BBEdit

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BBEdit
Basic data

developer Bare Bones Software, Inc.
Publishing year 1992
Current  version 13.1
(June 2, 2020)
operating system macOS
programming language C.
category Text editor
License proprietary license
German speaking No
BBEdit website

BBEdit is a proprietary text editor for macOS (formerly Mac OS X and OS X), which is aimed primarily at programmers and web designers. It was introduced on April 12, 1992 as a program for Macintosh System Software 6 and has been continuously developed since then.

Bare Bones Software, based in Bedford (Massachusetts) in the USA, offered a free, functionally restricted version in addition to the paid version: Up to version 6.1 this was BBEdit Lite , later TextWrangler . With version 11.6 of BBEdit, these restricted variants were discontinued in summer 2016; instead, the unlicensed demo version of BBEdit now offers a comparable range of functions on a permanent basis.

Functions

BBEdit masters syntax highlighting for many different programming languages . Next one is FTP - and SFTP integrated support, as well as the ability to compare different versions of files. Some development environments can use BBEdit directly as a source code editor.

The range of functions of BBEdit can be extended by the user through scripts . It is also possible to add syntax highlighting for additional programming languages.

reception

BBEdit is described as a “powerful editor” “with many well thought-out and useful functions”. In 1997, the magazine c't emphasized the powerful search-and-replace function. The technology website Lifewire counts the free BBEdit version among the best free HTML editors for the Mac. In 2012 the Mac magazine Macworld praised the platform-independent, high-performance word processing function of BBEdit.

history

The following is an excerpt from the version history of BBEdit relating to the supported operating system versions of Mac OS and macOS. BBEdit Lite sometimes had a different minor version number (but the same major version number; for example, BBEdit Lite 4.1 had the code base of BBEdit 4.5). TextWrangler had its own version number that is not listed here.

version publication Last version Mac OS Description / note
Older version; no longer supported: 1 2.2
 from 6.0 Up to version 2.2 BBEdit was freeware and ran on the classic System 6 and System 7.
Older version; no longer supported: 2
Older version; no longer supported: 2.5 1993
from 6.0 In version 2.5, the first commercial version of BBEdit, some new features have been added. At the same time, a version with limited functions as BBEdit Lite was still released as freeware, but the Lite version 2.3 offered fewer functions than version 2.2 before.
Older version; no longer supported: 2.3 Lite
Older version; no longer supported: 3 from 6.0 There were versions 3.0, 3.1 and 3.5.
Older version; no longer supported: 4th May 13, 1996 4.5.3
June 23, 1998 		from 7.0 The reviews of version 4.0 were consistently positive.
Older version; no longer supported: 5 Nov 6, 1998 5.1.1
Jul 14, 1999 		With version 5.0 BBEdit was adapted to Mac OS 8.5 .
Older version; no longer supported: 6th Sep 11 2000 6.5.3 Sep
5 2002 		from 7.5.5 6.1: Based on Carbon only from Mac OS 8.1 with CarbonLib and Mac (or clone ) with PowerPC processor
6.5.3: First version for Mac OS X Jaguar (10.2) and at least MacOS 8.6 and at least CarbonLib 1.4
Older version; no longer supported: 7th Dec 13, 2002 7.1.4 Apr
28, 2004 		from 9.1 7.1: from Mac OS X Jaguar (10.2) and last version for Mac OS 9.1 with the requirement CarbonLib 1.5
Older version; no longer supported: 8th Aug 30, 2004 8.7.2 Dec
19, 2007 		from 10.3.5 8.2.5: Now as a Universal Binary available
8.5: Latest Version of Mac OS X Panther (10.3)
8.6 from Mac OS X Tiger (10.4)
Older version; no longer supported: 9 Aug 28, 2008 9.6.3
Jan. 24, 2011 		10.4 - 10.5 9.3.1: Last version for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4)
9.6.3: Last version as universal binary .
Older version; no longer supported: 10 19 Jul 2011 May 10, 2013
Oct. 15, 2014 		10.6.8 - 10.10 Last version for Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6).
Older version; no longer supported: 11 Oct 22, 2014 11.6.8
Sep. 13 2017 		from 8/10/5 11.1.4: Last version for OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
11.6.8: First version for macOS Sierra (10.12)
Older version; no longer supported: 12 Oct 12, 2017 12.6.1 Mar
8 2019 		from 10.11.6 Supports macOS High Sierra (10.13)
Current version: 13 3rd Oct 2019 13.0.2 Oct
28, 2019 		from 10.14.2 Supports macOS Catalina (10.15)
Legend:
Old version
Older version; still supported
Current version
Current preliminary version
Future version

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Company History. Bare Bones Software, Inc., accessed August 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b Jason Snell: Mac text editor BBEdit celebrates 20th anniversary. Macworld.com, April 11, 2012, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Andreas Beier: Easy and sensible. BBEdit Lite 4.0 for MacOS. heise.de, March 12, 1997, accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ What happened to TextWrangler? Bare Bones Software, Inc., accessed August 3, 2018 .
  5. ^ John Gruber: 'Select Word' Script for BBEdit. DaringFireball.net, September 23, 2003, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  6. ^ Fritz Anderson, Ryan Wilcox, Rich Siegel: 'Select Word' Script for BBEdit. Bare Bones Software, Inc., accessed August 3, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Jennifer Kyrnin: The 10 Best Free HTML Editors for the Mac. lifewire.com, March 27, 2018, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  8. ^ Andy Ihnatko: Mac classics: Why BBEdit rules. Opinion. Macworld.com, October 10, 2012, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b BBEdit Release Notes Archive. Bare Bones Software, Inc., accessed November 29, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Andrew Johnston: BBEdit: Not Quite Bare Bones. TidBITS, November 15, 1993, accessed April 28, 2020 : “BBEdit Lite 2.3 is a smaller version of BBEdit 2.2 but lacks some of the features of 2.2. It is, however, the official freeware version of BBEdit - version 2.2 is no longer supported. BBEdit Lite has everything that 2.2 has, except: Compare, XTND support, THINK Reference support, ToolServer support, On Location support "
  11. ↑ Frequently Asked Questions. (No longer available online.) Bare Bones Software, Inc., August 29, 1997, archived from the original on October 10, 1997 : “BBEdit 4.0, released May 13, 1996, features syntax-directed coloring of source code files ... ";
  12. ↑ BBEdit 4.5.3 Update. In: press release. MacTech, June 23, 1998, accessed April 28, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Carey Tews, Christopher Hall: Review: BBEdit reaches prime with feature-laden 4.0 . In: MacWEEK . tape 10 , no. 37 , September 30, 1996 (English, MacWEEK Online - Review [accessed April 28, 2020]): “Bare Bones Software Inc.'s text editor, BBEdit, has long been a mainstay for programmers, Web designers and others who need to edit and massage large amounts of text. "