On Nov 27, 2017, at 08:51, Madelyn Bingham <madelyn.bing...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Can someone tell me what makes BBEdit different or better than other code > editors? I understand it is mostly geared towards Apple Products, but I could > just as easily download Notepad++ or Brackets on my Macintosh, which seem to > be more popular. Are there any special features about BBEdit that make it > special or set it apart? What are some tips and tricks to using this code > editor?
Plenty of others have echoed my thoughts, especially as Kerri mentions opening gigantic files and doing search & replace, which kills most other editors. I use the text filters (writing shell scripts/Python to process my text) constantly. But the biggest ones are speed and stability. I type fast, and expect to be able to jump around in a document tree, and see a live preview when writing Markdown. Atom with a bunch of plugins is about as good as BBEdit for complex code and regex work, but it's unusable on big files, can slow down to a dead crawl, the syntax coloring can die and need a reload, and it's generally flaky, whereas BBEdit keeps up and keeps working. It's the Terminator of text editors. -- Mark Damon Hughes <kamikaze.m...@gmail.com> -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" 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 bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
