![]() Anyone who claims to have been using BBEdit “ever since 1.0” is either (a) lying (b) delusional or (c) listed somewhere in the BBEdit About box. (“2.1” version number notwithstanding, BBEdit 2.1 was the first public release of BBEdit. That’s a shame, because all things considered, the world was a better place when there was a free version of BBEdit available for anyone to use. Support for Perl and Unix shell scripting.įile filters for multi-file search-and-replace.Īnd so today is the first day since BBEdit 2.1 shipped in April 1992 that there is not a free version of BBEdit available. Major features from BBEdit missing in TextWrangler:ĪppleScript support TextWrangler has no scripting dictionary. What Project Builder is not is a decent editor for Perl or Python. Plus, while it’s great that Project Builder 2.1 finally supports external editors, the fact remains that Project Builder is a decent and free editor for C and friends. It would seem to me that way more people program using scripting languages like Perl and Python than in the C family of languages. TextWrangler has no built-in support for syntax coloring in any other languages, and nor does it accept third-party BBEdit language modules. TextWrangler can serve as an external editor for Project Builder 2.1 or later, and offers syntax coloring for C, C++, and Objective-C. Perl-compatible regular expression syntax (using PCRE). (But in a dialog box, not inline like Mac OS X’s system spelling checker.) (But not SFTP, which BBEdit doesn’t support either.)Ī built-in spelling checker. (BBEdit itself didn’t support non-Mac-Roman single-byte text encodings until last week’s 7.0.2 update.) This means TextWrangler can read and write Windows-encoded text files, for example.īuilt-in FTP support. Support for Unicode and text encodings other than Mac Roman. Just open, edit, and save TextWrangler will present you with a dialog in which to authenticate. ![]() Much, much nicer (and safer) than using the “sudo” command in Terminal. This means if you have administrator privileges, TextWrangler will allow you to edit and save files which aren’t owned by you. Some features in TextWrangler that were not in BBEdit Lite:Īuthenticated Saving on Mac OS X. If only use BBEdit Lite, it’s worth a look. In short, if you already own BBEdit, you’re not missing anything. It offers more features than BBEdit Lite did but many fewer than BBEdit. (TextWrangler’s creator code is a nice in-joke: “ !Rch” i.e. TextWrangler is clearly derived from BBEdit, but its name creates the impression that it’s something altogether new. TextWrangler is not free it costs $49.īut even though the name “BBEdit Lite” was out of the question, I think it was a mistake not to use the name “BBEdit” in some way. But the name “BBEdit Lite” has been synonymous with “free version of BBEdit” for like 10 years. Effectively, it’s an updated version of BBEdit Lite with a few more features from BBEdit. TextWrangler, despite the new name, is a re-branded sibling to BBEdit.
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