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BBEdit 7.1 Adds Safari-Based Preview
A user writes, "BBEdit has added a 'Preview in BBEdit' command in 7.1, so you can preview HTML inside BBEdit itself, using the Apple's Safari libraries." Also added is support for SFTP (file transfers over SSH), Rendezvous discovery of FTP servers, and more. Just-released version 7.1.1 adds more refresh options for the Preview feature.
I'd actually like to nominate jEdit as being the true emacs of the GUI age. It's about as extensible, customizeable, and scriptable, and it's even BIGGER!
(It's also an awesome editor, if you have the system resources to burn ~30MB RAM on a text editor)
A Minesweeper clone that doesn't suck
SubEthaEdit, which was once called Hydra, has had both of these features for a couple months now. It also offers some pretty intriguing collaborative editing functionality, is written purely in Cocoa, and is both free and open. It integrated quite nicely with InputMethod extensions, like TextExtras, as well.
BBEdit was nice, before OS X and the availability of jEdit, jExt, emacs/carbon, vim and many of the other cross-platform editors. Now, it has fallen a bit behind the times, and is not worth the cost.
Weapons of Mass Analysis
Somewhere around BBEdit 4 or so I may have agreed with you, but not anymore. BBEdit has been suffering from feature bloat ever since people figured out it was a great HTML editor, and now with the Webcore preview feature, it's coming one step closer to being a WYSIWYG web page editor. Add in the FTP capabilities, remote editing, and the file group feature and you already have basic site management. All that's really needed is a bit of refinement and it's there.
On a side note, I have yet to find a web page editor with a site management feature I like. Unless there was something I missed in Dreamweaver MX or it's changed in MX 2004, the biggest thing I found lacking is that you can only synchronize between your local computer and one other system. The way I had my setup was a local copy for editing, a home web server for testing, and then I would upload to my actual server. Dreamweaver doesn't allow for a setup like this, so I would ultimately have to upload the files to my website manually either from my system or the test server. It also doesn't allow for the possibility that you could have one site spanning two remote servers without having to create a separate site for each system (although I am guessing this is a rare occurrence, I do know of one non-profit that I created a site for that had this type setup. What the reasoning behind it was I don't know, but since I didn't have control over it I just had to deal with it).
fuck you.
Well, I saved myself about ten hours of pain using the rectangular selection capability of BBEdit.fullvers to enable me to copy and paste contiguous rectangular chunks of HTML (headers attributes in tables... AAA-compliant financials are hell) That's worth about $500, so I'd say I was $321 ahead.
The productivity gains I have thanks to BBEdit save us a ton of money per week. I work in a mac shop with Microsoft-based web apps (the horror!) and the workflow process is terrible and with little hope. What used to take hours of cutting and pasting to convert between totally dissimilar formats is now done 99% with just one click, thanks to the Perl filters and built-in features of BBEdit Pro. It is not just a speed advantage, it also saves us a ton on quality assurance, since with all this scripting we got rid of hundreds of places where errors could be added to the documents.
The one thing BBEdit cannot do is select a column from a HTML table unless there is a specific pattern I can regex for. That one task is done in Dreamweaver MX, everything else is done in BBEdit Pro.
BTW, mine was not $179, I got really lucky. I paid $79 for BBEdit 6.5 and like a week later 7.0 came out and they gave me a free upgrade.
Pedro
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The Insomniac Coder
i've been pretty close to ditching BBEdit (6.5 i admit, it's hefty upgrade for a TextEditor)in favor of a SubEthaEdit/Xcode combo. (SubEthaEdit for a live updating HTML preview, AND mutilple people working on the same file at the same time. Xcode for C/C++/Obj.C programing without other people involved) i might have to give the new BBEdit a try now that it has one of my favoroite SubEthaEdit features :)
(oh, and given that SubEthatEdit is cocoa, it's got your Emacs key bindings - freak)
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Hand-coding HTML might be fine for geeks, but most regular users could use a WYSIWYG editor that is not as confusing as Dreamweaver and not as simplistic as Mozilla's built-in editor.
What I mean is, of course... good old discontinued CLARIS HOME PAGE. Someone has to make an editor that totally replicates CHP's interface and functionality, but that will generate modern HTML/CSS/whatever.
Circumcision is child abuse.