I usually abstain from these things, but I'm a little bored, so why not...
On Mar 18, 2013, at 11:27 AM, David Foster <davidf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sublime Text and TextMate have all but supplanted BBEdit in terms of > mindshare in the circles that I travel in. I would agree with that. There are a thousand reasons, but it ultimately comes down to the fact that bare bones has a vision for what BBEdit should be, and it's not anything like TextMate or Sublime, or any of their clones. The people on this list use BBEdit for their own reasons - and I would agree that those reasons are slowly being thinned down, but they are far from gone. Nothing else matches BBEdit's support, documentation, and ease of use - but not everyone priorities these things, a lot of people want (or think they want) raw power and flexibility - something TextMate and Sublime put front and center. > However BBEdit is an extremely capable editor and it bothers me that new Mac > users are either not finding it or not selecting it. More competition is > better. BBEdit has a widely-known reputation as an extremely stable and powerful editor. Perhaps for some people this doesn't matter as much as other things... > ** Highly recommend adding videos for feature highlights and tutorials. > People don't seem to read long bodies of copy these days. I agree with this. Bare Bone's website is decidedly old-school. I'd love to see someone like brett terpstra show-off how cool BBEdit is in some screencasts. I also think Bare Bones could to more to collect community-written packages (etc) that extend BBEdit in great ways - but this is a challenge all editors face. > * Improve program aesthetics > ** Good job with the retina display support, but there is still more work to > do... I completely disagree. BBEdit is in a class by itself in this regard. While it may not be as flashy as something like Coda or Espresso, the consistency of the interface is peerless and delicate considerations abound. Take for example how far the first line of text is from the top of the window. Almost every editor I've ever used crams that first line up against the edge of the window, only BBEdit pads it by a few pixels. Or the subtle 1px borders on the line-highlight - it's beautiful! Also consider the dialogue boxes, each is very fell thought-out and easy to understand - I've never come across an unintelligible alert while using BBEdit. > ** Incremental find I completely agree with this one. Incremental find that's good enough, and quick enough to use, for skipping around lighting-fast inside a paragraph is something I sorely miss from other editors. I've written my own scripts for this, but a built-in solution would be better. > ** The language-specific text snippets built-in to TextMate are quite useful. > It is possible to create custom scripts in BBEdit that have similar > functionality, but it is clumsy. I agree that more could be done there. BBEdit has clipping sets that change based on the language of the front-document, why not scripts or text filters? Binding something simple like <return> to different scripts based on language makes the editor feel better - the editor does the right thing regardless of the language. In particular I'm disappointed that text filters act on the selection or the entire document, more fine-grained control over what the filter should apply to when there is no selection would be nice. What makes TextMate (and clones like Sublime) so powerful and flexible is the user-accessable document-scoping system. This allows the same keybinding to behave in radically different ways depending on the language and the exact position of the insertion point in the document. In my opinion this is obviously the way all text editors should behave, and anything else will eventually be outdated. But for now I get along just fine in BBEdit. > *** Naturally making BBEdit cross-platform would likely be very > development-intensive. Hahaha, "development intensive", that's good. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
