BBEdit is 30 years old today

Re:BBEdit is 30 years old today by Loudness on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @08:23PM (#31009809)

BBEdit still has the best multi-file search-and-replace feature of any editor I've ever used. Tons of options, a visual pattern builder, multiple simultaneous search source directories and the option to save search sets, it's saved me innumerable hours of tedium.

It's worth the price for that one feature alone.

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Re:BBEdit is 30 years old today by scelerat on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:09AM (#31011955)

I still keep updating it (been using it since 1.x days) for multi-file search as well, even as the rest of my workflow is tmux, nvim and other command-line tools. BBedit's diff tool is excellent too.

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Re:BBEdit is 30 years old today by datavirtue on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @12:11AM (#31011138)

I used it to search and navigate 10GB+ text files for a major project. It was the only editor that could do it.

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Re:BBEdit is 30 years old today by ungamedplayer on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @03:34AM (#31012083)

I've previously been able to edit large files with vim, emacs as far back as 1998 and other editors on OSX for a while, what would happen in editors such as hexfiend, glogg, pilotedit,vim,emacs etc ?

Unless bbedit available for another platform that wasn't osx ? (my history is shady).

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Re:BBEdit is 30 years old today by daydream on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:44PM (#31010342)

The multi file search and replace is so good that it kept me coding Python in BBEdit long after I should have switched to something better suited to the task.

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Re:BBEdit is 30 years old today by bayindirh on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:15AM (#31013723)

BBEdit was one of the first serious tools I've bought for my Mac, and I'm a happy camper ever since.

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