MacCooler wrote:
The fact of the matter is that the current placement sucks. EVERY editor I have, except for BBE10 (or is it X), has the files on the RIGHT, not the LEFT.
Really? Every editor? All the editors that I see tend to list files/projects on the left, and either use tabs for open documents -- which means open documents show up along the top or the bottom, generally speaking (see XCode, TextMate, Coda) -- or a concept much like BBEdit 10's (see Espresso's 'Workspace', or Sublime Text 2, which inexplicably does both).
By sticking open files in a separate drawer, BBEdit 9 wasn't doing "what EVERY editor does," it was doing its own iconoclastic thing. It also wasted an awful lot of screen space. Unless you closed the drawer, of course, and just had the list of project files and used the little dropdown to change files. Which you can do in BBEdit 10, if it floats your boat. In any case, I for one am happy to see the damn drawer go the way of the dodo.
BB seems to be going the way of Apple. Do it our way or f-off.
BBEdit has always come across to me as, to use someone else's phrase, opinionated software.
Speaking of the "other half" (an arrogant statement) how about tab completion!
For completing... what? Is this something different than the "Complete" command on the edit menu, bound by default to F5, or are you suggesting that we should be able to bind that to TAB the way TextMate does, so TAB does different things depending on context? Because while I wouldn't mind that, judging by how much people freak out over small things like whether the file list is on the left or the right side -- can you imagine? -- I bet that would cause one heck of a poop storm 'round these parts.
-- Watts Martin <[email protected]>
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