Brett Kelly <[email protected]> squaked out on Wed 27-Jul-2011 21:49 > > If somebody asked you, my new friend, why you use BBEdit, what would > you tell them?
1) It’s never crashed on me (well, once, when something stealth installed APE, but I don’t count that). Considering how much work I do in BBEdit this is a *HUGE* advantage. 2) It doesn’t suck. (No, really, this is so rare that it’s worth mentioning). 3) Full and complete regex support. I’m no regex expert by any means, but I use a subset of regex all the time, every day. Being able to access the history of the regex expressions I’ve used is nice as if I mistype something I can go back and fix it instead of starting all over like I do with vim/MacVim. 4) Setup command keys the way you want and attach scripts to any command. I’m not doing this presently, but I did it in the past and it is extremely powerful. 5) Shell worksheets allow me to use the BBEdit text tools on, for example, lists of filenames. I do this a lot. It’s a lot simpler than with MacVim. 6) HTML tools are brilliant and make coding pages a lot easier (this is why I bought BBEdit, though nowadays I do a lot less of this than I did). 7) LaTeX integration 8) no-regex power. Text menu, prefix/suffix lines is stupidly useful. A lot of times all I want to do with a large block of text is, for example, add <li> to the start and </li> to the end. In BBEdit I don’t need to write a albeit simple regex, it just does it. 9) All the stuff I don’t use, like Projects, Scripts, Text-Factories, and Clippings. I use MacVim a lot as well, and have been using some version of vi for more than 25 years now (egads!), but when I can, I use BBEdit instead. -- when you're no longer searching for beauty or love, just some kind of life with the edges taken off. When you can't even define what it is that you're frightened of... -- 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>
