On 29 Sep 2006, at 12:48 , Tim Gray wrote:
Now, I've been using BBEdit for a quite a while (version 4 maybe?) and have done several web sites with it (but not professionally). Only in the last 2 years did I discover the Tag Maker (and Edit Tag). HOLY CRAP!
Heh, that's funny. That was exactly my reaction to it too.
Don't know where I'm going with this, but this is something that should really be highlighted as a very useful feature. I see there's now a tutorial in 8.5 - maybe it was there all along, but that seems like a good move to me. I should go through it and start recommending it to people when I recommend BBEdit to them.
Yeah, the trouble with new features is that they are sometimes hard to get into people's heads. I mean, what do you do, make a big announcement and show off your new flashy looking Album view... well, ok, that works if it's something flashy and visual. But BBEdit is a text editor, and at its core, it's boring. That's not insulting at all, it SHOULD be boring. It NEEDS to be boring. That's it's job, stay out of the way and lemme work.
And then the other thing is that people who have been using BBEdit a long time will probably continue using the feature set they started using and very rarely will they integrate a new feature into their workflow. It takes a lot to shift muscle-memory.
I mean, how would you suggest Barebones tout new features? Announcing them and documenting them and saying "you want <feature>" when someone asks a question is what they've done to date, and it's what I expect. But what could be done better to promote new features? Or old features that we suspect are under-utilized?
My other (quasi) point. I like what you've done with the clippings menu. Again, all the functionality was mostly there with glossaries, but it was just out of the way a bit and a pain in the butt to add new entries. The "Create clipping with selection" command is very useful.
Glossaries are better in 8.5 with the rename and promotion to a menu. I expect a lot more people will use them now.
I'll have to try Textmate again just to see what it is that I'm "missing." BBEdit 8.5 really is fabulous - thanks for a great update with a lot of really useful features.
Yeah, I am loving 8.5. We'll see how October goes though, I have a lot more editing work to do in October, so I'll be putting it through its paces. Utilizing, oh, I dunno, at least 5% of the feature set. Maybe 6!
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