System Requirements
BBEdit 8 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later. The software will not run on Mac OS 9 or any earlier versions of Mac OS X.
Feature Highlights
BBEdit 8 marks a new milestone in the evolution of the product. Here are just a few of the many features and enhancements present in this version:
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Support for opening and managing multiple text documents via a single window interface.
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Text Factories for applying multiple text processing actions to diverse source documents.
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Enhanced multi-file searching, offering threaded searches and diverse search sources.
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Use of ATSUI for text rendering greatly improves handling of Unicode files, particularly those containing glyphs from multiple disparate languages.
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Codeless language modules offer readily extensible syntax coloring support.
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Server-based preview option for HTML documents.
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CSS 2.1 support in the HTML Tools via new editing commands and Tag Maker support.
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HTML syntax checker support for checking partial documents and excluding content sections.
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Command line tool enhancements including support in the "bbedit" tool for opening files from FTP/SFTP servers, and a new "bbdiff" tool.
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Text menu commands expanded and enhanced: imported capabilities of former plug-in tools, sheet support, improved recordability, and more.
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Spell checking now uses the Mac OS X system spelling checker.
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Integrated support for Exuberant Ctags.
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Integrated support for the Perforce (P4) source control system
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Numerous CVS improvements, including CVSEDITOR support for checkin comments.
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Affrus support for debugging Perl Scripts.
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Streamlined application support folder configuration supports both global and local add-in items.
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New visual Page Guide and tab stop indicators.
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Current line highlighting preference.
Info on New Features
In addition to these major enhancements, BBEdit 8 also contains a plethora of additional features and interface and performance enhancements, as well as bug fixes. For a detailed summary of changes and bug fixes, please refer to the current release notes, which are available in the BBEdit Support section of our web site.