System Requirements

BBEdit 8 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later, and Mac OS X 10.4 or later is required for Automator support. 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:

• Support for opening and managing multiple text documents via a single window interface.
• Automator support for incorporating BBEdit's text processing power in workflows (requires Mac OS X 10.4)
• Text Factories for applying multiple text processing actions to diverse source documents.
• Enhanced multi-file searching, offering threaded searches and diverse search sources.
• Use of ATSUI for text rendering greatly improves handling of Unicode files, particularly those containing glyphs from multiple disparate languages.
• Codeless language modules offer readily extensible syntax coloring support.
• Server-based preview option for HTML documents.
• Integrated support for the Subversion and Perforce (P4) source control systems.
• CSS 2.1 support in the HTML Tools via new editing commands and Tag Maker support.
• HTML syntax checker support for checking partial documents and excluding content sections.
• Command line tool enhancements including support in the "bbedit" tool for opening files from FTP/SFTP servers, and a new "bbdiff" tool.
• Text menu commands expanded and enhanced: imported capabilities of former plug-in tools, sheet support, improved recordability, and more.
• Spell checking now uses the Mac OS X system spelling checker.
• Integrated support for Exuberant Ctags.
• Numerous CVS improvements, including CVSEDITOR support for checkin comments.
• Affrus support for debugging Perl Scripts.
• Streamlined application support folder configuration supports both global and local add-in items.
• New visual Page Guide and tab stop indicators.
• Current line highlighting preference.