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Sep. 10th, 2006 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
roadrunnertwiceSo I really wanted to try the new version of BBEdit that dropped a day or two ago, but I'd used up my 30-day preview, and am not going to have money for software-buying for a while yet. But! It looks like whatever mechanism they use for cutting you off once your trial period is over does the right thing, allowing you to restart the counter once a new major revision hits.
Granted, the point of that is to get people who didn't like the earlier version to re-evaluate in light of the upgrade, not to throw a sop to "between jobs" 20-somethings who had already broken down and were planning to buy it anyway. But hey, I'll take what I can get.
And man, it's a nice release. Specifically, it's the first release where they're visibly competing with TextMate, and they lifted all kinds of cool stuff from it. (Text folding, a strongersnippets glossary clippings system, Ruby support that actually works, list controls in the status bar...) They also reorganized and completely de-fugged the interface (it no longer looks like a refugee from OS 9, huzzah), and implemented auto-save, sub-line diffing (oh my GOD that's exciting), and as-you-type spellcheck. Probably some other stuff. And they ditched the Comic Sans and brought back the Palatino or whatever it was for the 'B' in the icon image.
Anyway, it's a keeper. I really do like this program, and a LOT more than I was ever expecting to. I'll probably write more about it later.
Granted, the point of that is to get people who didn't like the earlier version to re-evaluate in light of the upgrade, not to throw a sop to "between jobs" 20-somethings who had already broken down and were planning to buy it anyway. But hey, I'll take what I can get.
And man, it's a nice release. Specifically, it's the first release where they're visibly competing with TextMate, and they lifted all kinds of cool stuff from it. (Text folding, a stronger
Anyway, it's a keeper. I really do like this program, and a LOT more than I was ever expecting to. I'll probably write more about it later.
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Date: 2006-09-11 03:38 am (UTC)show you the ropes, kid. show you the ropes
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Date: 2006-09-11 04:30 am (UTC)Is their other stuff any good?