I’ve been using it since a year or two later, and I doubt there’sĪn app I’ve spent more time in. At that time, I considered BBEdit mature and well-established.ĭiscussions marking this week’s anniversary on MetaFilter and Hacker News.
That’s worked out pretty well - just about every long piece I’ve written for Daring Fireball was written in BBEdit (including this one, natch). My lasting contribution: tweaking the user manual’s Grep chapter when BBEdit 6.something adopted the PCRE regular expression engine theretofore it had been using a heavily modified version of Henry Spencer’s original library.ġ8 years ago I created Markdown in BBEdit, with the intention of using it from BBEdit.
In 1992, though, it was a breakthrough.Īnd I remember thinking, “Grep search, what’s that about?”Įight years later I was working at Bare Bones Software. (Anyone who claims to have used BBEdit 1.x is either misremembering or was a colleague or friend of Rich Siegel’s in 1991.) BBEdit’s multi-file search and replace remains the best I’ve ever seen. I started using BBEdit in the fall of 1992. Grep pattern-matching is available for single. Times and technology have certainly changed, as has BBEdit, but BBEdit today (version 14.1, released a month ago) is remarkably similar in spirit to BBEdit then.īBEdit offers fast and flexible multi-file search and replaceĬapabilities under System 7, it can also use On Location 2.0 as a BBEdit could open files as large as the amount of available RAM. That felt constraining even back in 1992. Text editors that used the standard system text editing APIs in that era were limited to opening files no larger than 32 kilobytes. The size ofĪny file is only limited by the amount of memory available inīBEdit’s partition there is no 32K upper bound. Usage it will run in a partition as small as 256K. “32-bit clean” was a bugaboo at the time for older Mac apps (the platform was only 8 years old, so “older” wasn’t very old) to run on System 7.īBEdit is also very economical with respect to disk and memory Takes specific advantage of new features to enhance performance
System version 6.0 or later, and when running under System 7.0, This is the first public release of BBEdit, which is a free textĮditor that has been under development and extensive in-houseīBEdit is 32-bit clean, compatible with any Macintosh running 30 Years of BBEdit Not Sucking Friday, 15 April 2022
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