Know anyone who'd like using BBEdit but finds it too geeky? The following pref tweaks make BBEdit friendly to writers, yielding a familiar plain rectangle for new docs and a less cluttered look for those accustomed to word processors (whose WYSIWYG approach is getting as archaic as steam engines).
I'd always used BBEdit for web dev, and sometimes for blog posts, but these tweaks left me with an app I can live for all writing tasks (exception: book publishers still need DOCX files). ========== *Prefs: Appearance* Deselect line numbers and gutter *Prefs: Application* Deselect “Always Show Full Paths in Open Recent Menu Select “When Bbedit Becomes Active, New Text Document” *Prefs: Editing* "Show Text Completions Only Manually" Deselect “Display Instances of Selected Text *Prefs: Editor Defaults* Select “Softwrap Text to: Character Width: 80 Default Font: I like Optima Regular 14 *Prefs: Printing* Deselect “Print Page Headers” Deselect “Print Full Pathname” Deselect “Print Line Numbers” Deselect “Print Color Syntax” Unfortunately, we’re stuck with either time stamp or "date saved" stamp *Prefs: Text Files* Select "Make Backup Before Saving" Select "Keep Historical Backgrounds" *Prefs: menus and shortcuts* Choose "Simple Menus" (button at lower left) Deselect #!, *View Menu* Hide Navigation Bar Text Display: Hide Page Guide Text Display: Hide Gutter -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://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.
