Bare Bones Software today announced the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 10.0, a major new version of the professional strength HTML and text editor for the Mac.
BBEdit 10 introduces new project and document editing windows, an all-new HTML Markup panel and palette, and integrated support for working directly with documents stored in Zip archives. In addition, BBEdit 10 introduces switchable syntax color schemes, seamless preservation of open documents on relaunch, and support for using Dropbox to share application configuration and setup data. BBEdit 10 also includes a completely re-imagined Preferences window, along with significant performance and user interface enhancements.
“We have a long and distinguished history of delivering dramatic upgrades to BBEdit, and version 10 is no exception,” said Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software, Inc., in the press release “Everything in this new version is designed to improve the working life of the professionals — including web authors, software developers, scientists, system admins, and writers — that rely on BBEdit. We leave it to our customers to decide which of the hundred or so additions, changes, and refinements they like the best.”
In BBEdit 10, new project and editing windows now share a unified layout with easy, direct access to both open and recent documents, while projects also now include a dedicated Unix worksheet and scratchpad. The reinvented HTML Tools palette and markup panel allow more flexibility, while “Preview in BBEdit” now supports templates for displaying content from partial documents.
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For EPUB ebook developers, BBEdit 10 now supports editing and saving documents directly within Zip archives, as well as performing multi-file search-and-replace operations and applying text factories to files within Zip archives, all without requiring cumbersome manual de- and recompression.
BBEdit’s new “Text Colors” preference panel now makes it easy to create and switch between different color schemes. Upon quitting, BBEdit 10 now automatically remembers the contents of unsaved documents, and reopens exactly as it was when last quit. For customers who use multiple machines, BBEdit’s application support data can now reside in a Dropbox folder, shared between multiple BBEdit installations.
A completely re-imagined Preferences window permits easy customization, while a new Setup window provides a central location to manage configuration, including FTP/SFTP bookmarks, grep patterns, file filters and web site configurations.
Access to text filters and scripts is now streamlined, plus BBEdit 10 now has the ability to treat AppleScripts, Automator actions, text factories, and Unix scripts as co-equal and all may be used as text filters or run directly as scripts. BBEdit 10 also supports “packages” to simplify adding related configuration items, such as language modules, clippings, and scripts.
Beginning with the release of BBEdit 10.0 on July 19, 2011, the pricing structure for BBEdit has changed.
• The suggested retail price of new single-user licenses of BBEdit 10 is US$49.99. This price is available both from our web store as well as from the Mac App Store.
• The upgrade price for qualified customers of previous commercial versions of BBEdit is US$39.99. More information on upgrade pricing and eligibility is available on the BBEdit Upgrades page.
• A special introductory price of US$39.99 is in effect until October 19, 2011. The introductory price is for new single-user licenses only, and is automatically offered when you make a purchase from our web store as well as from the Mac App Store.
More info and download link for BBEdit 10.0 via Apple’s Mac App Store here.
Source: Bare Bones Software, Inc.
An essential tool for any programmer or anyone who does anything serious with text on a Mac. I can’t wait to see the re-imagined preferences because this program has become so huge that the prefs have become a gnarly mess. BBEdit is bloated like Word, but it has enormous depth. Like most users, I think I use 10% of what it can do, but it is a multipurpose tool that has never let me down, and it gets better with every release.
What advantage does this give vs. just using XCode?
Testing
I looked at getting this before.
Still window shopping….
Some day i’ll probably grab it. I’ll wait till 10 is actually on the app store… (It’s still 9, they say you’ll get the 10 upgrade when it actually hits the App store if you buy 9 there now.)
BBEdit rocks!
If you edit text or HTML for anything, you must have it.