BBEdit
BBEdit overview
BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Mac. Specifically crafted in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product provides a plethora of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of text. BBEdit transforms text with high performance.
An intelligent interface provides easy access to BBEdit's best of class features including grep pattern matching, search and replace across multiple files, function navigation and syntax coloring for numerous source code languages, FTP and SFTP open and save, AppleScript, Perl, and OS X Unix scripting support, glossary support, and a complete set of HTML tools.
What’s new in version 14.1.2
Updated on May 11 2022
Fixes:
- Made a change so that BBEdit will no longer return language servers located in /usr/bin. This is a read-only location and macOS 12 leaves a stub version of clangd there, which appears to hang when started on some systems.
- Avoid crash which would occur in some (unidentified) circumstances when attempting to make a backup copy of the current preferences while quitting.
- Made a change to how script/filter/clipping keyboard equivalents are loaded and saved, to hopefully reduce the chance of data loss caused by iCloud Drive.
- Made a change to how FTP/SFTP bookmarks are loaded and saved, to hopefully reduce the chance of data loss caused by iCloud Drive.
- Made a change to how saved Grep patterns are loaded and saved, to hopefully reduce the chance of data loss caused by iCloud Drive.
- Corrected line layout cosmetics in the Bookmarks setup pane.
- Made changes to improve cascading behavior when creating new windows.
- Implemented a fast path for returning commonly requested text document properties in response to AppleScript requests. This is particularly beneficial for very large files.
- If the shell in use is not a shell that BBEdit knows how to talk to, then BBEdit will fall back to zsh rather than try to talk to the shell (which usually ends in tears).
- Cleaned up error logging in cases where a language server is configured but not found.
- Corrected behavior of end-range adjustment when a line break is at the end of a selection when using "Print Selection".
- Fixed crash which would occur when using "Show Symbol Help" with some language servers that implemented an older (deprecated) protocol response.
- Adjusted the logic for detecting web browsers (for the "Preview in" submenu) so that it's more likely to find applications that are actually web browsers.
- Corrected behavior of the title bar menu when switching between documents on disk and untitled documents (or notes) in the same window. This also includes behavior improvements in the title bar menu when a Note is displayed.
- macOS does not support removing image metadata from certain image file types (such as GIF and .ico), and will return a specific error if asked. If this occurs during site deployment, BBEdit will ignore the error and upload the image file as-is.
- Fixed bug in which turning on the "Use ASCII equivalent" option for Zap Gremlins in a Text Factory would not perform the desired operation.
- Added code to guard against a nonreproducible crash which seems to indicate a drag-and-drop operation was in progress.
- Fixed bug in which the "Close & Delete" command would sometimes inappropriately read "Remove Note". (It still worked correctly, though.)
- Fixed bug in which clicking on a newly added file in a project didn't cause the file's entry in the Project list to gain a close button.
- Fixed bug in which documents opened via the built-in FTP/SFTP support were inappropriately registered with language servers (which themselves usually have no idea what to do at that point).
- Fixed crash which would occur when a system appearance change occurred after having used and closed a source control form window or a "Show Documentation" output window.
- Fixed crash which would occur when switching application appearance (from light to dark, or vice versa) after having closed the Find and/or Multi-File Search windows.
- Fixed bug in which "Preview in BBEdit" window positions were not correctly restored.
- Made a change so that simple window frame (position/size) changes mark a document's state as "dirty" without any other state changes being required; thus if you do nothing other than open a document into its own window, move/resize it, and then close it, the next time you open it, the window will be in the location at the size you left it.
- Added some tests to guard against a reported (but not reproducible) crash.
Information
License
Shareware
Size
23.5 MB
Developer’s website
https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/Downloads
311431
App requirements
- Intel 64
- Apple Silicon
- macOS 10.14.2 or later
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May 27 2021
Version: 13.5.6
I only use the free mode, but this app so useful. Great for opening XML files and using search to find/confirm data, show invisibles that are causing trouble, etc.
Oct 4 2019
Version: 13.0
BBEdit 13 is the one version I am NOT upgrading to. Use to be every two years, now just ONE year after my last purchase they want more money, and for very little. Grep playground? Not worth it. Better dark mode? I don't use dark mode. And in their "what's new" they even list something that was brought out in version 12 (the commands). And after all that embarrassing denial about the syntax colouring bug. No, no, no. Not this one.
Sep 13 2019
Version: 12.6.7
So, after me pointing this out about 5 years ago - Certain edits within a "PHP in HTML" source file would set up a situation in which subsequent edits would cause syntax coloring to get confused - they now finally fixed it. Really a pity that it took so long for me to believed and the fault to be found and fixed. I have burnt my wallet too many times upgrading hoping that the next version fixes it so I will wait for others to confirm. I cannot afford to keep updating for a feature (actually, a fix) that never seems to work. I hope you have it right, finally.
Jul 28 2019
Version: 12.6.5
I like this app but really can't find an excuse to shell out the good hunk of money this app costs, when excellent editors like VSCode or Atom are available for free, not to mention commercial alternatives like Sublime that also are multi-platform -- and also happens to have way lot more of features than BBEdit all of them. Please enlighten me.
Jul 24 2019
Version: 12.6.5
I use it for my website. It is the best one. Period.
Jun 27 2019
Version: 12.6.5
Best editor for the Mac. It’s one of the apps that is permanently open and ready. I don’t use most of the features it has, but it’s reassuring to know it has so many for when I need them. It is well maintained.
Nov 14 2018
Version: 12.5
I totally understand why the syntax colouring bug is frustrating but I don't understand how this could be the basis of so many super low review ratings. The team at BareBones clearly knock themselves out to constantly enhance and deepen BBEdit's abilities with plain text. (Now that I think about it, I don't think the syntax colouring but is still around or at least as bad as it once was.)
Have you seen the user manual? It's almost 400 pages... for a text editor! And that's not because it's overly verbose but because the ridiculous number of abilities BBEdit has to document. I'm sure I don't use more than... 15% of them and still find BBEdit essential. Yes, there are other editors that let you edit code, but there is very little with BBEdit's breadth and depth of features.
That all said, I'm only giving 4.5 stars because there's no way to get the Function menu to only show functions (not objects, etc.). Gotta keep you trying, guys! (See! *That* is how you rank something that's awesome except for your pet feature. :-) )
Have you seen the user manual? It's almost 400 pages... for a text editor! And that's not because it's overly verbose but because the ridiculous number of abilities BBEdit has to document. I'm sure I don't use more than... 15% of them and still find BBEdit essential. Yes, there are other editors that let you edit code, but there is very little with BBEdit's breadth and depth of features.
That all said, I'm only giving 4.5 stars because there's no way to get the Function menu to only show functions (not objects, etc.). Gotta keep you trying, guys! (See! *That* is how you rank something that's awesome except for your pet feature. :-) )
Mar 11 2018
Version: 12.1.1
folder compare is awesome! fast for opening (large) text documents
Feb 28 2018
Version: 12.1.1
Been using BBEdit since day 1. It's not as super-fast as Atom or Sublime, but it's got eh absolut best simple automation functionality, great extensibiliyt, format detection, super huge file editing... can't live on a Mac without it.
Feb 26 2018
Version: 12.1.1
I've been a BBEdit user since the very earliest versions and it is my one of my favorites. It's also one of the most powerful and comprehensive professional text editing tools around. Kudos to Bare Bones Software for their consistent, dedicated, responsive support of this wonderful product.
Dec 19 2017
Version: 12.0.2
I was surprised to see all the negative reviews (I'm unfamiliar with the syntax coloring bug and haven't seen stability problems with 11 or 12)
I use several text editors, but overall I find BBEdit to be a great tool for working with large files or folders of files.
A few things I especially like:
- Finding All in a file or across files (and navigate results in a separate window)
- Extract matching text from file(s) -- literals or regular expressions
- Viewing/ / fixing obscure text encoding issues that choke other editors (the Zap Gremlins feature is sometimes handy)
- File / folder comparisons
- Include files (static or dynamic)
- Very customizable
Oct 24 2017
Version: 12.0.1
Stay Away. Since they have been informed of the syntax coloring bug, they have release about 10 updates and 1 paid upgrade and still haven't even acknowledged it. They ignore my emails pointing it out, saying they cannot replicate it. Guess what barebones? The people here can all replicate it! And be aware that when this bug cripples your productivity and you request a refund, they begin ignoring all your emails. Caveat Emptor.
Oct 23 2017
Version: 12.0.1
Another paid update with nothing much to show for it. The syntax colouring bug is still there! Oh dear, Bare Bones indeed!
Next they’ll go subscription. Next they’ll go under.
Oct 20 2017
Version: 12.0
Another disappointing update that does not really bring a lot of new features I can use.
Ftp still sucks, now they added the ability to open folders by clicking on a little triangle, really, wow that is so modern, but guess what clicked on the triangle and nothing happens, this functionality is not working , using transmit as ftp is really basic since version 10 and do not use it anymore.
Syntax colouring still has the bug? What have they then been fixing?
No improvement with the clippings palette I was really hoping for.
Also suggested adding CSS lookup/editing similar to what brackets has, they said this is a good idea but has not been added. But then bracket is 240MB.
Guess we will have to update as we otherwise are stuck with know bugs, also do not see what this update is all about, guess it was time to charge for an update as they need to do this form time to time, which in itself is fair enough as they do keep the program working after system updates. Also had hopes to get at least get one exiting interphase improvement with a full version number, this is more like 11.5 then 12.
Oct 15 2017
Version: 12.0
What a cheek! They refused the acknowledge the existence of the syntax coloring bug in v11, then they refused to accept it and now they release a new version without even addressing it - or fixing it!!!!! Time to leave this former stalwart behind. It is a pity, really but BareBones have done this to themselves.
Oct 13 2017
Version: 12.0
Old 32bit Software, requires the use of the CMV-Compiler - reducing the power of all the system.
SublimeText is the much much better solution for me and it is cross platform.
Sep 14 2017
Version: 11.6.8
Great app, great attention to detail. Solid as a rock. Powerful.
May 29 2017
Version: 11.6.6
Syntax coloring still not fixed. When I have a file open that uses PHP short tags, sooner or later the syntax coloring in BBEdit tanks. I have sent them thousands of examples and complaints. It worked in all versions before 11. They seem to be slipping in their skills. A real pity...
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