BBEdit Product Tour
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Work Your Way
- dive right in because BBEdit works exactly as you expect it to with all the Mac behavior you depend on, from keyboard shortcuts to support for the latest Mac technologies such as Bonjour
- customize Menu keys (keyboard shortcuts)
- create your own functions for BBEdit using your favorite scripting language with comprehensive AppleScript, Perl and Unix Shell support
- you can even modify the behavior of the built-in menus using AppleScript because BBEdit is attachable
- create Clippings for ready access to frequently used items and custom tags; with menu-driven and key-bindable item selection; language-sensitive Clipping sets (sample C Source, HTML, JavaScript, Property List, RSS, WML, and XSLT Clipping sets included)
- create your own syntax coloring without programming
- customize palette layout by task
- use BBEdit with the Mac OS X Terminal
Customizing a Menu command
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Using a clipping to speed PHP coding
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Codeless Language Modules
Codeless language modules make it much easier to extend BBEdit’s built-in syntax coloring and function navigation. Previously, this required writing and compiling a BBEdit plugin. Beginning with BBEdit 8, the basic syntax and coloring rules for programming languages can be represented by a relatively simple text file. This makes it possible for even non-programmers to add support for their favorite languages.
BBEdit 8 introduced a text-file format for describing a programming language’s basic structure (including the format of strings and comments, the basic structure of functions, and keyword lists). These “Codeless Language Modules” supplement BBEdit’s existing plug-in architecture for extending syntax coloring, function navigation and code folding.
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, clean document (clean means it will not ask to be saved when closing) and to scroll the window to the top of the document. (The document behind the Terminal window is a BBEdit document.)
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Workspaces
Create different workspaces for different tasks or projects: e.g. one for working on a web site and another for writing software. The Workspace commands allow you to save and restore the arrangement of your palettes (as listed on the Palettes submenu).
Find out what’s new in BBEdit 9. Or check out the full feature list.