BBEdit is designed and crafted for the editing, searching, transformation, and manipulation of text and HTML documents.
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.
Here are some key features of "BBEdit":
· Complete set of HTML Tools - for fast, easy, and correct markup. Supports current standards including HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and 1.1, and WML 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3
· Innovative "Text Factory" feature for automating the application of multiple text transformations across multiple files or folders, without scripting or programming
· Syntax coloring and function navigation for nearly two dozen languages, plus an extensible architecture for adding your own
· Flexible `grep` style pattern-based search and replace based on PCRE
· Advanced file filtering for multi-file search and replace including filtering based on file contents
· Documents Drawer and Navigation Bar to open multiple documents into a single window, and then switch between them quickly and easily
· Powerful Glossary - store and insert frequently-used text items
· Advanced Unix scripting on Mac OS X with built-in Perl, Python, and shell scripting support
· Enhanced Unicode support - work easily with documents written in multiple languages and text encodings
· Authenticated saves
· Built-in text transformations for text formatting and cleanup
· Integrated access to Perforce, Subversion, and CVS
· Transparently handles DOS/Windows, Unix, and Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) text files
· "bbedit" command-line tool
· Unique "Shell Worksheets" provide Mac OS X Unix power with Macintosh style
· Advanced AppleScript, Perl, and Mac OS X Unix scripting support
· Built-in FTP and SFTP support to manage files on remote servers
· File Groups to work with related files in a project
· Integrated spelling checker
· Integration with Macromedia Dreamweaver
· Automator support
Requirements:
· Automator
Limitations:
· 30 days trial
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Additions:
· This release consists entirely of fixes for reported issues, and contains no new features, nor changes to existing features.
Fixes:
· Fixed a fistful of bugs which contributed to unnecessarily high memory utilization.
· Fixed crash which would occur when files were deleted outright from folders being watched by a project file list.
· When importing service data, line breaks are now converted to the internal representation.
· BBEdit now advertises its ability to supply and accept service data as UTF-8 (as well as UTF-16 and plain Mac Roman text).
· Fixed bug in which using the "Plain" format would remove the first character of the markup being formatted, in cases in which the markup was a document fragment and the first character was an element opener ("
