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BBEdit - 9.0

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All Time:	(4.4)
Version 9.0:	(1.0)
Selected Version:	9.0
Release Date:	2008-08-28
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 9.0):	1,630
Downloads (all versions):	11,091
Price:	$125.00

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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:

Projects A Project is a vastly improved modern expression of BBEdits File Group feature. Project windows include an editing view: Click on a file in the Project list, and it immediately appears in the editing window. Projects may contain documents, folders, and Collections custom groupings of documents that can be anywhere on any local or remote computer.
Completion BBEdit will figure out completions for your code or text as youre editing, either after a delay in typing, or with a keystroke (your choice). Completion can be turned on and off on a per-language basis. They can be derived from a variety of sources, including (but not limited to) Clippings, language-specific completions, and even the system dictionary.
Edit in Results Windows and Disk Browsers The text views in browsing windows (disk browsers, search results, syntax-check results, and similar) are now editable; rather than having to open a file into a new window from such a browser, you can just edit it right there in the windows lower pane.
Integration with MobileMe If you have a MobileMe account, you can keep your BBEdit preferences and your Application Support folder synchronized across machines, preserving your Text Factories, Clippings, and more.
Modeless Find/Replace Windows Multi-file search now has a powerful window of its very own, and both the single- and multi-file search windows are modeless, meaning you can work in and copy from open text documents without having to close the search window. The search windows interfaces have been greatly simplified, without sacrificing any functionality. Also, BBEdit now preserves your search-and-replace history even after you quit, and will remember it at next launch.
Character-level Find Differences Find Differences now uses the system diff tool for generating the difference ranges displayed in the application. The interface has also been improved, allowing you to see more granular differences, not just differences by line. Sub-line differences are visible by twisting the triangle twiddle for each line difference result.
Scratchpad The Scratchpads purpose is to be a space where you can manipulate text by performing quick transforms, manual edits, or batches of copy/paste. It is ideal for quickly beating text from one source into submission before pasting it elsewhere. The Scratchpad window automatically saves its content and state, eliminating those pesky Save Untitled 237? warnings when closing a window or quitting BBEdit.
Save/Copy as Styled Text Save as Styled Text saves your code as an RTF file, with the same indentations and text coloring as you see in your editor window. (The Copy variant copies the styled text to the clipboard.) These features allow you to represent your documents easily in other applications, or even show them to other humans. Or mammals. Or even invertebrates, I guess.
Search Xcode Projects An entry in the Find windows Source List is now populated by Xcodes Recent Projects menu. Selecting one or more Xcode projects will instruct the multi-file search to search each text file in the selected Xcode project(s).
Fix/ToDo Tracking Track your coding tasks easily: Ruby, C, Obj-C, C++, and header files will now show commented FIXME and TODO items in the function popup.
Improved Autosave The application automatically saves its state (open documents and windows) once per minute, so if something bad happens to your machine, theres a pretty good chance that the next time you start up, things will be as they were when the event occurred.
Tab-key functionality The tab key can now be set to perform certain actions (in addition to its existing important-but-mundane function of indentation), including go to next placholder, and indent text blocks.
Preview in MS Windows browsers We now recognize application stubs created by VMWare Fusion 2.0s Unity feature, so that you can preview your HTML documents in Windows versions of Firefox, Opera, Safari, and Internet Explorer in Fusion.
A metric truckload of additional features and improvements.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.5 Intel

Feedback Summary:

Version 9.0:
Overall Rating:	(1.0)	Features:	(3.0)	Support:	(3.0)
Ease of Use:	(2.0)	Quality / Stability:	(2.0)	Price:	(3.0)

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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.