Open FIle by Name
I do what I'm told. Maybe I shouldn't. I downloaded 10.1.1 and immediately seem to have been bombed out of one of BBEdit's useful features. Open File by Name no longer works properly. I select my URL (relative to root) — and instead of instantly getting the file, get a window in which that URL appears, and a button suggests I Search. I do, and it tells me it can't find anything. With a brainstorm, I truncate the URL to the last bit (after the last slash), and then Search. It grinds a bit, and gives me a collection of possibilities, among which the correct item. Thank goodness I didn't want something called . . .home.html, of which there are maybe a thousand on my site (which runs to about 10,000 webpages). Why this horrible change? Is there some setting I can bypass to return to the former behavior?? -- 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
changes to Find
I've been a user of BBEdit for over 10 years, and there's surely nothing better on the market; and usually, with every new version, I find nifty improvements. I'll also preface this by saying that, resistant as I can be to change, I've immediately adjusted, and happily too, to each new version. With version 10 though, it's not a matter of me adjusting or not, but what I feel to be the introduction of real flaws. The worst course reversal has been in the Find function, and I hope it'll be set right again in the next version. Specifically: One of the very nice arrangements in previous versions was the handling of the Live Find feature. I used to do a Live Find on a document, then go to another document and do the same Live Find on it with no further ado. Now, I have to reënter the same thing all over again for each document. The Live Find also worked so that when I found the instance I was looking for I could just type over it, or arrow my way to what I wanted from there. No more! Now, I have to press Tab; to continue with the Live Find, I then have to go back to the Live Find box etc. Very irritating. A corollary of this new handling of Live Find: It used to be that when you were thru with one live find, you could proceed with another, by rekeying the key equivalent. Now if you do that, you still have the previous one to get rid of. The two separate Find windows don't make much sense; all the more so that if you change one, the other is changed as well. (The two separate windows might make some sense if they allowed us to have one search in a document, the other over a set of document. Even then, not much.) In the Find window, I used to be able to specify Case Sensitive, Entire Word, and GREP, Wrap Around, Case Sensitive in the Find window — with command keys. That's gone (and the check boxes for them to boot have shrunk really small): very, very inconvenient. ▸Please restore the command-key equivalents! And, especially if you don't do that, at least make those checkboxes some normal size again so we don't have to have the fine fingers of brain surgeons to click on them! I used to be able to manage my Find Patterns, from a very handy window reached thru Preferences. In that window, my patterns appeared in the order I had them: I could add them, rename them, delete them, or move them higher or lower in my menu. Now — as far as I can tell — there's no way of doing some of that: Manage Patterns appears as a line in that menu, and opens a window in which I can only add, delete, or rename: I can't move them in the menu. (Over time, some patterns become more important, or less important, to me: why shouldn't I be able to move them up or down in the menu?) The patterns do not appear in the order in which I have them, but in alphabetical order. [I just tried, by the way, to circumvent not being able to move the patterns in the menu — a pattern I'd named variant. . ., I want it at the top these days — OK I'll rename it AAA variant: to my surprise, BBEdit crashed.] In the Find Patterns menu — mine has 133 patterns in it (just counted) — the Save line used to be at the top. Now, idiotically, it's at the bottom: forcing me to scroll all the way down the list just to save a pattern. ▸At least put it back at the top! In sum, a lot of good features have been thrown over; I can't see why, either. Please restore them! (Don't get me started on those horrible document drawers, which global searches sometimes wind up creating.) ★★★ Finally, not bugs or disimprovements, but friendly suggestions for continued improvements (after the vs. 10 stuff I mentioned has been undone): ▸It would be nice to add a Save Pattern button directly on the Find Window: why should I have to open the Find Pattern list and scroll to a menu line to do this? This is surely one of the commonest things people do? ▸It would be nice if Find Pattern submenus were available: so that those of us with long sets of find patterns could group them, and navigate to individual patterns faster and more logically. (Some of my patterns deal with stuff I do to document on one part of my site but not the others; some are manipulations of polytonic Greek — checks for example that there are no unaccented words other than enclitics, etc.) Thanks in advance for considering these improvements — BT -- 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
Re: changes to Find
▸I on the other hand like [the two separate Find windows] a lot (and it's not changed from v. 9.x). I'm getting used to it, and it's not critical (oh, and sharp eye! I jumped from 8.6). ▸▸In the Find window, I used to be able to specify Case Sensitive. . . ▸No it's not - the key commands have changed - see the manual or a post from BB folk on this list about a week ago. Hearty thanks! and very good to hear. Missed that somehow, tsk‑tsk. ▸▸I used to be able to manage my Find Patterns, from a very handy window reached thru Preferences. ▸That's now handled under BBdit - Setup. I didn’t know about that. On the other hand, it still displays them in alphabetical order and doesn't seem to let me move the Find Patterns and put them in the order I want, which was my big beef. In sum it's the same window I get from the Find window: and in fact if I open Set Up, then go to the Find window and open the other, I have one set-up window open, not two. ▸Did you send you message to Support? No, I didn’t. It seems more of a bug than anything I need support with. BT -- 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
Re: changes to Find
The Live Find also worked so that when I found the instance I was looking for I could just type over it, or arrow my way to what I wanted from there. No more! Now, I have to press Tab; to continue with the Live Find, I then have to go back to the Live Find box etc. Not sure what you're saying here. To alternate the two kinds of search I now have to go thru extra steps. Live Search. Slap the Escape key. If you want to find again hit Cmd-E and then Cmd-G. Yes, of course. I use the live find to get me very quickly to a particular place in my document, from where I may make a real search; usually not. It should be coming up preselected like it always did, so you can just type over the old search string. I'm forgetting the old one already! Maybe it did. The two separate Find windows don't make much sense; all the more so that if you change one, the other is changed as well. (The two separate windows might make some sense if they allowed us to have one search in a document, the other over a set of document. Even then, not much.) What two separate *windows*? The single-document Find window and the multiple-document Find window. ▸Now, idiotically, it's at the bottom: Calling the developers idiots is not likely to motivate them to change anything. Quite right, and I didn’t. -- 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
Re: changes to Find
Oh, and Option-Down-Arrow — I replied too fast — is very nice, thank you!! B -- 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
Open File by Name
I just downloaded 10.0, free update from my 9.0 bought within the right time period. On opening 10.0 immediately after the download, I find that Open FIle by Name no longer works, returning This operation couldn't be completed, because an error occurred. Directory not found (MacOS Error code: -120). I moved nothing, the directories are there, with the files in them (as evidenced by opening the files in question thru the menus). I did not change the BASE HREF of the document containing the URL, etc. (I changed nothing at all, in sum.) This looks very much like a bug. -- 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
should have been Open Selection
Misled by what the menu showed while composing previous query, it's in fact (when a valid URL is selected within a file) Open Selection that doesn't work. Add to my previous note, my base site is correctly referenced in Setup:Sites (Local site root) — as it was before. Again, I changed absolutely nothing between the time I quit BBEdit 9 and opened BBEdit 10, the space of a coupla minutes; and am in the same documents as I was before. *None* of my URLs now open their documents, they all did before. BT -- 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
Re: porting spelling dictionary from BBEdit 8 to BBEdit 9.6
Thank you Chris. That will give me a lot to chew on. I was using the Apple-wide dictionary (since my additions were acceptable in programs other than BBEdit), thank goodness — didn't even know the old BBEdit had its own; and did find the old and new files. I just can't seem to port the old one and rename it in such a way that it takes. I do use TypeIt, extensively — using it right now — but of course that doesn't check that what I type in it is in fact considered a word (like Agathon, Umbertide, etc.), Thank goodness I do have access to Terminal. I'll poke around based on your input, and when it works, I'll get back here and write a second thank-you note. Kind regards Bill LacusCurtius http://tinyurl.com/Curtius -- 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
Re: porting spelling dictionary from BBEdit 8 to BBEdit 9.6
Scope out the AutoCorrect Tab of the TypeIt4Me prefs. Problem isn't that I mistype tons of stuff requiring correction; but rather that the stuff that I type has a lot of non-standard stuff in it: basic text may be in English but full of citations in various other languages, and lots of unusual proper names. I keep all autocorrects firmly turned off. I want these things permanently whitelisted, so that when I run my final spellcheck — before I actually proofread — it doesn't ask me to correct solus to souls, difficultés to difficulties, and Quds and Cyzicene to Lord-knows-what. . . . The simple thing would be to port LocalDictionary to the new system. I've found both the old and the new, but it's apparently not as simple as replacing the new (empty) one by the old one with my 94,000 whitelisted words, even changing the delimiters. As I said, I'll poke thru your suggestions. B -- 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
porting spelling dictionary from BBEdit 8 to BBEdit 9.6
I used BBEdit 8 for several years; now I have a new Mac and am using 9.6. I added to my spelling dictionary some 94,000 words; I haven't figured out, nor seen online, how to port it over to the new BBEdit. I've found both the old and the new and looked at them, and tried copying one to the other with a global-replace of the delimiters, but that didn't work. What should I be doing? Really grateful, in advance, to anyone who can guide me. Bill -- 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
