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when one tool is not enough - why i use different writing apps for different tasks

@robpike This is one reason I prefer @bbedit on #macOS. It handles massive files with aplomb.

@SimonRoyHughes BBEdit opens most any file #BBEdit https://barebones.com/

Ashamed to say, this experiment has not gone very well so far. While #BBEdit seems very nice for working with Svelte, I'm running into issues with React (for my volunteer gig) and Astro (for my personal website).

I'm much happier with it for writing Swift however, and would happily make the switch if I could just find a JSX language module.

My challenge to myself this week is to do all my development work in #BBEdit.

Anyway, tonight I got the various LSPs I use all configured. I've started tinkering with keybindings to be closer to my VSCode/Zed preferences but I guess I can't use "option" as the sole modifier key for any key combos???

#webdev #typescript

@eemeli well. My trusted #BBedit can use and produce them. Of course, so far, it is only because it is more than 30 y old or because I programmed it wrong (not sure which is note common).

But claiming it does not exist is as much utterly modern as claiming that people never had problems with character sets using emails...

Maybe... It depends on your world of all possibilities?

Or like a #BBEdit for iPadOS/iOS.

#xcode #Apple Did you know that ⌃(control)A jumps you to the beginning of a line and ⌃E puts you at the end of the line. ⌃K deletes the line forward and ⌃Y pastes it back.

AND all of these work in #xcode, #pages, #bbedit, #textedit, #ivory, #AppleMail, and probably elsewhere.

Il y a un truc que j'adore avec l'application #BBEdit, c'est que, lorsqu'on veut encadrer un groupe de caractères/mots par des parenthèses, crochets, guillemets ou autres signes du même genre, il suffit de sélectionner ce qu'on veut encadrer, taper sur le caractère d'ouverture, et par défaut, ça ajoute le caractère de fermeture automatiquement, et ce de part et d'autre de la sélection. Du coup, quand je suis dans une autre application, par réflexe, je fais pareil, sauf que... ben, ça efface ma sélection. Et ça m'énerve d'une force !!! 😂

@rauschma never tried it myself, but #BBEdit should be very fast when it comes to large files.

@ttscoff It’s gotten so bad that I have a #BBEdit Text Factory just to clean up #AI-generated #Markdown

One of macOS's (many) annoying behaviors is carrying over search terms between apps. So if I'm searching for something in Mail, then search for something in Notes, when I go back to Mail suddenly my previous search has been wiped out and Mail is searching for whatever I was trying to find in Notes, and I have to search Mail again…which screws up my search in Notes. Lather Rinse Repeat Definition of Insanity.

Thankfully, @bbedit is way ahead of me:

defaults write com.barebones.bbedit FindDialog_UsesFindScrap -bool NO

#macos #bbedit

Congratulations to @siegel, creator of the legendary web and text editor BBEdit, on his profile interview in the App Store. #BBEdit #WebDevelopment #WebDesignCommunity #software

Color layout from the Developer section in the App Store. The text begins:

BBEdit may be one of the most beloved developer tools on any platform, but its creator, Rich Siegel, had relatively modest ambitions. He started writing the first version of the software back in 1989 because he needed an editor that could handle "large" files-something north of 32 KB.

"One of the limitations of Macintosh Pascal was that source files couldn't be more than 32 kilobytes," he explains.

Over a quarter century has passed since BBEdit's commercial debut, and the app has become a favorite among developers, scientists, web designers, and writers alike for its sheer power and speed. (Siegel regularly tests 12 GB files these days.)
Siegel remains BBEdit's principal architect and lead engineer, and the caffeine molecule tattooed on his arm says a lot about his work ethic.

We spoke with him from his Bare Bones Software headquarters north of Boston, which Siegel shares with a pair of African gray parrots.

Congratulations to @siegel.bsky.social , creator of legendary web and text editor BBEdit, on his profile interview in the App Store. #WebDevelopment #software #BBedit

@davidgerard @rolenthedeep

#BBEdit has retained more or less the same UI for the better part of — what? — 30 years? It’s brilliant.

Now that iPadOS is officially getting to be super useful, I _need_ #BBEdit on iPad.

I feel the need pressing against me super hard. The existing apps I have found are simply fine. I want something great. Nothing short of BBEdit will do it for me.

I somehow managed to make the #BBEdit software hang...that's a sign of an impending apocalypse right?

I am once again writing my own BBEdit Language Module. #BBEdit

I just noticed: Link to the song Editors at War in the #BBEdit About box is broken. You can still resolve it with the Wayback Machine of #ArchiveOrg: https://web.archive.org/web/20061208154826/http://interrobang.jwgh.org/songs/editors.mp3.

BUT it is probably better to go to https://ibcwiki.spaceroom.org/the/songs, where the song is erroneously referred to as Editors at Work.

Summerfest is on! Many great apps such as #Scrivener, #BBEdit, #EagleFiler, #Bookends, #Nisus Writer Pro, #Trickster and Hookmark are 25% off @eastgate

#bbedit

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