BBEdit is a high-performance HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.

BBEdit is designed and crafted for the editing, searching, transformation, and manipulation of text.

BBEdit provides an array of general-purpose features which are useful for a wide variety of tasks, and includes many features which have been specifically developed in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers.

Here are some key features of "BBEdit":

· Complete set of HTML Tools - for fast, easy, and correct markup. Supports current standards including HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and 1.1, and WML 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3
· Innovative "Text Factory" feature for automating the application of multiple text transformations across multiple files or folders, without scripting or programming
· Syntax coloring and function navigation for nearly two dozen languages, plus an extensible architecture for adding your own
· Flexible 'grep' style pattern-based search and replace based on PCRE
· Advanced file filtering for multi-file search and replace including filtering based on file contents
· Documents Drawer and Navigation Bar to open multiple documents into a single window, and then switch between them quickly and easily
· Powerful Glossary - store and insert frequently-used text items
· Advanced Unix scripting on Mac OS X with built-in Perl, Python, and shell scripting support
· Enhanced Unicode support - work easily with documents written in multiple languages and text encodings
· Authenticated saves
· Built-in text transformations for text formatting and cleanup
· Integrated access to Perforce, Subversion, and CVS
· Transparently handles DOS/Windows, Unix, and Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) text files
· "bbedit" command-line tool
· Unique "Shell Worksheets" provide Mac OS X Unix power with Macintosh style
· Advanced AppleScript, Perl, and Mac OS X Unix scripting support
· Built-in FTP and SFTP support to manage files on remote servers
· File Groups to work with related files in a project
· Integrated spelling checker
· Integration with Macromedia Dreamweaver
· Automator support

Requirements:

· Automator

Limitations:

· 30 days trial period.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed a bug where the Find Multiple window did not honor color preferences for grep search/replace strings.
· Fixed regression in which the End key didn't jump to the end of files with more than (32K-1) lines.
· Resetting language specific preferences also resets the general settings.
· "Recent Items" shows up in the preferences search drawer.
· Fixed the formatting of the --maketags line in the output of bbedit --help.
· Fixed a bug where we would install a new bbedit tool in /usr/bin, instead of upgrading one in an alternate location.
· Fixed bug in which dragging text into one of the fields of the Find (or Multi-File Search) window would cause the other field to reset to the previous global state of the Find settings.
· Only initialize ASL for debug builds (this eliminates the console logging of all BAS interactions).
· man pages are installed in /usr/local/share/man/man1/ if the bbedit tool is located in a directory which contains the path segment "/local/".
· Before performing any authenticated operations, BBEdit ensures that the auth helper tool is current.
· Adjusted the authentication prompt string when installing the auth helper tool on 10.6 and later.
· Using the font panel to change a document's font/size/tab width will now dirty the document's state.
· Deleted a stray line from the CSS keyword list.
· Fixed a bug in which expanding a project collection which contained expanded folders would duplicate the folders' contents.
· Fixed regression in which "Move to Trash" for an item on a server volume would report a -120 error instead of asking you to delete the item immediately.
· results windows created through the scripting interface no longer get created with a prefs key, to avoid filling the prefs with settings for arbitrarily named windows.
· Fixed bug in which windows with custom names (as set by the scripting interface) didn't have those custom names restored when restarting after an application sleep.
· Fixed bug in which an auto-saved document's line break setting was not restored correctly when reloading it.
· Fixed disk browser bug in which safe-saving the file behind the displayed document from another application would cause the display to be cleared and reset to "No Editor".
· Fixed #base_url# placeholder not expanded.
· Fixed suspected cause of a crash while resolving script object accesses to the Find window.
· Fixed terminology error that made it difficult to access the Find or Multi-File Search windows via the scripting interface.
· "Replace" and "Replace & Find Next" now update the search history.
· Some per-language overrides were not applied when a document was reopened. Fixed.
· Some per-language overrides were not applied when a document's language was changed (when saving, or choosing the language from the menu).
· Fixed crash which would occur when trying to use Check Links from the scripting interface.
· http/https URL items in a project now use the generic Internet location icon instead of the Safari (or default browser) application icon.
· Fixed regression in which you couldn't open an http/https URL from the project list.
· Dragging host-only URLs to a project list no longer creates a project item with an empty name; the whole URL is used as the name.
· Fixed bug in which trivial FTP/sftp URLs in a project list were allowed to open with a single click.
· "Save a Copy" for the Scratchpad now honors the global line break preference, rather than always saving with CR line breaks.
· Fixed a regression where the wrong template was restored when invoking the New HTML Document command.
· Returned tooltips to the Open Recent menu.
· If the remote server drops the SFTP connection (or it's broken for some other undetermined reason), the FTP browser or dialog will now alert you and invite you to reconnect.
· Eliminated unnecessary computation, resulting in a 2x speedup when opening a large, soft-wrapped document.
· Fixed crash which would occur when dragging items around in or into a project list.
· Keyboard focus is now forced to the file listing when an FTP browser window gets created.
· The warning shown when trying to close a results browser with items removed is no longer shown if you've deleted all the items.
· Fixed bug in which printing a document without making any changes to its print settings would disconnect it from the preferences, so future preferences changes would have no effect on the document's print settings until the document had been closed and reopened.
· Fixed bug in which changes to the default text printing font preference didn't stick.
· Gruber's [REDACTED] "url-like" links are recognized and launched.
· Fixed a hang in the YAML language module which would occur if you typed a '%' at the head of the file.
· When opening a file located on a remote (file, NOT ftp/sftp) server, BBEdit will now listen to the document's parent folder for changes, rather than the document's file. This resolves a -61 error reported when attempting to save a file that had been opened from an AFP server by client on two different computers.
· Fixed bug in which the listing in the FTP Browser/save dialog would not correctly scroll to the top of the list when displaying items not returned in something close to alphabetical order by the server.
· Fixed bug in which "Save to FTP/SFTP Server" would report a -1728 error if the front FTP browser window was not connected to a server (and never had been).
· It is now possible to scroll (horizontally) to the end of a line that's more than 65536 pixels long.
· Fixed crash which would occur when reading certain gzip files.
· Made changes to reduce the file system overhead involved in opening a document.
· If a file is pure ASCII, it is now read using the default encoding for new documents, rather than allowing the fallback mechanics to take effect. In practice with factory default prefs, this means that pure ASCII documents will load as UTF-8 (no BOM), which is preferable to the previous behavior (reading them as Mac Roman).
· Fixed bug in which hard wrapping a paragraph would cause the text view to scroll inappropriately.
· Fixed crash which would occur if events ended up dispatched to a window which was in the process of being closed. (This tended to be irregular and hard to reproduce for some, not so much for others.)
· When manually showing or hiding the Dock, BBEdit no longer resizes any windows, even if they would overlap the dock. (This is consistent with the standard application behavior.)
· Fixed bug which prevented Disk Browser windows remembered by a Sleep from being reopened when starting back up.
· Fixed bug in BBEdit wouldn't come to the front when opening files from an FTP browser by click-through.
· Adjusted the file filtering for folder comparisons so that files which cannot be compared are still allowed to appear in the lists of results if "Text Files Only" is turned off.
· Fixed a bug in which unmounting the volume containing one or more files that referred to by a project would cause an error to be reported when trying to close the project (and the project would become uncloseable).
· Fixed a bug in which supplying UTF-8 data from a text view to a drag receiver would fail.
· Worked around a crash in ClearDeadKeyInlineSession where AppKit inappropriately handled a TSM event destined for one of BBEdit's TSM documents.
· Fixed a bug in the command line tool where open/print errors returned from BBEdit weren't reported to the user.
· PHP here-doc opening tags are now allowed to contribute tokens for text completion.
· When calculating completions in a case-insensitive language document, we no longer allow any built-in symbols (keywords or predefined names) to override tokens found by examining the document, unless the case is an exact match.
· Application state saves (for sleep and autorecovery) now include the drawer state (open or closed) and the drawer width.
· Fixed bug in which Hard Wrap using "Page Guide" as the limit would calculate line break points incorrectly.
· Restored the ability of shell worksheets to ssh.
· Fixed bug in which some commands in the disk browser's action menu were enabled inappropriately after the volume under the disk browser had been ejected.
· Fixed bug in which application state (or sleep state) would fail to save if it included a disk browser whose backing disk had been ejected.
· Long path names now extend to the width of the list in the Multi-File Search window, rather than being cut off at 64 characters.
· Fixed bug in which deleting remembered items from the source list in the modal Find dialog or the Text Factory run window would fail to remove the item from the appropriate recent items list.
· Fixed bug in generation of summary text in the modal Find dialog when "Exclude Matches" was turned on.
· Fixed a bug in which opening a file from an FTP/SFTP browser didn't correctly use the browser's connection to the server. This would occasionally cause problems with servers running Pure-FTPd whose admins blindly followed the example in the server software's man page, and started the server with "-C 2" to limit client connections to two per IP address.
· Fixed a bug where choosing "Learn Spelling" or "Ignore Spelling" left the spelling ranges in a state where they could not subsequently be updated.
· Fixed bug in which invisibles placeholders drawn with "Show Invisibles" and "Show Spaces" active were drawn in the wrong font, which would in turn cause misaligned columns.
· Fixed bug in which Shell Worksheet documents were not properly restored from saved application state (including a Sleep).
· Fixed a problem where Preview didn't work correctly with Opera 10.
· (Opera changed their versioning system in such a way that broke the version check in the Preview code for whether to send a POSIX or HFS style file URL to the browser. BBEdit always sends POSIX style file URLs to Opera now. Opera versions prior to 7.0 are no longer supported by the Preview tool.)
· Fixed bug in which "Change Text Factory" and "Change Line Endings" actions in a factory applied by using "Apply Text Factory" on the front document did not have any effect.
· Fixed bug in which language-specific text wrap preferences were not applied when opening an existing document.
· Update the recent menu on inspection events so that it isn't blank when accessed by spotlight for menus.
· When doing a "Use Selection for Find" (with grep turned off), we now escape literal CR, LF, TAB, and FF in the selected text.
· BBEdit prefers public.utf8-plain-text to the UTF-16 based variants when reading data from the pasteboard or placing text via drag-and-drop.
· This is the native type provided by Cocoa applications. By using it in preference to the UTF-16 variants we avoid getting a translated version of the rich text data which is also on the pasteboard. In certain situations, this can result in data which differs by more than just the encoding. (For example, when copying from Safari, WebKit places non-breaking space translated plain-text on the pasteboard, and tab-delimited data for any selected tables. But the translation of the rich text data results in something quite different.)
· Fixed bug in which un-splitting an editing view would cause non-US text entry to fail, if the bottom pane had focus before the view was un-split.
· Removed the hard-wired limit on the number of items representable in a menu that is backed by a folder (Scripts, Stationery, Text Factories, Unix scripts/filters).
· Fixed bug in which tags in XML (vs. HTML) were incorrectly treated as CSS.
· Fixed a bug which caused the Xcode projects Search Source node to be empty on 10.6.
· Fixed broken wording for tool installer authorization when running on OS versions prior to 10.6.
· bbedit --maketags now validates that the paths you passed exist and are directories and reports an error if they are not (rather than building a tags file for a filesystem tree you didn't intend to process.)
· Fixed bug in which the "Text Files Only" setting in the Open dialog incorrectly disabled folders.
· Fixed crash which would occur when dropping folder items in a project list on to themselves, i.e. selecting one or more items, dragging just enough to generate a highlight but not far enough to actually move anywhere, and then dropping.
· Fixed bug in which tarball files weren't correctly handled by "Open with Finder" (and friends) from the contextual menu in disk browsers.
· Corrected passive FTP expert prefs in help.
· Fixed crash which would occur when trying to do a scripted format operation with no HTML source profile specified in the preferences.
· Fixed bug in which opening files with non-ASCII names from the disk browser would fail.
· Fixed crash which would occur randomly at some point after bringing up the Multi-File Search window.
· Fixed bug in the C/C++ scanner in which it would crash instead of bailing when encountering excessively nested parens and/or braces. This typically happened when setting the default language to C++ or similar and then opening files which were most assuredly not.
· Marked additional columns in the source control dialogs as sortable.
· Fixed bug in which the shell worksheet padlock (to authenticate and perform privileged operations) didn't work in 10.6 (it always reported "Sorry, you entered an invalid password").
· Fixed bug in which packaged script applications (as created by the Script Editor on 10.6) were not recognized as AppleScripts; this caused invocation from the clippings system (and other contexts, like the HTML document/site updater) to fail when they should not have.
· Fixed bug in which changes to a tags file in a given source file's hierarchy did not correctly trigger recoloring of the source file when they should have.
· Fixed a bug which caused split windows to draw the top pane as if it were scrolled to the top if a replace all was performed in the bottom pane (the scrollbar was actually left in the correct position, but the content was incorrect).
· Fixed bug in which the "Input is XML" option to the Tidy Reflow text factory operation was not passed to the operation, resulting in incorrect output.
· Added fix for the documents drawer not updating after a Save All.
· Added SUHelpAnchor keys to BBEdit/TextWrangler's plist, and created help pages for the software update checker dialog.
· Fixed bug in which closing a document and requesting a save to an explicit location would ignore the save location and prompt. This construction now works correctly: tell application "BBEdit" to close text document 1 saving yes saving in file "Boom Box:Users:siegel:Desktop:text.txt"
· Fixed bug in which using Save As to change the encoding or line break type of an unmodified document (by saving over itself) wouldn't work.
· Made changes so that automatic saving of application state only takes place when something has changed.
· Fixed a bug which caused updates to man pages to succeed, but new installs of man pages to fail.
· Fixed bug in which identifier names containing language keywords would confuse the Pascal parser and cause it to generate wacky fold points for procedures and functions.
· Fixed bug in which "New Text Document" and "New Folder" were incorrectly enabled when a collection item was selected; and choosing either command would report an error.
· Corrected capitalization of control titles in the Text Printing section of the print dialog.
· When doing an Open Counterpart, BBEdit first checks to see if the document in which you're working is in the active Xcode project, before asking Xcode for the counterparts. In this way, we avoid opening inappropriate counterparts when the file happens to have the same name as one in the project.
· Adjusted the behavior of Open Selection/Open File by Name to match that of Open Counterpart: if the front document exists on disk and is not in the active Xcode project, we don't ask Xcode for anything, to avoid possibly opening the wrong file with the same name.
· Fixed bug in which changing a document's language would not cause the associated preview window to refresh when it should have.
· Fixed bug in which some commands were inappropriately enabled for the editing fields in the Find and Multi-File Search windows.
· Fixed bug in which closing a multi-document window in which at least one of the documents had been opened from an FTP/SFTP server would cause an attempt to save those documents back to the server, even if they hadn't been modified.
· Changed wording of the alert which appears when you try "Move to Trash" on an item and no trash folder is available.
· Fixed a crash in the Java function scanner which would occur when encountering a package class.
· Fixed a bug which prevented the installation of an updated Application Support folder.
· updated bbdiff/twdiff man pages to reflect the positional significance of the file arguments.
· Fixed bug in the scripting object model for project documents which made it impossible to address items nested more than one level deep.
· Fixed hang in the YAML tokenizer which would occur when encountering a block string start character in some contexts.
· Fixed bug in which executable files with a shebang line were not correctly recognized as text files when working in project lists.
· Fixed authorization dialog wording.
· Fixed bug in which "Save Default Window" was not enabled for FTP browsers as it should have been.
· Fixed crash which would occur when closing the Multi-File Search window with certain search sources selected.