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BBEdit is one of the oldest text editor for the Macintosh. It was initially released back in 1992 for Macintosh System 6. It's still one of the very best ones available. I just upgraded to the latest version BBEdit version 16. 😎

https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/

#MacOS #Macintosh #BBEdit #TextEditor #Tools #Apple #AppleSilicon

BBEdit 16 Is Here

https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit16.html

#HackerNews #BBEdit #BBEdit16 #NewRelease #TextEditor #SoftwareUpdate

I used to love that you could drop a folder on a text file in BBEdit, and then get a hierarchical view of files and folders in that folder.

Then I discovered the 'tree' command.

Still love BBEdit, though!

#bbedit #tree #cli

EDIT: It's fake! I change the link with the message of the original developer.

[Well, I'm using #BBEdit ... but here's #NotePad++ for Mac:]

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/04/notepad-plus-plus-trademark-violation/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=69f8cddd2a4c7200012637ed

EDIT: It's fake! I change the link with the message of the original developer.

[Well, I'm using #BBEdit ... but here's #NotePad++ for Mac:]

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/04/notepad-plus-plus-trademark-violation/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=69f8cddd2a4c7200012637ed

EDIT: It's fake! I change the link with the message of the original developer.

[Well, I'm using #BBEdit ... but here's #NotePad++ for Mac:]

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/04/notepad-plus-plus-trademark-violation/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=69f8cddd2a4c7200012637ed

EDIT: It's fake! I change the link with the message of the original developer.

[Well, I'm using #BBEdit ... but here's #NotePad++ for Mac:]

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/04/notepad-plus-plus-trademark-violation/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=69f8cddd2a4c7200012637ed

EDIT: It's fake! I change the link with the message of the original developer.

[Well, I'm using #BBEdit ... but here's #NotePad++ for Mac:]

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/04/notepad-plus-plus-trademark-violation/?link_source=ta_first_comment&taid=69f8cddd2a4c7200012637ed

I haven't jumped on the #Obsidian or #Notion bandwagon. I write in #BBEdit, #OmniOutliner, Apple Notes, #nvUltra and #1Writer. Each has its use. I link all the information with Hookmark. Hookmark's linking is much more general than Obsidian's

I haven't jumped on the #Obsidian or #Notion bandwagon. I write in #BBEdit, #OmniOutliner, Apple Notes, #nvUltra and #1Writer. Each has its use. I link all the information with Hookmark. Hookmark's linking is much more general than Obsidian's

I haven't jumped on the #Obsidian or #Notion bandwagon. I write in #BBEdit, #OmniOutliner, Apple Notes, #nvUltra and #1Writer. Each has its use. I link all the information with Hookmark. Hookmark's linking is much more general than Obsidian's

I haven't jumped on the #Obsidian or #Notion bandwagon. I write in #BBEdit, #OmniOutliner, Apple Notes, #nvUltra and #1Writer. Each has its use. I link all the information with Hookmark. Hookmark's linking is much more general than Obsidian's

I haven't jumped on the #Obsidian or #Notion bandwagon. I write in #BBEdit, #OmniOutliner, Apple Notes, #nvUltra and #1Writer. Each has its use. I link all the information with Hookmark. Hookmark's linking is much more general than Obsidian's

when one tool is not enough - why i use different writing apps for different tasks

http://cogmodo.com/onewritingtoolperwritingtask

@drafts
@bbedit
@ia
@obsidian
@ulyssesapp

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #iamwriting #software #drafts #bbedit #obsidian #iawriter #ulysses #ios #mac #apple

when one tool is not enough - why i use different writing apps for different tasks

http://cogmodo.com/onewritingtoolperwritingtask

@drafts
@bbedit
@ia
@obsidian
@ulyssesapp

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #iamwriting #software #drafts #bbedit #obsidian #iawriter #ulysses #ios #mac #apple

when one tool is not enough - why i use different writing apps for different tasks

http://cogmodo.com/onewritingtoolperwritingtask

@drafts
@bbedit
@ia
@obsidian
@ulyssesapp

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #iamwriting #software #drafts #bbedit #obsidian #iawriter #ulysses #ios #mac #apple

when one tool is not enough - why i use different writing apps for different tasks

http://cogmodo.com/onewritingtoolperwritingtask

@drafts
@bbedit
@ia
@obsidian
@ulyssesapp

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #iamwriting #software #drafts #bbedit #obsidian #iawriter #ulysses #ios #mac #apple

when one tool is not enough - why i use different writing apps for different tasks

http://cogmodo.com/onewritingtoolperwritingtask

@drafts
@bbedit
@ia
@obsidian
@ulyssesapp

#blog #writing #writingcommunity #iamwriting #software #drafts #bbedit #obsidian #iawriter #ulysses #ios #mac #apple

Summerfest is on! Many great apps such as #Scrivener, #BBEdit, #EagleFiler, #Bookends, #Nisus Writer Pro, #Trickster and Hookmark are 25% off @eastgate

EditorConfig | #editor #configuration #coding #style #vim #bbedit #gitea #pycharm #sourcehut #opensource #codelite #gogs #atom #brackets #clion #coda #eclipse #emacs #gedit #geany #jedit #netbeans #notepad++ #sublimetext #vscode #gradle #maven #ant https://editorconfig.org/

There is software that I hope will never disappear: #Transmit, #Devonthink, #BBedit and #Steermouse....

The MX Anywhere 3 is my favorite mouse, but the Logitech software is .... not ... so .... good.

Steermouse does the job!

✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

#webdesign #TimBernersLee #html #CSS #webstandards #W3C #AListApart #mosaic #netscape #BBEdit #yahoo #Geocities #Lycos #OperaBrowser #BatmanForever #PHP #lyndaDotCom #PageMill #AltaVista #Flash #DHTML #Dreamweaver #Mozilla #Fireworks #k10k #DontMakeMeThink #wikipedia #Pixelsurgeon #BoxModelHack #CSSZenGarden #WordPress #MySpace #DesigningWithWebStandards

@robpike This is one reason I prefer @bbedit on #macOS. It handles massive files with aplomb.

#BBEdit #Mac

Ashamed to say, this experiment has not gone very well so far. While #BBEdit seems very nice for working with Svelte, I'm running into issues with React (for my volunteer gig) and Astro (for my personal website).

I'm much happier with it for writing Swift however, and would happily make the switch if I could just find a JSX language module.

My challenge to myself this week is to do all my development work in #BBEdit.

Anyway, tonight I got the various LSPs I use all configured. I've started tinkering with keybindings to be closer to my VSCode/Zed preferences but I guess I can't use "option" as the sole modifier key for any key combos???

#webdev #typescript

Il y a un truc que j'adore avec l'application #BBEdit, c'est que, lorsqu'on veut encadrer un groupe de caractères/mots par des parenthèses, crochets, guillemets ou autres signes du même genre, il suffit de sélectionner ce qu'on veut encadrer, taper sur le caractère d'ouverture, et par défaut, ça ajoute le caractère de fermeture automatiquement, et ce de part et d'autre de la sélection. Du coup, quand je suis dans une autre application, par réflexe, je fais pareil, sauf que... ben, ça efface ma sélection. Et ça m'énerve d'une force !!! 😂

@ttscoff It’s gotten so bad that I have a #BBEdit Text Factory just to clean up #AI-generated #Markdown

One of macOS's (many) annoying behaviors is carrying over search terms between apps. So if I'm searching for something in Mail, then search for something in Notes, when I go back to Mail suddenly my previous search has been wiped out and Mail is searching for whatever I was trying to find in Notes, and I have to search Mail again…which screws up my search in Notes. Lather Rinse Repeat Definition of Insanity.

Thankfully, @bbedit is way ahead of me:

defaults write com.barebones.bbedit FindDialog_UsesFindScrap -bool NO

#macos #bbedit

Congratulations to @siegel, creator of the legendary web and text editor BBEdit, on his profile interview in the App Store. #BBEdit #WebDevelopment #WebDesignCommunity #software

@davidgerard @rolenthedeep

#BBEdit has retained more or less the same UI for the better part of — what? — 30 years? It’s brilliant.

I somehow managed to make the #BBEdit software hang...that's a sign of an impending apocalypse right?

I am once again writing my own BBEdit Language Module. #BBEdit

Links of Note 2025-06-06
https://bicycleforyourmind.com/links%20of%20note%202025-06-06
#macOS #font #bbedit #markdown #apple

If you use either #BBEdit or #SublimeText can you please tell me if it's possible to select a paragraph of text in an html file, and then do some keyboard thingy that will make a <p> and a </p> appear magically in their respective correct places, enclosing the paragraph?

Wondering how much more of my day I want to devote to looking for tech support. One thing is totally outside of my control, the other two things are #BBEdit issues that should be findable, but I can't seem to get the answers.

I even finally asked ChatGPT, and it confidently said "Yes! Here's how you do that...", then every time I'd respond with, "that menu item doesn't exist," it would say, "You're right! Let's try again...."

Meanwhile, it's sunny out. Do I really need a website?
<headdesk>

BBEdit 15.5 intègre des espaces de travail et Apple Intelligence http://dlvr.it/TL2sC4 #BBEdit #Apple

“Do not taunt happy fun #BBEdit.” (Ok, it doesn’t say that. I imagine you may taunt freely.)

“#BBEdit is not a replacement for Preview or any other PDF tool.”

“Note that #BBEdit is still not a spreadsheet.”
https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/notes-15.5.html

@grammargirl I've had a fun journey for saving a huge amount of links for future reference.

I can't get myself to like Apple Numbers so Excel is my default & links don't save there as clickable. I found that #scrivener saves immediately as a clickable link so I shoved TONS of links and things into a giant file until it started to slow WAY down. Maybe misuse of tools?😏

I recently moved over to a #bbedit project which seems to have NO limits… well, other than you can't save graphics.

@devontechnologies It would be really neat if you would collaborate with @bbedit on a common way to specify AI chat models. Users of #BBEdit’s AI Chat Worksheets could then have the same available across both applications.

See https://www.barebones.com/support/technotes/AIWorksheetModels.html for how it’s currently done with a fairly simple JSON-based format. As an example, I’ve successfully used it to add #Perplexity to BBEdit.

@geoffduncan @bbedit The “Guide Contrast” slider in #BBEdit's Appearance settings also controls the contrast of tab stop grid lines

#BBEdit's Language Server Protocol support (https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/lsp-notes.html) is a godsend, but sometimes it does shoot its mouth off a bit. 🤡

/ @bbedit

#YAML #DevOps

✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

#webdesign #TimBernersLee #html #CSS #webstandards #W3C #AListApart #mosaic #netscape #BBEdit #yahoo #Geocities #Lycos #OperaBrowser #BatmanForever #PHP #lyndaDotCom #PageMill #AltaVista #Flash #DHTML #Dreamweaver #Mozilla #Fireworks #k10k #DontMakeMeThink #wikipedia #Pixelsurgeon #BoxModelHack #CSSZenGarden #WordPress #MySpace #DesigningWithWebStandards

✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

#webdesign #TimBernersLee #html #CSS #webstandards #W3C #AListApart #mosaic #netscape #BBEdit #yahoo #Geocities #Lycos #OperaBrowser #BatmanForever #PHP #lyndaDotCom #PageMill #AltaVista #Flash #DHTML #Dreamweaver #Mozilla #Fireworks #k10k #DontMakeMeThink #wikipedia #Pixelsurgeon #BoxModelHack #CSSZenGarden #WordPress #MySpace #DesigningWithWebStandards

✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

#webdesign #TimBernersLee #html #CSS #webstandards #W3C #AListApart #mosaic #netscape #BBEdit #yahoo #Geocities #Lycos #OperaBrowser #BatmanForever #PHP #lyndaDotCom #PageMill #AltaVista #Flash #DHTML #Dreamweaver #Mozilla #Fireworks #k10k #DontMakeMeThink #wikipedia #Pixelsurgeon #BoxModelHack #CSSZenGarden #WordPress #MySpace #DesigningWithWebStandards

✩✩✩✩✩ Web Design History Timeline ✩✩✩✩✩

Bit o’ nostalgia for the old folks.

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history

#webdesign #TimBernersLee #html #CSS #webstandards #W3C #AListApart #mosaic #netscape #BBEdit #yahoo #Geocities #Lycos #OperaBrowser #BatmanForever #PHP #lyndaDotCom #PageMill #AltaVista #Flash #DHTML #Dreamweaver #Mozilla #Fireworks #k10k #DontMakeMeThink #wikipedia #Pixelsurgeon #BoxModelHack #CSSZenGarden #WordPress #MySpace #DesigningWithWebStandards

Why Emacs and Not BBEdit and TaskPaper
https://bicycleforyourmind.com/why_emacs_and_not_bbedit
#emacs #bbedit #taskpaper

Congratulations @siegel and @bbedit for another great feature story on the #Mac #AppStore. "Where Respect Is Due," indeed!

https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1435835881

Here are some earlier #BBEdit stories:

• Why it's the #TextEditor of choice for #coding, #writing, #DataScience, and more: https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1433999132

• Tips for prose #writers: https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1451975928

• Learn and experiment with #RegularExpressions for finding and modifying text in your actual work—safely! https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id1485320067
#RegEx #RegExes

Upgrading @bbedit to a new major version via the #macOS terminal and @homebrew:

```
brew upgrade --cask --greedy bbedit
```

https://mastodon.social/@bbedit/111727873859115272

#BBEdit #MacHomebrew