Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Steve deRosier
On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 6:02 AM Cerulean wrote: > > I am just curious why someone may decide to choose BBEdit over other > programs, what draws does it have that others don't? > > Thanks for your answers! > The biggest reason I've used it and stuck with it for nearly 20 years is it is

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Allen Watson
For me, one key feature is the robust support for regular expression search and replace. I have dozens of saved patterns I use regularly, and two AppleScripts that I’ve incorporated with regular expression searches that I simply could not live without. > On Nov 27, 2018, at 6:20 AM, Kyle

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Gauvins
:) I mean that bbedit is great on many many counts. There are numerous features that I could not live without. Color scheme and run modes are cool but there is much more. Great app -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support,

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Gerald Davenport
OOPS: should be: Others apps might compare *in* features (not is) On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 8:59 AM Gerald Davenport wrote: > Hey Cerulean, and any other reading this months or years later, > > As I was writing, Blinde's message popped up. How the heck did blinde see > what I was writing? > >

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Gerald Davenport
Hey Cerulean, and any other reading this months or years later, As I was writing, Blinde's message popped up. How the heck did blinde see what I was writing? Everything Blinde wrote, other than tennis and the view, mine is a mountainous forest, is very similar to my history and feelings about

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread blinde
i'm a web developer, building sites with php and mysql (for the most part). although i don't use all of bbedit's functionality it's the ultimate power tool for what i (and apparently many others) do. the developers have always been incredibly responsive, supportive, proactive and consistently

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Christopher Stone
On 11/26/2018, at 18:59, Cerulean mailto:ceruleanf...@gmail.com>> wrote: > I am just curious why someone may decide to choose BBEdit over other > programs, what draws does it have that others don't? Hey Cerulean, It's a solid editor with a large tool-set, and it's probably the most

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Vlad Ghitulescu
On 27 Nov 2018, at 1:59, Cerulean wrote: I am just curious why someone may decide to choose BBEdit over other programs, what draws does it have that others don't? - this group. I've put once a question in the official Sublime Text group. I've got an answer a good couple of months after it.

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Christopher Stone
On 11/27/2018, at 08:15, Gauvins mailto:gauvi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Wrt to critical features... The ability to run Python in the terminal and > color schemes come to mind, but it mischaracterizes my appreciation. Hey Gauvins, Huh? That's very vague. Please be more specific. -- Best

Re: Assign shortcut to ctrl-Move to New Window?

2018-11-27 Thread Christopher Stone
On 11/20/2018, at 21:20, Gauvins mailto:gauvi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > thanks. probably too obvious for my aging brain... :/ Hey Gauvins, When looking for commands in Mac apps always try the search field in the Help Menu. It will find any menu item whether or not it is active. As of v12.5

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Luis Speciale
Le 27/11/2018 à 01:59, Cerulean a écrit : I am just curious why someone may decide to choose BBEdit over other programs, what draws does it have that others don't? I can only give a subjective answer, because I never go far comparing it with others (time to re adapt, laziness). I surprise

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Jan Erik Moström
On 27 Nov 2018, at 1:59, Cerulean wrote: what draws does it have that others don't? It works, it has a "solid feel" to it, it does everything I need (mostly the way I want to do it), great support, when I want to do something new it's usually already implemented and "it still doesn't suck"

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Kyle DeMilo
I love the Project view, it keeps my text docs organized. I'm not even a programmer. On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 9:02 AM Cerulean wrote: > I am just curious why someone may decide to choose BBEdit over other > programs, what draws does it have that others don't? > > Thanks for your answers! > > --

What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Gauvins
Was using textwrangler (now deprecated I believe)) and wanted some of the more advanced features offered by bbedit. Wrt to critical features... The ability to run Python in the terminal and color schemes come to mind, but it mischaracterizes my appreciation. -- This is the BBEdit Talk

What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

2018-11-27 Thread Cerulean
I am just curious why someone may decide to choose BBEdit over other programs, what draws does it have that others don't? Thanks for your answers! -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com"

Re: Command-arrow in the open dialogue

2018-11-27 Thread Tibor
So, I found the reason, and it is not related to BBEdit (got the same behaviour with Preview and other apps): If a folder is an iCloud folder that has not yet been downloaded to the local machine then applications try to open all documents in that folder when you double click on it or use