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Bare Bones Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Posted by pudge on from the without-bbedit-i-would-not-even-have-an-ass-to-save dept.

An anonymous user writes, "Bare Bones, makers of BBEdit, 'celebrates 3650 days of saving your ass' (according to the new t-shirt) with the the BBEdit Anthology, a limited edition autographed CD with every final commercial release of BBEdit, plus the free versions as 'bonus tracks.' Liner notes are included." It's $250, comes with a BBEdit 7 license, and only 1,000 were produced. OK, the price is a little steep, but it's a collector's item. And the company is also offering a 10% discount on any product orders through June 30, so it is only $225! I still remember the first time I saw BBEdit, a Mac text editor, and I thought, "what, like a word processor?" Some things never change ...

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  1. Re:BBedit going out with a bang? by michaelggreer · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've been coding my pages in xhtml and css, so the layout is separated from the content. When making JSPs for such pages, BBEdit has been wonderful, and Dreamweaver is useless. Dreamweaver is great for some kinds of pages, but is incredibly slow and buggy on the Mac. I mean, terrible. BBEdit just does what it claims, and I have used it since its inception.

  2. Re:BBedit going out with a bang? by self+assembled+struc · · Score: 3, Informative

    Nor, do I think you work on a LOT of websites. I'm the senior web developer for the also-ran search engine, and without BBEdit and OS X, i'd scream.

    BBEdit lets you do GREP-based search and replace across multiple open files, files in a directory, has code clean up options and the such.

    I write all of my code in BBEdit, JS, CSS,XHTML, PHP, whatever...layers, multiple frames..whatever. It's still the best text editor i've ever used, bar none

  3. Re:Pricey by Feral+Bueller · · Score: 2, Informative
    You can still get BBEdit Lite -- it's just harder to find:

    http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/vs_ Lite.shtml

    It's also stuck on Version 6.1 apparently.

    --
    - learn to swim.
  4. Re:Pricey by WeirdKid · · Score: 2, Informative

    $179 is quite high for this sort of thing. But it's got a loyal following from the early Mac days that will pay (or at least talk their bosses into paying). I wonder how many people would shell out the cash if it came out of their own pocket? I'm sure there are some who do, but not me. In this vein, it's a lot like IntelliJ or SlickEdit.

    When the freeware 6.1 version for OSX started getting crashy, I switched to JEdit. Ant and CVS integration, autocompletion, code refactoring, you-name-it plugins. It's cross platform and open source!

  5. Edit by FTP by kosibar · · Score: 2, Informative

    Transmit has a similar feature, but I haven't looked into how it works yet. I think I'll have to take a look at that. Thanks for the tip!

    Still no tabs, though. :-(

  6. More than 10 years by h3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Looking at the timeline, the 10 years refers to the commercial releases of BBEdit, which began in 1993 at v2.5x.

    I recall using it for a programming class in college ca. '89-'90, so it's been already a bit longer than that. Probably longer than some slashdotters have been around :p.

    I also remember reading the README that came with the original freeware BBEdit, where Rich proclaimed that BBEdit will always and forever be FREE (as in beer).

    For whatever that's worth.

    -h3