BBEdit isn't about just saving as many keystrokes as possible. If you're used to vim, then you'll want to get used to using your mouse more. Take it for what it is. An OS X GUI based editor (mice are not bad, the right tool for the right job). For me BBEdit became amazingly useful when I had to start working in projects that were larger than I could hold in my head at once. It's not as magical feeling as Vim or Sublime Text but it's reliable, powerful, fast, and practical. For me it's the projects and dedicated search and replace windows that won me over. I hardly use clippings still. A lot of other editors features seem really neat (and often they are) but do they really make me that much more productive?
This is just my experience. When I was fiddling with BBEdit it felt like it was lacking, but when I started doing real work with it, I found myself relying more and more on BBEdit and now I'm using it almost exclusively. Jon On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 10:19:58 PM UTC-4, Ben Klebe wrote: > > I bought BBEdit 11 a few months back but I have been using vim for a long > time previously and am used to vim's plugin system. Does anyone have > suggestions for how I can start being more productive in BBEdit today? I'm > sure there's more power in it than I'm aware of without using plugins, so > where should I start learning this? Should I start reading the user manual? > -- 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].
