Good { morning, afternoon, evening },
We are pleased to announce the release and immediate(*)
availability of BBEdit 10. This major upgrade adds over a
hundred new features, improvements to existing features, and
minor refinements.
Here are the high points, excerpted from the "What's New in
BBEdit 10" page at <http://www.barebones.com/>.
+ New pricing – The suggested retail price of BBEdit 10 is US$49.99.
A special introductory price of US$39.99 for new licenses is
available until October 20, 2011. Complete pricing information,
including upgrade pricing (also US$39.99 for qualifying customers;
free for customers who purchased after January 1, 2011) is available
here: <http://www.barebones.com/company/press/bbedit_pricing.html>.
+ Project and document window changes – Project windows have been
enhanced, to include a list of recently used documents in that
project. The multiple-documents-in-a-window interface has been
updated: files that are open in the window are shown in a sidebar
list, as well as documents that were recently opened into that
window. At your convenience, any window containing multiple
documents may be saved as a project.
+ Preferences and setup improvements – The Preferences
window has
been completely rewritten and reimagined. Many obsolete preferences,
as well as settings never used in daily operation, have
been removed
from the GUI in the interests of reducing complexity. A new Setup
window presents a centralized location for managing configuration
data which is not strictly related to user preferences: FTP/SFTP
bookmarks, Grep patterns, file filters, and web site configurations
for the HTML markup tools.
+ Reinvented and enhanced HTML markup tools – The UI for the HTML
markup tools has been redesigned. When creating or editing an
element or its attributes, the markup tools now offer the
flexibility to use any available attribute, while helping
to create
valid markup by presenting completions for the attributes
that are
valid for that particular element. “Preview in BBEdit”
windows have
been enhanced to support page templating (so that you can preview
partial page content while presenting a standard appearance defined
elsewhere) and switchable style sheets.
+ Dropbox support – If you use Dropbox, you can relocate
your BBEdit
application support data to your active Dropbox folder, and BBEdit
will use them there in preference to the locations in `~/Library/`.
In this way, you can easily share supporting files with multiple
BBEdit installations (handy for multiple machines on your
desk). The
BBEdit application support folder itself has been
reorganized to
make management and backup simpler.
+ Switchable syntax coloring schemes – The “Text Colors” preferences
now add an interface for loading and saving color schemes. The
format for color scheme files is the same one used by
BBColors and
in fact, BBEdit will import any BBColors files that you have
created. You can also specify color schemes on a
per-language basis.
+ Packages – A Package is a collection of the sort of things you’d
place into ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/ to extend BBEdit,
such as clippings, scripts, language modules, and text
filters; but
makes it easier to install such items when they are all
related to a
single type of task, rather than having to manually install and
manage items spread out between different folders.
+ Search, replace, and edit in Zip archives – BBEdit 10 adds
significant capabilities for working with Zip files. (Zip
is a
popular and commonly used compression format, both on Mac
OS X and
on other platforms, as well as being a preferred
distribution format
for EPUB documents.) It is now possible to edit and save documents
opened from within Zip files, not just view them; edits are written
back to the Zip archive. Multi-file search-and-replace, as
well as
text factory application, can now be used to process files
inside of
Zip archives.
You can read more about these, and many other changes in BBEdit
10, in the BBEdit 10 change notes: <http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/arch_bbedit10.html>
(*) BBEdit 10 is not yet available in the Mac App Store, but
will be
soon. When it is, anyone who purchased BBEdit in the Mac
App Store
will receive the update automatically (since by definition they
qualify for the free upgrade).
Note also that availability via "Check for Update" is delayed
slightly as usual; it will be available later today, we expect.
[List mom note: please start new threads for specific questions
rather than replying to this message. Thanks. :-)]
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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