[ANN] BBEdit 14.6

[Rich Siegel]

Good { morning, afternoon, evening },

We are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 
14.6.

This is a free update for anyone using BBEdit 14 (as well as for anyone using 
11.6.8 or later in Free Mode), and includes a number of feature additions, 
refinements to existing features, and fixes for reported issues.

Notable (among many other things) in this update:

*   Rewritten text rendering to add support for font ligatures; improve 
Unicode compatibility; improve performance; and work around macOS bugs;

*   Quick bookmark creation in the FTP/SFTP connection panel;

*   Quick access to the Notes window from the Dock menu;

*   Performance improvements and fixes for reported issues.

A complete digest of the changes since 14.5.2 is available here:

 

If you're already using BBEdit 14 (outside of the Mac App Store), you can 
choose "Check for Updates" from the BBEdit menu, or get the update from the 
BBEdit updates page:

 

For those using an older version: if you would like to upgrade your paid BBEdit 
license, you are welcome to do so, starting here:

 .

BBEdit 14.6 will soon be available in the Mac App Store. If you have an active 
subscription, all of BBEdit's advanced features are active immediately upon 
installing the update: no additional purchase is required.

Meanwhile, BBEdit offers a 30-day evaluation period. During that period, all of 
BBEdit’s features are available. When it ends, you can still use BBEdit — with 
no nag screens or unsolicited interruptions, for free, forever.

After the evaluation period, you may re-enable all of BBEdit’s exclusive 
features at any time by purchasing a license (at a discount, if you have a paid 
license for a previous version).

 

Enjoy,

R.
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Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me.

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[ANN] BBEdit 14.6 (14D013) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good afternoon folks,

We're currently working on an update to BBEdit 14 to add some new features and 
refinements, and address a few recently reported issues.

Note that this is a _pre-release_ version. The intent is to fix bugs and 
address areas of improvement based on what our customers have reported. 
However, since the software is at this point not fully tested, there _may_ be 
bugs and regressions.

If this prospect makes you nervous, then sticking with the public release 
versions is your best course of action. Nobody will be offended if you choose 
to do so; you're under no obligation to install and use anything but a public 
release. :-)

Complete change notes to date for all the pre-release builds in this cycle are 
available here:

  

The change notes are organized into additions, changes, and fixes, and are 
annotated where appropriate with case numbers. So if you recognize a number 
corresponding to a support case that was opened for you, you can now verify 
that it's been fixed correctly. Please take the time to review the changes 
before using the new build -- it'll be worth your time.

One final note: If you run into a bug in a pre-release version, PLEASE DO NOT 
REPORT THE BUG TO THE LIST. This includes asking about whether others have seen 
the same problem. Instead, please send a bug report to  
and we will deal with it there. This will help us keep the list discussion on 
topic and productive for all list members.

Here is the list of changes made since previous 14.6 pre-release:



version 14.6 (14D013)   (09-28-2022)

Additions
-

+   [DOC] Added "Show Notes" to the Dock menu; this will open the
Notes window.

Changes
---

*   [DOC] When running on macOS 13.0 and later, the "Preferences"
menu command reads "Settings", and the title of the Preferences
window is likewise changed to "Settings" as well. (We don't make
the rules, that's just how it is.) The help book and user manual
are not dynamically mutable, and so they will continue to refer
to "Preferences" for quite some time.

*   [450531] When using Zoom In or Zoom Out for a "Preview in
BBEdit" window when running on macOS 11.0 or later, BBEdit will
ask the web view to magnify the contents, so that (if necessary
and appropriate) the contents will reflow.

*   Made some changes to improve the printing experience: progress
is now provided for printing text documents, and the process is
window-modal so that if you are spooling something long, you can
continue working in other documents meanwhile.

Fixes
-

*   [NFR] [451129] Fixed regression in which the "Title Case" change
case option didn't change the text.

*   [NFR] This build contains a lot of internal changes to sanitize
API usage. There should be no visible difference in performance,
stability, or behavior; but if you see something, say something.

*   Disqualify Java `.hprof` files from consideration as HTML or XML
(or as text files, for that matter).

*   [436523] Fixed bug in which Perl variable coloring extended
further than desired in cases like "`$foo->@{'abc', 'def'};`"

*   Racket files are treated as a special case for the
Lisp/Scheme/Clojure language module, including special treatment
of `#|...|#` block comments and `#;` s-expression comments.

*   [450728] Fixed bug in the Unix Shell Script parser in which
hashes ("`#`") in the middle of a string were treated as comment
delimiters, which generally did not have the desired outcome.

*   Fixed display bug in the "Installed Languages" panel in which
the "Menu" column did not immediately reflect the use of "Show
All" or "Hide All".

*   [450817] Fixed bug in which the soft wrap indentation setting
was not saved with a document's state; consequently it would
reset to the preference default when reopening the document.

*   Fixed crash which could sporadically occur when closing the text
document that the Find window was busy searching, and then
activating the Find window again. (This usually happened only
with very large files, but could conceivably happen any time,
with the correct sequence of operations and timing.)

*   [380538] Fixed bug in which adding an item to the
Language-Specific Settings list in the Language preferences would
not scroll it into view.

*   [421409] Turn off the "Soft Wrap Text" option when presenting
the output of Hex Dump {File, Front Document}, since wrapping is
not useful in that case.

*   [450956] Fixed bug in which backslashes in Go raw strings were
improperly treated as character escapes.

* 

[ANN] BBEdit 14.6 (14D007) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good afternoon folks,

We're currently working on an update to BBEdit 14 to add some new features and 
refinements, and address a few recently reported issues.

Note that this is a _pre-release_ version. The intent is to fix bugs and 
address areas of improvement based on what our customers have reported. 
However, since the software is at this point not fully tested, there _may_ be 
bugs and regressions.

If this prospect makes you nervous, then sticking with the public release 
versions is your best course of action. Nobody will be offended if you choose 
to do so; you're under no obligation to install and use anything but a public 
release. :-)

Complete change notes to date for all the pre-release builds in this cycle are 
available here:

  

The change notes are organized into additions, changes, and fixes, and are 
annotated where appropriate with case numbers. So if you recognize a number 
corresponding to a support case that was opened for you, you can now verify 
that it's been fixed correctly. Please take the time to review the changes 
before using the new build -- it'll be worth your time.

One final note: If you run into a bug in a pre-release version, PLEASE DO NOT 
REPORT THE BUG TO THE LIST. This includes asking about whether others have seen 
the same problem. Instead, please send a bug report to  
and we will deal with it there. This will help us keep the list discussion on 
topic and productive for all list members.

Here is the list of changes made since the 14.5.2 public release:



version 14.6 (14D007)   (09-06-2022)

Additions
-

*   [DOC] The bookmark menu in the FTP/SFTP connection panel gets
"Add Bookmark" and "Manage Bookmarks" commands, so you can
perform those operations before connecting, if desired.

*   [DOC] Added settings to the "Editing" preferences to specify
alternative characters for Show Invisibles, for tabs and for line
breaks. The arrows next to the respective edit fields will open
the macOS character panel. There are some restrictions; you can't
use letters and numbers, for example. You *should* use
punctuation, since that is generally more readable. The factory
defaults are "∆" (U+2206, "`INCREMENT`" option-J on US keyboards)
for tabs, and "¬" (U+00AC, "`NOT SIGN`", option-L on US
keyboards) for line breaks.

Changes
---

*   The low-level text rendering in BBEdit's editing engine has been
reworked to improve performance and OS compatibility (including
future macOS releases).

This change also brings improvements to Unicode character rendering
and application stability, and includes workarounds for longstanding
macOS bugs and performance regressions (Radar 34909871, FB5433254,
FB7654002, FB9979006, FB10429697, FB9971063) which manifested as a
constellation of symptoms, including:

*   application hangs at startup (usually displaying "waiting
for macOS…" in the startup progress panel);

*   application stalls when coming to the foreground after more
than a minute of non-use in the background;

*   failure to render character glyphs in the editing area, such
that windows appeared to be blank;

*   failure to display ligatures when supported by the font in use;

*   use of a (system-determined) display font instead of the one 
specified
in the Editor Defaults preferences.

*   slower than expected application startup time;

*   Since (with the new text rendering) Unicode "private use area"
characters are no longer quite so toxic, the `DisplayPrivateAreaGlyphs`
expert preference is now on by default.

*   Made changes so that Open File by Name doesn't completely tie up
the application in cases where building the search cache takes a
very long time. In such situations it'll be the same amount of
time before you get search results, but the application will
remain responsive for other uses in the meantime.

*   When connected to an SFTP server, symlinks in the browser
window's listing will be annotated with the target of the
symlink.

Fixes
-

*   Made changes to reduce the amount of directory rescanning for
the directory caching used in Open File by Name and some other
places.

*   Made a change to conserve memory used by marker data and other
structures.

*   Changing a setting in a project's Site Settings panel will clear
the deployment state, so that you don't have to remember to use
"Re-Deploy Entire Site".

*   [449991] Fixed bug in which completing a macOS system text
replacement (if allowed in the Com