One bug they forgot to fix... - pmccann

Nope: no one kidding at this end. Earnest: Deadly Earnest. Me likes me text shaken, stirred, then shaken a bit more.

Don't like TextMate? OK: horses for courses and all that...

Which is BBEdit's inferiors do you consider superior to TextMate?

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Tuesday, March 07 2006 @ 06:03 AM PST

One bug they forgot to fix... - Stormchild

Sorry man, can't agree with you there. I've been using BBEdit for at least 8 years, and I'm really familiar and comfortable with it, but TextMate clearly has leapfrogged it in several very significant ways. The "Bundles" in TextMate are extremely powerful and easy to customize, and that feature alone would make such a huge difference in my productivity. The "Glossary" in BBEdit is the closest thing to that feature, but compared to TextMate's bundles, the Glossary is a joke. Which is probably why they ditched (well, renamed) it in BBEdit 8.5 -- an update which also (finally) copies the code folding feature that's been in TextMate all along.

Looking forward to trying out 8.5 (it's downloading now). We'll see if it's worth $30 to upgrade from BBEdit 8.2.6 to 8.5; if this update doesn't bring it very close to the functionality I've been wanting from TextMate, I will most likely drop BBEdit, because TextMate is only €39 for the full version!

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Thursday, September 07 2006 @ 07:32 AM PDT