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BBEdit - 8.2.5

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All Time:	(4.4)
Version 8.2.5:	(4.3)
Selected Version:	8.2.5
Release Date:	2006-03-06
License:	Update
Downloads (version 8.2.5):	5,943
Downloads (all versions):	11,086
Price:	$199 new, $99 from TextWrangler, $49/$59 upgrade

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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:

Fixed a bug in the New Document tool which would insert a garbage character after the base element in new documents.
Fixed a bug in which the Tidy commands would generate bad output when running on an Intel machine.
Fixed bug in which BBEdit wouldn't always honor the "ambiguous markup" option to generate XML markup.
Fixed a bug in the HTML Tools where creating a new document from a template in a non-default site which included #! scripts would run those #! scripts with an environment prepared from the default site values rather than current site values.
Fixed a bug in the HTML Markup preferences where if the source format went profile went missing, the "Lower Case" radio button would be unconditionally selected even if the fallback preference was "Upper Case".
Fixed bug in which a multi-file search on a file group would inappropriately skip files whose names were duplicated, but which really existed in multiple places on disk.
More PHP keywords, thanks as always to Carsten Blum
Fixed crash which would occur on Intel machines when trying to change the menu key equivalent of Unix scripts, Unix filters, and other items whose key equivalents are adjusted using the "Set Key" button in a palette.
Change the computation of the page guide location when a proportional font is in use to match the logic used for fixed-width fonts. It's still inappropriate to use the page guide set to a character width when you're using a proportional font, but the result is more likely to at least be visible in the window.
Added the 10.4 temp folder location to the exclusion list for the recent menu.
"Find All" now works for perldoc/pydoc windows. As a bonus, such windows can also be included in multi-file searches.
Fixed a bug that would sometimes leave a "phantom selection" visible when splitting a window.
Fixed bug in which saving a document with DOS line breaks while running on an Intel machine would write out the wrong line ending pattern.
When trying to locate other applications at startup, BBEdit now relies on Mac OS X Launch Services to do the work, and won't check on all mounted volumes. (This fixes the case of external disks sometimes spinning up when starting BBEdit.)
Fixed bug in which keyboard equivalents assigned to packaged plug-ins didn't stick.
Fixed bug in which a gremlin would appear the end of a file when doing a Replace All with Grep and the last match in the file happened to be a zero-length match at the very end of the file.
Fixed bug in which a file opened from an FTP/SFTP server would be saved to the wrong place if it was opened from an FTP/SFTP browser that had subsequently been disconnected and reconnected to another server (and/or account) whose directory structure was identical.
Fixed bug in which unmounting a volume on which the local site root (of a site configured in the HTML Web Sites preferences) resided would cause problems.
Fixed bug in which a -1728 error was reported when trying to print a POD output window.
Fixed bug in which abstract PHP functions didn't show up in the function popup. Now they show up, as function prototypes.
Fixed bug in which the image size sniffer gave the wrong answer when BBEdit was running on an Intel machine.
Fixed bug in which the scroll position of split panes wasn't stored correctly in the saved document state.
The application now guards against Cocoa exceptions being thrown while trying to attach its accessory view to the font panel. (The source of the exceptions remains unknown, but now at least they won't crash the app.)
In the case that saved state is loaded from a document's resource fork (typically files created by old versions of BBEdit), the saved state is now properly swapped when running on an Intel machine.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 8.2.5:
Overall Rating:	(4.3)	Features:	(4.7)	Support:	(4.7)
Ease of Use:	(4.7)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	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.