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BBEdit - 7.1.3

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All Time:	(4.4)
Version 7.1.3:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	7.1.3
Release Date:	2004-03-29
License:	Shareware
Downloads (version 7.1.3):	5,316
Downloads (all versions):	11,028
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:

The name of the "Resolve URL" command (on the Edit menu) is now "Open URL".
The "Auto-Connect" setting in the FTP dialogs no longer requires that "Remember Password" be turned on. This is useful if you have previously set up to use public-key authentication for SSH (in which case no password is required).
Corrected a bug where onload and onunload were missing from the XHTML 1.1 language table specification for the body element.
Fixed a bug where the Anchor dialog would crash on Mac OS 9 if the selection contained whitespace.
Fixed a bug in the new auto-indent whitespace behavior where the undo stack was incorrect if the document was represented internally as unicode.
Corrected a mistake in the Perl syntax coloring scanner that would cause it to almost always break runs at the end of a line. A side-effect of correcting this is that the '/' operator is no longer treated differently if it appears on the second or subsequent line of an expression, i.e., it will not mistakenly be treated as a string delimiter if it would not have been had the entire expression been on a single line (pardon the legalese :-).
Fixed ancient bug in which the meanings of the "List Text Files Only" and "Skip (...) Folders" switches were reversed in the Find Differences dialog.
Fixed bug in which the resource fork of a shell worksheet document was left open, which would lead to -192 errors when subsequently saving other documents.
Fixed bug in which an error would occur when trying to save a file opened using SFTP on an alternate port.
Fixed bug in which the FTP dialog would include the port number in the host name when selecting an SFTP host via Rendezvous. It now only does so when the port is not the default SFTP port.
Rendezvous initialization for FTP server browsing is now deferred until the first time the FTP dialogs are used.
Fixed a bug where pasting into the Anchor (and friends) dialog URL field would result in the field contents being selected after the paste.
Fixed bug in which renaming a file in the Open from FTP/SFTP dialog when connected to an SFTP server would end up moving the renamed file to the logged-in user's home directory.
When checking to see whether an FTP/SFTP file is already open, BBEdit now includes the user name in the test, so that files which have the same host and path, but different user login, are handled correctly.
Fixed a bug where Open by Name would open ~/... as /...
If CodeWarrior is busy when BBEdit tries to update its state, BBEdit will now wait three seconds to retry (rather than the previous ten seconds). This improves the responsiveness of the UI a bit.
Updated the PHP keyword list
Fixed bug in which the visible "SFTP" indicator in FTP browsers didn't change when choosing a bookmark caused the SFTP setting to change.
Fixed a memory leak in the Apple Event guts.
Fixed bug in which path information wasn't saved when using "Add Bookmark..." from the FTP dialog or FTP browser, and the dialog/browser was not currently connected to a server.
Fixed a bug where if you included a non-MacRoman document in a MacRoman document, the data was inserted incorrectly.
Some SFTP servers seem to get upset if you ask them how big a file is immediately before opening it for download. So we don't do that anymore. This resolves SFTP timeouts when opening files via SFTP from the Open Recent menu.
Fixed a bug where the shell path would sometimes get garbled when re-opening a saved shell worksheet.
Fixed bug in which BBEdit would crash if the saved split position for a disk browser got hammered.
Fixed a bug where scripted results of process lines containing were incorrect if the input data was unicode. (A non-unicode string was returned in which every other byte was a NULL.)
The spelling checker now adjusts its start and end points as necessary to avoid checking partial words if the selection range starts and/or ends in the middle of a word.
Fixed bug in which making a new directory on an SFTP server would report an error or otherwise behave strangely.
Tweaked the error message text for SSH_FX_FAILURE.
BBEdit will now alert you if a language module cannot be used because it's not Unicode-savvy.
The world is once again safe for democracy: the titles have been restored to the FTP/SFTP open and save dialogs.
Fixed bug in the file filter UI in which pasting into a string term didn't mark the filter as changed.
Clarified scripting dictionary description of the "encoding" property of the "text document" class.
Fixed bug in which menu scripts attached to the "Markup -> Preview" command stopped working (because the title of that menu command became dynamic).
BBEdit now puts the same information in a drag from the Windows palette as it does in a drag of the window's title bar icon. This means that if you drag the an FTP/SFTP document's window from the window palette, you'll now get a URL instead of a reference to the temporary file.
Educate Quotes now correctly handles the case of a quote immediately following a right-angle bracket, as in:
The yen key on JIS keyboards now behaves much better. Typing yen still yields a yen character (which still appears as a box in Osaka-mono, but the correct Unicode char is being used here - 0xA5) and to get a backslash you need only type option-yen (which appears as yen in Osaka-mono, but the correct Unicode char is being used here as well - 0x5C, ASCII backslash). This applies, to my knowledge, to Mac OS 9.2.2 with the Japanese Language Kit using the US Keyboard layout, as well as Mac OS X 10.3.2 with US and Japanese Romaji (half-width Roman) Keyboard layouts. The Katakana and Hiragana layouts take both yen and option-yen to be a full-width yen character (not much I can do about that).

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS 9.2.2 - OS X 10.2 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 7.1.3:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(4.3)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(4.0)

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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.