On Nov 27, 2017, at 08:51, Madelyn Bingham <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> -- 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]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
