BBEdit is 64-bit and compatible with macOS Catalina.Īn intelligent interface provides easy access to BBEdit’s best-of-class features, including: grep pattern matching search and replace across multiple files project definition tools function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages code folding FTP and SFTP open and save AppleScript and Automator support Unix scripting support text and code completion a complete set of robust HTML tools and more.īBEdit offers a 30-day evaluation period (beginning the first time you use it on your computer), during which its full feature set is available.ĭuring the evaluation period, BBEdit is fully functional.
is the leading professional text, code, and markup editor for the Macintosh.Īs the "go to" tool for web site designers, web application developers, writers, and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text, code, and HTML/XML markup.Īs a replacement for TextWrangler, BBEdit is built by the same developers, using the same award-winning technology, and is identical to TextWrangler in every way you're used to. Sadly, that’s all I can tell you since I don’t do code (or Windows™). One last thing: I understand BBEdit is also a fabulous tool for programmers. If you need powerful GREP searches and much more in a text editor, you’ll love BBEdit 13.
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30-Day Free Trial With a Twistĭon’t take my word for it. There’s much more to like in BBEdit 13, but the new GREP Cheat Sheet and Pattern Playground knocked my socks off.
The second cool new thing is an interactive GREP Pattern Playground, which makes it easier to fine-tune your GREP search or replace patterns without affecting the underlying document. The GREP Cheat Sheet (foreground) and Pattern Playground (background) make powerful GREP searches easier than ever before.Ĭlick the appropriate command in the list-which includes options for finding only capital letters lowercase letters numbers from 0-9 any digit characters repeated X number of times, characters at the beginning (or end) of a line (or a word), and many others-and the correct command magically appears in the Find or Replace field. Click it and a list of common GREP commands appears with examples and a description. The first is a GREP Cheat Sheet button in the Find (and Replace) dialogs. But BBEdit 13 adds two new features that make using GREP almost as easy as using Search & Replace in other apps. In the past, I would have to search the web for the proper GREP syntax and then fine-tune it by trial-and-error. In English that would read: “Find every Space character repeated one or more times and replace it with one Tab character.” Word processors (and Ulysses) offer no easy way to search for multiple spaces in a row and replace them in BBEdit, I just type a space followed by a + (“ +”) for the Search pattern and “/t” for the Replace pattern. For example, I often need to change a bunch of consecutive spaces to a single Tab character. Ulysses offers a decent enough search and replace function, but when things get complicated, I turn to BBEdit and craft a GREP query. (GREP stands for G lobally search a Regular Expression and Print, or Global Regular Expression Parser, depending upon who you ask.) For example, BBEdit has included powerful GREP searches for as long as I can remember.
Why? Well, while Ulysses is great at letting me compose text, it’s not really designed for sophisticated text manipulation and searches. And while I love Ulysses and use it regularly, I still use BBEdit almost as often. use a word processor or page layout program) after I’ve finished most of the writing and rewriting. I’ve told you before that I prefer to write in plain text and only apply formatting (i.e. Bare Bones Software’s venerable Mac text editor, BBEdit, has been under constant development since 1992 and just keeps getting better and better, with the latest release, BBEdit 13, adding several extremely useful new features.