I often use BBEdit as a convenience for shell scripting. The Text, Edit, and Markup menus (plus factories) almost always do what I need. If a step turns out wrong, I can ⌘Z to back out. A more muscular scripter might have strung the tasks and special cases into something fit for repeated use, but (1) wouldn't do this more than once, and (2) even if I would, I'd still need to experiment with what the script has to do.
--- For example, a client copied a thousand Mac Illustrator files to Windows. They were created when resource forks were common. Apple solved this by treating resource forks as invisible files under POSIX. Mass-copying a directory across the Mac/Windows barrier resulted in both the intended data and the mangled resource files. This was unworkable. Further, the files had been created by typists who by muscle memory used space characters to terminate words, including file names. This upset the Windows UI and prevented renaming and deletion. There were scores of special cases. BBEdit let me experiment without worrying about data loss — bash commands don't have ⌘Z. — F > On Oct 27, 2024, at 2:45 PM, Maarten Sneep <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 27 Oct 2024, at 15:38, Rick Yentzer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I've used BBEdit for a long time, I think I started with v6. I mostly use it >> for writing in markdown and off and on with web development and python. >> >> I'd like to start using it for other tasks as well, but not sure yet which >> ones. >> >> So, what do you use it for? Maybe we can all have lightbulb moments. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/CD03F5A3-A2FC-472D-8AED-6077C4D71802%40gmail.com.
