My Favorite Editor!
Written: Jun 01 '00
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Pros: advanced text editing; stable; professional quality
Cons: apple-shift-S doesn't "Save As"
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| box543's Full Review: Bare Bones Software BBEDit (Mac) |
When I'm on my Mac, this is what I use for almost all of my text needs. As long as I don't need "pretty" formatting (ie resumes), I use my BBEdit.
BBEdit has "smart HTML" - your tags are colored when you save you doc as HTML. It also has an HTML tools window with buttons for commonly used tags. It comes with a tables utility that I never use because I find it annoyingly limited for what I want it to do. It has a websafe color palette built in as well as a spell checker, syntax checker, and FTP client.
It has all of the basics you would expect from an advanced editor: line number marking, text wrap, syntax checker and find and replace. the Find and Replace window is too wonderful. Talk about a wide variety of options (including the always welcome "find and replace in all: open documents"). It also let you "grep" although I've never needed to try that option.
One nice thing about BBEdit is its ability to open any file, regardless of size. I've used it to open unbelievably long text documents, horribly bloated Word Documents - and I've even used it to open and fix corrupted image files!
It has a variety of save options - along as you're not looking for formatting capabities, you'll find the one you need.
My one minor gripe is that apple-shift-S tried to save via FTP to a sever instead of prompting for "Save As" like most applications do.
If you buy the Mac version of Dreamweaver, BBEdit comes with it as the default text editor (oh, and the stand-alone version of BBEdit is completely compatible with a variety of WYSIWYG editors including DW, Homesite and something else I'm forgetting...). And can I just say here that I wish it came with the Windows version of DW (which I have to use at the office)? Too bad it's not ported to Windows.... :P
I really can't say enough good things about this program though. The price is on the higher-end (between $100 and $200), but it's completely worth it IMO.
Known incompatibilities (not that there are many) are posted on Bare Bones website. I, however, have never had any problems that weren't related to the fact that I had WAAAY too many apps open and no memory left...
Recommended:
Yes
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