resulting document has no resource fork).
After manually switching the language mapping for a document, the function popup is now cleared.
When the file list view in a browser window (such as a disk browser) has focus, the "selection" property will return the selected file.
Fixed an infinite loop of alerts which would occur when a permissions error occurred while refreshing the file list in a disk browser.
If a document is reloaded as the result of a "verify" operation (as when bringing BBEdit to the foreground), its Undo stack is reset.
Worked around Mac OS X 10.2 bug which caused display artifacts when flashing a selected URL after Command-clicking to resolve it.
Worked around Mac OS X 10.2 bug which caused a -1701 when creating a new file filter.
Fixed bug in which FTP bookmark passwords would be lost when editing a bookmark and saving passwords in the Keychain.
Fixed bug in some of the function scanners in which the scanner could run off the end of the text and crash on Mac OS X.
Fixed bug in the PHP function scanner which would cause a hang when the document consisted of (or ended with) a forward slash ("/").
The PHP function scanner now correctly lists functions that return references.
In Mac OS X 10.2, Cocoa applications include a Unicode byte-order mark in the 'utxt' scrap flavor (which is arguably correct, but still different from previous versions of the OS and breaks third-party applications). BBEdit now handles this condition, so there will be no more junk character at the beginning of text pasted from such applications.
Fixed crash which would occur if an error dialog was put up very early in the application startup process.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

PPC
Mac OS 8.6 or higher with CarbonLib
or
Mac OS X 10.0 or higher

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Still the best... - Version: 9.2, 5/8/2009 07:37AM PST

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arcturus1

Not sure what ftp issues were present in earlier versions, but I have no problems with working with BBEdit's ftp functions, although I typically use Interarchy for ftp.

When I need to get something done, and done quickly, BBEdit always comes through. I've tried out others, but BBEdit is the strongest and most comprehensive tool I've found.

FTP really sucks! - Version: 9.1, 1/12/2009 04:17AM PST

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giorgiosca1

OK, this is my first NEGATIVE report on BBEdit.
The FTP client is really really buggy!

If you work with a document opened via FTP, every time you save your work BBEdit open a new connection, not closing the ones already it opened.
So it happens that my server, which supports max 50 connections, after a few minutes of work stop accepting my savings.

And there's more and more.

Now reverting to 9.02, which I did not removed from my backups!

ftp more broken than before - Version: 9.1, 1/11/2009 05:24AM PST

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afterhours

Wow -- this is my first negative experience with a BBEdit update in a very long time. They've completely watered down -- oh, make that 'Mac-like' -- the ftp preferences. No longer can I choose what kind of protocol. BBEdit conveniently chooses for me regardless.

And in doing so, they've crippled BBEdit. I can no longer log into webstar servers or other older ftp servers directly. BBEdit appears to log in successfully, but sends erroneous commands and cannot list files or directories.

Support requests to Barebones have gone without reply to date. I'll go back to 9.0.2 to be able to get my work done.

sad.