BBEdit reaches v12

Posted by Paul Korm
Oct 17, 2017 at 09:22 AM

BBEdit—a venerable text editor on macOS—has reached version 12 with a number of new features. It is available at various discount levels depending on when you might have bought a predecessor version.

http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/notes-12.0.html

The authors’ TextWrangler software—which was a free, reduced-feature set version of BBEdit—has been discontinued. The same feature set that was in TextWrangler is now available in BBEdit’s “free demo forever” mode.

BBEdit is an app I always keep in the Dock (taskbar). There are many great features—one of my favorite is the “text factory”, which is essentially a macro engine that will apply a sequence of commands (including Unix command line commands) to the text in a document to transform it. The 30-day demo is worth a try if you work with plain text with any frequency.

(And yes, Bill, when a document is put into “Taskpaper To-do List” mode—and other modes—folding is supported.)

Not available on other OS platforms.