I'm not overly happy with the lack of long-standing features in v10 either. I realize is a Cocoa build though, so it does take a lot more effort to recode everything. What I wonder is why it was released so crippled. I'd have rather of waited another year for v10 and not be missing anything. I guess the Cocoa build has to start somewhere. As it is, I'll probably be using v9.6 for at least another 6 months while the BB folks add features back to v10.
BBEdit has always been one of those apps I download/purchase as soon as there is an update because each version is an improvement. Sad to say v10 was the huge step backwards due to missing features. I can't see how BBEdit 10 will gain many NEW users. If I saw only version 10... I'd have never purchased it. There are free apps that do a better job with PHP/HTML/CSS/Javascript than v10 does at the moment. And, of course, it may depend on end user use as well. v10 may be a heck-of-an-app for *nix or Ruby files. I wouldn't know. On Jul 22, 1:19 pm, Jay <[email protected]> wrote: > I've tried off and on to get up to speed with version 10, and I'm just > not getting it. I've used BBEdit for years and usually eagerly buy up > the latest version as soon as it ships, but so far, I can't justify > the purchase. > > I primarily do HTML, PHP, and JS development with BBEdit and it seems, > unless I'm missing something, that version 10 is far more cumbersome > to use than version 9 for a lot of my tasks. The prime example being > the HTML editing tools. > > For most tags in 9, the modal dialog boxes provided the majority of > the necessary options (the prime example being the image box). It also > did the niceties of auto-calculating the image size for you, after > inputting all the needed options. From what I can see in V10, the > prime option is to use the inline editor, which only prompts to type > the alt and src attributes, and does not auto-fill dimensions. > > The other suggestion I've seen is to drag and drop the image file into > the HTML file, and it will auto-fill the dimensions. But, if you've > set the file type to PHP (like I do for files that have headers and > includes), this doesn't work (i.e., BBEdit does nothing). So, in this > case, the only option is to use the inline palette, which requires > more clicks (and doesn't do the auto-calculation). > > The new non-modal tag editors also have one really annoying aspect in > that they do provide a listing of every possible attribute that > applies to a tag in a drop-down menu, but the drop-down menu requires > me to scroll up and down, even though the menu should easily fit on my > screen. I'm not sure if this is a developer tool limitation or not, > but if it can be changed, I'd vote to do so. > > Find and replace also seems less functional in version 10... maybe > it's just my workflow, but I much prefer the old modal find & replace > window, for two main reasons. First, the existence of the keyboard > shortcuts to toggle options (Command-G to toggle Grep, Command-T to > toggle start at top). And second, what happened to Start at Top? > Losing that is a major bummer to the way I work. Also, losing the > ability to trigger a multi-file search from inside of the regular find > box is a bummer; I do that a lot when I make one change, and then > realize I probably need to make it across a bunch of files. > > I've also noticed that the full screen mode in Lion seems buggy. Every > time I try it, at some point, the ability to mouse to the top of the > screen to reveal the menu bar stops working. BBEdit also assigns the > system keyboard shortcut for enter/exit full screen to another > command, so no dice there. The only option seems to be quitting and > restarting. > > Am I missing something? Are there workarounds or better ways to deal > with these things that I'm missing? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
