Comments on: BBBetter

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:38:32 +0000

Talk about a late post :)
I still haven’t found the perfect editor. . they’re all close but all missing one absolutely needy feature
apart from the basics, my most necessary features are :
multi-site management (hello skedit)
comment/uncomment shortcut that works properly and without having to select the entire block of commented text (hello topstyle)
syntax highlighting that i like without having to modify (hello dreamweaver)
snippet completion with replacement tokens (topstyle and skedit work good here)
i’m willing to bet skedit will make it in the end, it’s damn close.. and i’ve been a major topstyle user on the pc side of things, so i hope nicks new job at newsgator doesn’t affect topstyle development

By: mr underperson

mr underperson — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:46:56 +0000

I’ve used BBEdit for years too, love it. The first thing I did after installing version 8 was disable the document drawer.
it’s a disaster!

By: clint

clint — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 07:30:29 +0000

I dont know what all the hype about textmate is…I tried it out, and apart from being inexpensive like pagespinner I see no reason to leave bbedit for it…

By: ad

ad — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:50:03 +0000

I'm also a bit late. I've been searching for a decent mac text editor for ages too, and have wasted hours trawling blog entry comments like this for links to The One. I was happy with BBEdit on my Mac until I got used to Scintilla SciTE on my Windows machine (I switch several times a day between my iBook and my windows desktop). Simple, light, speedy, great syntax colouring for all languages I need, total customisability, tabbed documents and... free. I found an experimental Mac port of SciTEthat runs via XWindows (not Aqua) so it is certainly "un-mac-like" and is in fact quite broken when it comes to keyboard mapping (CTL+C etc). If I knew the first thing about porting to Aqua I would make this my side project. But I'm just a lowly PHP programmer looking for an easy time with a text editor. Sure, now there's TextMate. I don't care about the icon - gonna try it out.

By: michel

michel — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 02:18:01 +0000

(A bit late in the discussion, I know.)
Funny that you mention BBEdit’s drawer as the main feature that makes 8.0 worth the upgrade. I for one, may stop using BBEdit just because the of the drawer!
The drawer is kinda broken. Try editing two documents with the same name in different directories, witness how sometimes one is on top of the other and other times it’s below. This is very confusing and has almost managed to make me lose a half day of work this past week! There probably is some logic at work there, but I shouldn’t have to decipher it as a user…

By: Scottie

Scottie — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:29:28 +0000

On the Mac side of things, I generally swear by BBEdit, though SubEthaEdit seems like a decent package as well. On Windows XP, I look no further than the freeware HTML-Kit.

By: The Wolf

The Wolf — Wed, 06 Oct 2004 05:42:10 +0000

Well, now I have even less reason to not use a Mac (besides lack of money)…
If only there where some quality editors like BBEdit for windows.

By: G. I.

G. I. — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 17:43:26 +0000

I use Eclipse with XML/CSS/Javscript plugins to edit XHTML files and style sheets. Yes, it’s true.

By: Jim Moran

Jim Moran — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:04:48 +0000

I’m surprised how many mac authors there are out there. I’ve only seen one or two companies using macs here.
FWIW, I use Homesite, (or Visual Studio on them cursed .NET projects)

By: Peter Usewicz

Peter Usewicz — Sat, 02 Oct 2004 23:07:53 +0000

Yeah it would be nice if i got a Mac :/ www. lop. esol.pl