I have to say that with each release BBEdit becomes more like the other guys, losing the eccentricities that make it so useful and comfortable (and superior) to me.
Long ago I bemoaned the loss of a helpful "bug/feature" that allowed me to quickly move down a column, making changes, and remaining in that column. BareBones labeled this "curious up/down bug" and removed it, replaced it, and permanently removed it again (never to be seen again) rather than making it an optional feature. Now with the jump to 9, they have made the find and replace keystrokes I use daily (read live by) and relegated them to an optional old style modal search box. (Not to mention the lack of an option to turn off editing within Disk Browsers. And other little nuance changes that I'm noticing throughout the day...) I know there were features I lost in 8.0 and 8.6 as well, and now as the feature set keeps dwindling to become more like the competition I'm forced to consider wether BareBones isn't trying to encourage me to switch to a less expensive competitor. If I'm going to have to pay to lose 1 great feature to get a handful of new features, which will also rewrite my muscle memory for the key commands (or make my list of customizations grow), I have to wonder why I bother upgrading at all... Most of the features I chose BBEdit for originally have been renamed, moved, or removed since I first paid for my upgrade from BBEdit Lite... The features that remain unique to BBEdit are mostly not something I use. Every time BareBones asks me for more money to stay current I find myself downloading demos of TextMate and Coda, only to find that there's still some tiny facet of BBEdit's philosophy that I still can hang on to —those facets are rapidly falling away... I'd dig out my copy of BBEdit 7 if it worked halfway decently on an Intel Mac with 10.5... Anyone else feel the same? I'm sure eventually I'll give into change, and after a few weeks of lowered productivity I'll cope with the new version —I just find it terrible that "cope" and "new version" go hand in hand. Every new version of Mac OS X, Transmit, Apple Mail, Photoshop, pretty much every app I meet with each day usually brings about enough new and useful (and intuitive) change that I would never use the word "cope" to describe acclimating to them... BBEdit has been the only really consistent love/hate piece of software I've owned, every time a new version comes out I'm excited to try it and within 10 minutes totally bummed out by it, only to eventually "settle" for what BareBones thinks is best. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
