Hi all,
Continuing a practice started during BBEdit 8.5 maintenance, we're
making available a pre-release build of a maintenance update to
BBEdit 8.6.
Like the 8.6 update before it, 8.6.1 will be a free update to
customers using BBEdit 8.5 or later. (Please note that BBEdit 8.6
requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later; if you are using 10.3.9 or earlier,
you will need to stick with BBEdit 8.5.2.)
Here's important information, carried over for the benefit of those who
haven't seen the beta announcements from previous updates:
Note that these are _pre-release_ versions. The intent is to fix
bugs and address areas of improvement based on what our customers
have reported. However, since the software is at this point not
fully tested, there _may_ be bugs and regressions. If this prospect
makes you nervous, then sticking with the public release versions is
your best course of action. Nobody will be offended if you choose to
do so; you're under no obligation to install and use anything but a
public release. :-)
Following is a summary of the changes in the software since the last
public release. The change notes are organized into additions,
changes, and fixes, and are annotated where appropriate with case
numbers. So if you recognize a number corresponding to a support
case that was opened for you, you can now verify that it's been
fixed correctly.
One final note: If you run into a bug in a pre-release version,
PLEASE DO NOT REPORT THE BUG TO THE LIST. This includes asking about
whether others have seen the same problem. Instead, please send a
bug report to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and we will deal with it
there. This will help us keep the list discussion on topic and
productive for all list members.
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version 8.6.1b1 (177) (1/19/2007)
* BBEdit 8.6 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. If you're still using
10.3.9, BBEdit 8.5.2 is the most recent version you will be able to
run on your machine.
Additions
---------
+ You can reverse which side of the window the documents drawer
will open on for a single window by holding the command key down
while clicking on the documents drawer icon in the toolbar.
(This is a temporary change for that specific window - it
doesn't affect the application preference.) [65425]
Changes
-------
∆ The About box now indicates a site license or KeyServer managed
license as such (rather than displaying nothing where the serial
number should be).
∆ Changed the rules slightly for "Apply Text Factory" so that if
there's a single-line selection that ends in a carriage return,
the selection is processed instead of the entire document.
Fixes
-----
- Fixed a bug where after a certain sequence of steps, the insert
clipping panel could come up blank. [71579]
- Fixed a bug in the Format tool where
- In selection only mode, the wrong range of text was replaced.
- In full document mode, the selection range wasn't recomputed
correctly.
[70637]
- Fixed the cause of 13601 errors when backup before saving
is configured to use the parent directory.
[72489, 72397, 72438, others]
- Fixed bug in which JSP files would cause the HTML scanner to
hang. [72412]
- Fixed a fat finger-O which caused results browsers to be
omitted from the search sources drawer. [72592]
- Fixed a regression in Open Selection where ./file,
../file, and folder/file relative paths were not properly
resolved. [72730]
- Fixed hang with empty package declaration (easily triggered by
typing 'package' in a new java file). [72651]
- Skip guessing when saving empty files, if the language module's
"Always Guess" flag is set and there's a already a successful
suffix-to-language match. [72780]
- Antialiased the diamonds used in the status bar to indicate content
and state dirtiness. [71820]
- TeX: starred commands* now fold correctly. So a
\begin*{something} will correctly fold to the matching
\end{something}. [72792]
- TeX: The tokens for generic commands (those which don't
delimit fold ranges or math sections) were always one character
short, which messed up syntax coloring in some cases. [72736]
- JavaScript: Fixed crash which would sometimes occur when trying
to find the full name of an "assigned" function or object, and
the name was the first text in the file. [72704]
- Major performance boost for TeX syntax coloring. [72732]
- the BBLMLanguageCode key in language modules is supposed to be
four characters long, and BBEdit 8.5 enforced this (with the
result that some third-party codeless language modules no longer
loaded). The enforcement came at the cost of backward
compatibility, though, so the old behavior of padding shorter
language codes with spaces has been restored.
=end=
The package can be downloaded from one of our public download servers:
<http://ftp.barebones.com/pub/seeding/bbedit_861b1_177.dmg>
Enjoy,
R.
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Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.barebones.com/>
Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me.
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