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BBEdit for Mac is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh.

Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides an abundance of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text.

An 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, macOS Unix scripting support, text and code completion, and of course a complete set of robust HTML markup tools.

Features and Highlights

Text Factories
Text Factories increase your productivity by making it possible to quickly and easily apply as many of BBEdit’s powerful arsenal of tools as you need to achieve your goals across multiple files and folders, with just the single initial setup required. As a bonus, text factories operate in the background, allowing you to use the app for other work while they’re running, and take full advantage of machines with multiple processors.

Codeless Language Modules
Codeless language modules make it much easier to extend BBEdit’s built-in syntax coloring and function navigation. The basic syntax and coloring rules for programming languages can be represented by a relatively simple text file, without requiring programming or advanced logic.

Terminal Integration
Invoke BBEdit from the command line and pass the results to a document. For example, the ps (process status) command can generate some extremely long lines. Here, we are telling ps to give complete details and to put the result into a new document and to scroll the window to the top of the document. (The document behind the Terminal window is a BBEdit document.)

Organize your projects
You can also add files from anywhere (on disk, or from FTP/SFTP) to a BBEdit Project (and save the Project for reuse). While the Disk Browser and FTP/SFTP Browser windows show you the structure of your volumes, the app Projects let you easily access related files without them having to be located together.

Automator Support
BBEdit for macOS includes a set of Automator actions that mirrors its internal text transformations; most of what is on the Text menu is available to Automator, as well as a “Replace All” action for search and replace; and a few supporting actions to smooth the process of getting text into and out of open the tool documents. No scripting required!

Improved syntax coloring
The internal syntax coloring mechanics have been extensively reworked, allowing for a much greater selection of core color types, and now allowing language modules to add their own color types. Support for color schemes has been expanded, and several factory color schemes are included.

New Clippings system mechanics
The Clippings system (used for creating, managing, and applying frequently used "snippets" of text) is now even more powerful and flexible. Any clipping set can be made available universally or on a per-language basis (for any desired set of languages). The Clippings palette, text completion system, and the "Insert Clipping" command have been extended to support this additional flexibility.

New UI for Find Differences
The "Find Differences" dialog box has been modernized, and folder comparisons are faster than ever, thanks to a rewritten and newly performance-tuned comparison engine. The most significant changes are in the results interface, however: an all-new single window presentation is much easier to use for folder comparisons, is easier to manage, and (for folder comparisons) provides the ability to copy files as needed from one folder to another.

How to Use
  • Install and launch BBEdit on your Mac
  • Open or create a new text or code file
  • Use syntax highlighting for supported languages
  • Search and replace with advanced grep tools
  • Use projects to organize multiple files
  • Preview HTML files in the built-in browser
  • Access scripts and automation via AppleScript
  • Customize settings and preferences to your needs
  • Save and export your work as needed
System Requirements

macOS 10.15.4 or later (Catalina and up)

Intel or Apple Silicon Mac

50MB of available disk space

Internet connection for updates

Administrator privileges for installation

PROS
  • Fast performance with large files
  • Powerful search and replace tools
  • Supports many programming languages
  • Highly customizable interface
  • Reliable and stable for daily use
CONS
  • No built-in terminal support
  • Lacks Git integration features
  • Interface may feel outdated
  • Free version has feature limits
  • No Windows or Linux version
Note: 30 days trial version.

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What's new in this version:

Fixed:
- Fixed a bug in which externally opening a disk-based project which was already open would select its project settings pane
- Fixed bug in which password prompts from sudo and ssh in shell worksheets were not being handled by the application as they should have been
- Allow hours and days in the Unix script progress window, for scripts that take that long to run
- Fixed bug in which the file panel presented by the “Run Unix Filter” text factory configuration panel was a little too aggressive in filtering things
- Improved the experience when editing Markdown files which are used as input for various content systems such as Jekyll which use custom attributes to signal Markdown content inside of div and other blocks
- Fixed regression in which a partial line selection was inappropriately used for determining the range of text to be processed for line-oriented transformations (such as Process Lines Containing). This usually resulted in no work being done
- Fixed a regression in codeless language module scanning which would cause a hang or crash in some cases
- Improved recognition of DSL-style Perl function declarations, as used by Dancer2
- Corrected navigation and selection behavior when using Visual (Line) mode with vi key bindings enabled
- Fixed reporting when the W3C validator service returns HTTP status 503 (“service unavailable”)
- Made a change to prevent a crash which could occur during system theme switching (light mode to dark)
- Fixed bug in which fold ranges for parameterless math environments in TeX files weren’t correct unless the opening delimiter was followed with a space
- Updated stale content in the What’s New page in the help book
- Adjusted links to “Editors at War”
- Fixed deadlock which would occur when a remote SFTP server unexpectedly closed down the connection unilaterally
- Fixed a layout glitch in which expanding and collapsing the site settings view in a project window would reshape the window
- Fixed bug in which projects included in a multi-file search didn’t search any image files referenced by the project
- Fixed cases in which sidebar search in notebooks would sometimes fail to find notes that matched the search words
- Made a change to only use the W3C validator (by default) when the document’s DOCTYPE declaration signals HTML5, and not for older HTML document types
- Corrected the behavior of “G” when used as an operation modifier in vi command mode
- Corrected repeat-operator behavior in vi emulation
- Corrected off-by-one stacking placement when creating new windows
- Fixed keyboard input mapping issue when a DefaultKeyBinding.dict file is in use with equivalents specifying numeric keypad keys
- Corrected vi visual/operator G selection endpoint calculation
- Corrected link to the W3C checker help on the web site
- Fixed bug in which opening a single file from an FTP browser window would sometimes open it again in cases where the corresponding document was already open
- Made a change so that commands sent in shell worksheets no longer appear in the shell’s own global history
- If a service error is returned by the W3C validator during a batch check (folder/site), the error is logged into the results rather than being allowed to interrupt the batch operation
- Fixed bug in which FTP/SFTP client connections weren’t correctly being reused, leading to unnecessary reauthentication (which was generally invisible but would become a nuisance when 2FA was in use)
- Made a change to fix reported symptoms in which the App Store subscription status was not presented correctly at startup
- Fixed bug in which changing W3C validator settings in the HTML-specific language preferences didn’t affect the behavior as intended
- Fixed bug in which the application would incorrectly determine the download file size of a remote SFTP file, sometimes leading to unexpected results if the file had been changed on the server in between the local determination of the file size and the actual download
- Made changes to improve handling of W3C validator rate limits, which show up as HTTP 503 (“service unavailable”) errors during batch checks
- Fixed performance bug in “Check Site Links”
- File name case warnings when checking links include the actual name of the file on disk
- Corrected cosmetic behavior of indeterminate progress bars in application-modal progress dialogs

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