I've been using BBEdit for at least 13 years, and probably longer. I've always had a lot of confidence in Bare Bones, so I'm assuming and hoping that what I've encountered with 10.0, which is the only painful upgrade I can remember, has alternatives to what I'm encountering. The PDF manual, however, is a bit impenetrable.
Today I was doing some editing and made the following notes. Virtually everything I do frequently has apparently been broken, and it's really throwing me off. Does anyone have ideas for how to get around the following? Can no longer re-edit a tag using Command-Option-M (I don't remember the name of the command as I have not looked in the menu for many years). Adding an image via the new markup panel is very cumbersome: (a) apparently no keyboard shortcut to invoke a file chooser dialog; (b) no way to resize the file chooser dialog when it's at the bottom of the screen--Apple's "fault" perhaps but would not have been an issue in the old BBEdit edit link dialog; (c) no size tags once a file is selected; (d) apparently enforced alt text, inserted even if I delete it. Disappearance of an easy way to do heading tags--the dialog with the h1, h2, etc. buttons is apparently gone. This is a good example of how everything in the new version takes more effort. I used to be able to type Command-Control-H, then say Command-2, and I'd be set. Now I have to type Command-M, TYPE 'h2', hit Return, and hit Return again. This is more than twice as many steps, and one of them involves typing. Inserting an 'id' and 'name' for an element is almost too much work to bother with now. Even just the 'id' requires typing, unlike in the old dialog. Invoking LaunchBar to get a previously copied text string into the markup panel dismisses it. Arrrrghh! The Paragraph… command seems broken, as it seems "dumb" and only wraps the entire selection in paragraph tags. This is what the next command in the Block Elements submenu, Paragraph, is for, no? When I select text and make a paragraph out of it (using the Paragraph… command), the whole paragraph, including tags, used to be selected. Now only the original text is selected, necessitating a manual Select Paragraph to do another operation (I often add a <blockquote>). There is an extra line inserted at the bottom of the file. About 1,238,432 times in recent years I have been able to type Command-down arrow and know that I'd arrived at the end of the last tag in the document. No more. Very hard to unlearn. Why? -- 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>
