Good afternoon, We're working on a feature update to BBEdit 15, and a pre-release version is now available.
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: <https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/15.1_Notes.txt> 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 <sup...@barebones.com> 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 15.0.3 public release: ================================================================================ version 15.1 (15B9) 2024-04-25 Additions --------- + [DOC] "ChatGPT Worksheets" are branching out; the renamed "AI Chat Worksheet" preferences provide settings to select alternative services. Included with the application are service models for ChatGPT, [Claude](https://claude.ai/), and [Ollama](https://www.ollama.com). You can also add your own services and endpoints, as long as they use an API that is compatible with OpenAI's (or close enough that BBEdit can't tell the difference). The status bar item for AI worksheets shows the service name along with the model name. You can switch services in an AI chat worksheet, and also clear the chat/response history if desired. (This may be necessary in cases where enough history accumulates that the service rejects or limits request lengths.) Changing services requires clearing the history. [NFR] Documentation and examples are forthcoming; if this is something you want to do right now, please write to support. * [DOC] Added a "Decompose Unicode" transformation. + [DOC] Added a setting to the "Expert" settings panel list so that it only shows values that have been changed from their factory defaults. * Added binding points for the remaining dynamic commands on the "Insert" submenu to the Menus & Shortcuts preferences. Changes ------- * [DOC] Rearranged the Languages preferences panel to make more room for custom language settings as well as for customized filename extension mappings. * Improved soft wrapping behavior when wrapping to the Page Guide and a variable-pitch font is in use. (Note that when using such a font, the notion of wrapping to a fixed number of characters doesn't apply, so the actual position of the page guide is approximated.) * BBEdit will now try to automatically guess JSON, so that if you paste some into an untitled document, you won't have to remember to manually set the language if you want to use "Reformat Document" to pretty-print it. * Reworked the default placement and size of new document windows; they are now centered in the main display and occupy a less-than-total fraction of the available display height. * If a file is opened from inside of the Xcode platform/SDK tree, the document path in the navigation bar will be condensed to elide irrelevant path elements, in order to save space. * When the mouse is over an area where single-clicking selects a line, BBEdit will change the cursor to a reversed arrow. (This restores an old feature that went out with the bathwater a long time ago.) * Assigned keyboard equivalents (as configured in the Menus & Shortcuts preferences) are stored now as a JSON file, which should work around macOS APIs crashing if the old binary plist format gets corrupted or conflicted. Fixes ----- * [NFR] This build includes several internal fixes intended to address lurking code correctness issues. These changes should be invisible, but please report any unexpected behavior changes immediately to Tech Support (supp...@barebones.com). * [477600] Fixed bug in which "Update Site" on a project might generate incorrect results for site-relative placeholders (such as `REAL_URL`) when multiple projects were open and the affected files were present in more than one of the open projects. * Fixed misfeature in which PHP superglobal references were colored as predefined symbols, which prevented double-click variable selection from working for them. * [479230] Fixed crash at startup which would occur with certain malformations in `~/.zshrc`. * Fixed misplacement of the key binding points for the legacy "Insert" menu commands in the Menus & Shortcuts preferences. (They're under "Miscellaneous" but were buried under an irrelevant heading.) * Changes to improve performance when iterating large directories in disk browsers and project window folder listings. * Made some performance improvements to the "is a Zip archive" and "is a tarball" tests. * Prompts sent to the chat API are now stored in the history only *after* the API responds affirmatively. This ensures API behavior correctness in the wake of errors (timeouts, account limits, or otherwise) and fixes a problem in which Claude worksheets would become inoperative after errors. * Restored the ability to configure keyboard equivalents for Insert Time Stamp (short and long) and Insert Page Break that was lost in rearchitecture with 15.0. * Fixed a typo in an error message that might occur while trying to install the command line tools. *fin* The package can be downloaded from our web server: https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-15.1_15B9.dmg Enjoy, R. -- Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. <sie...@barebones.com> <https://www.barebones.com/> Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me. -- 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 "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. 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