On 8 Feb 2015, at 05:16, Watts Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > I use BBEdit for technical writing on my job. While this is highly anecdotal, > I've noticed a lot of people using BBEdit for non-coding work, which is > interesting. (I would personally love it if BBEdit's syntax highlighting > engine had the capability to show Markdown bold and italics by actually > bolding and italicizing text, underlining links, etc., although I'm not sure > how trivial that is.)
The “Preview in BBEdit” function mostly achieves this. It does mean you’ll have two windows open for each document though. I also use Byword for editing Markdown documents. My preference for which editor to use changes depending on my mood and the weather. Sometimes I prefer Byword’s “formatting” of Markdown (markup is faded out, marked-up headings are bold and larger, italicised or bolded words actually are italicised or bolded). Other times I prefer BBEdit’s handling. Neither are “WYSIWYG” editors though. > It's hard to know what BBEdit is failing at for you because "powerfully > categorizing, tagging, organizing and prioritizing docs" is really going to > change from person to person. For me, the one thing BBEdit is missing is the drop-down sheet for changing the document name, and more importantly modifying tags. I use tags for doing my categorising, tagging, etc. Then I use Finder to find the documents I’m after (or more specifically, Spotlight window with “show all in Finder”). > *No, I haven't filed a feature request to add git integration, but I'm going > to guess Bare Bones has gotten one or two thousand such requests from other > people by this point. I’ve been happily using Atlasssian’s “SourceTree” git GUI side-by-side with BBEdit. “The right tool for the right job” and all that :) Of course “the right tool for the right job” might sometimes be “using BBEdit as your diff-viewer for git”: http://briandigital.tumblr.com/post/19233631926/how-to-use-bbedit-to-look-at-differences-between .git/config: [diff] tool = "bbdiff" [difftool] prompt = NO [difftool "bbdiff"] cmd = bbdiff --wait --resume "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" command line: git difftool HEAD~1 filename There are more convoluted git-based workflows: http://www.speirs.org/blog/2008/9/22/git-committing-workflow-with-bbedit.html But I digress. Alex -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. 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> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
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