BBEdit, from Rhode Island-based Bare Bones, is a Smile favorite. Here’s why.
Éric says: “I love BBEdit because it’s an editor that’s powerful enough to do serious work and quickly zip through multi-MB files, yet simple and friendly enough to serve as a TextEdit replacement when I just need to jot down a few quick notes.”
Maia adds: “I use BBEdit to update live web pages, and I love how I can open, edit, and save files right on the server. I’ve also been saved by the predictive auto-fill. While I use TextExpander for my most frequently used HTML tags, BBEdit is great for ones I use less often, ones I can’t always remember, or ones which have several variations to choose from.”
Mike continues: “I love BBEdit because it helps me see what I am doing. I can quickly twist down tags to ensure that I am viewing the HTML code that I want to edit. This simple feature has saved me hours of time trying to hunt down a missing tag that resulted in a malformed HTML page.
I have also started to care more about HTML code. I indent and comment now more than I ever have before. I remove extraneous code because I know it is extraneous and it now bothers me to leave it in. When I used WYSIWYG editors, I made changes until the HTML page worked. With BBEdit, I make changes until the HTML page is right.
…and the auto-save document feature has saved me numerous times.”
Philip notes: “I love BBEdit for it’s highly expressive find-replace. Nothing else like it.”
Greg concludes: “I love BBEdit because it’s an awesome all-purpose text editor. Any time I wish I could do something with a text file, I fire up BBEdit and either do it immediately or learn how I can get BBEdit to do it quickly and easily.”
If you do any work with text files, definitely check out BBEdit. It’ll make you smile.
