[HN Gopher] BBEdit is 30 years old today ___________________________________________________________________ BBEdit is 30 years old today Author : sndean Score : 96 points Date : 2022-04-12 21:12 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (groups.google.com) (TXT) w3m dump (groups.google.com) | [deleted] | rmbyrro wrote: | I'm a Linux user. For a second, I thought it was a BBCode editor. | | Congrats to the developer(s). It tells a lot about your | consistency when you're able to maintain something for 30 years. | darkteflon wrote: | Anyone users/fans have any thoughts on BBEdit versus just using | VS Code as your "everything" editor? | chipotle_coyote wrote: | It depends on what you want and like. I like BBEdit more than | Code despite Code arguably being more capable for, er, code, | because -- at least for the way my brain works, apparently -- | BBEdit is better at editing. Most of what I do with it is | technical writing in Markdown. | | Having said that, though, BBEdit 14's LSP integration closes | the gap in coding for me sufficiently, at least for PHP and | Elixir. And there are sort of quirky features like the Unix | Worksheet, "text factories," and BBEdit 14's new notebook | feature that I'm using a lot. | wisemang wrote: | I remember naming a function that sanitized sketchy (in the | charset sense) email content "zap_gremlins" -- this was about a | decade ago, and probably about a decade after the last time I | used BBEdit. I'm a Sublime guy now but fond memories. | chmaynard wrote: | Sez who? I see nothing on the BBEdit product page about an | anniversary. | humps wrote: | first release was April 12, 1992, but it was a proof of | concept[1] and wasn't commercialized until May 1993, so perhaps | that's why? | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBEdit | [deleted] | mistrial9 wrote: | (those are the authors posting) | abzug wrote: | https://twitter.com/bbedit/status/1513874673913716736 | bachmeier wrote: | But then this should be the link, rather than an unrelated | page. | mttjj wrote: | Original release announcement: | https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.mac.announce/c/gvPGyuX3... | dang wrote: | Nice--we've changed to that from | http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html above. | Thanks! | smm11 wrote: | I recall using this 30 years ago on System 7. Can I retire yet? | vr46 wrote: | I still have a licence, still in my Dock, still use it for (a) | Massive Files (b) Regex work. | | But not actually writing code anymore. I guess I must have | started with BBEdit Lite in 1994. Would love to go back to 1994. | throwthere wrote: | Any idea how it compares to vim or Macvim for your uses? | cpill wrote: | nah, the music was terrible back then | ChrisMarshallNY wrote: | I've been using it, almost its entire life. | | Awesome app. One of my "must-have" apps. | | I use Xcode for most of my day-to-day iOS/MacOS stuff, but | BBEdit, for all my server work. | devy wrote: | BBEdit is my Mac version of the "Notepad.ext". Been a user for | over a decade by now and still love it, albeit after macOS | Monterey upgrade it has become significantly slower in app | loading time (from a fraction of second to 1-2 seconds sometimes, | irregardless of the size of the files that were previous opened | of the number of files previously opened, less than 10 usually | for me) | jzer0cool wrote: | I have my first copy of BBEdit from late 90's. Bundled on a | shareware cd. | angryasian wrote: | When they wanted me to move from TextWrangler to BBedit I was | against it. Now I'm a BBEdit fan. Hopefully we see it in another | 30 more years | tkgally wrote: | I'm not a programmer, but I switched to hand-coding my personal | website a few years ago and started using BBEdit more and more. | The text filters, multifile search-and-replace, and clearly | written manual have been especially helpful. The program is a | pleasure to use. | LeoPanthera wrote: | So I guess I used BBEdit for 28 years. I started on System 7? I | think. And I finally stopped last year when I switched to | CotEditor, wanting something more macOS native. | | It's still installed, though. I was mildly annoyed that I paid | for a version 14 license and then about 6 months later version 15 | came out and my license didn't work in it. | | It's probably still worth the money, but I'm enjoying CotEditor | for my basic text editing needs. | | Edit: My version numbers may be confused. Whatever they are, my | license only worked for less than a year. I did ask support if I | qualified for the next version, and they said no. | chipotle_coyote wrote: | > I was mildly annoyed that I paid for a version 14 license and | then about 6 months later version 15 came out | | The current version of BBEdit is 14.1. Maybe you're getting the | version numbers confused here. (BBEdit 14 came out in mid-July | of 2021, and while a version 13 license would indeed not work | in it because new versions require new licenses, the web site | clearly states you can upgrade from BBEdit 13 for free if you | bought it on or after January 1, 2021. IIRC, Bare Bones has | always been fairly generous in this kind of upgrade policy.) | | > And I finally stopped last year when I switched to CotEditor, | wanting something more macOS native. | | BBEdit has always been a native Mac program, so I'm not sure | what it is you're trying to get at here? | LeoPanthera wrote: | Mostly that CotEditor supports Versions, and BBEdit doesn't. | I don't need to remember to save. | nigerian1981 wrote: | Any thoughts on using CotEditor vs Sublime as a Dev needing to | open json,sql,log files etc? | LeoPanthera wrote: | My needs are very basic, so I didn't give Sublime much of a | look. I specifically wanted something macOS native, and | CotEditor was one of the few, possibly the only, that | supports Versions. It does everything I need it to. | nigerian1981 wrote: | I'm going to give it a try tomorrow | michaelsbradley wrote: | I've had a BBEdit license since ca. 2000. And I've always been | happy to pay for license upgrades as new major versions are | published, even though for programming I've primarily used Emacs | since 2012. | | It's still a wonderful tool for working with and transforming | plain text. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-12 23:00 UTC)