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BBEdit Lite 3.5.1
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What's New in BBEdit Lite 3.5.1
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What's New in BBEdit Lite 3.5
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This document provides a quick overview of what's new in BBEdit Lite
3.5, relative to version 3.0. In general, many improvements and
refinements have been made to the user interface, and a number of
performance enhancements and bug fixes are also included.
PowerPC Performance
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BBEdit Lite now contains some PowerPC code, to improve performance
when opening and editing large files.
"Soft" Text Wrapping
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BBEdit Lite 3.5 features "soft" text wrapping, in which long lines of
text are automatically wrapped to the width of the editing window,
without using carriage returns. As you insert and delete text, BBEdit
Lite will automatically re-flow the text as necessary. The "Soft
Wrap Text" option replaces the old "Wrap While Typing" option.
New "Find" Dialog
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The Find dialog (which comes up when you choose "Find..." from the
Search menu) has been expanded and revised for more functionality
and greater ease of use. All of the options from BBEdit Lite 3.0
are present, but you no longer have to flip pages in the dialog
in order to access the multi-file search options. In addition,
you can now hide the multi-file search options by clicking the
small triangle to the left of the "Multi-File Search" check box.
A "Start at Top" option has been added. When this option is selected,
BBEdit Lite will always search forward from the beginning of the file,
regardless of where the current selection range may be.
Updated Menus
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BBEdit Lite now uses Ramon Felciano's "Mercutio" menu definition.
In addition to being more compatible than the previous approach,
Mercutio also makes "alternative" keyboard equivalents visible
while menus are pulled down. (To see this in action, pull down
the File menu, and slowly press and release the Option key.)
Improved "Get Info" dialog
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The Get Info dialog has been expanded to provide character, word, and
line counts for both the selection range and the entire documents. To
compute the page count for the selection range and entire document,
click the "Paginate" button. The "Copy Path" button will place the full
path of the front document onto the Clipboard, ready for pasting into
an edit window or into another application.
Simplified Preferences
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The "Zap Gremlins" and "Hard Wrap" commands now remember their settings
after you quit BBEdit. As a result, the "Wrapping" and "Zapping"
sections of the Preferences dialog are no longer required, and have
been removed.
In addition, the "Preferences" dialog has been revised for greater
ease of use. All available preferences are listed on the left-hand
side of the Preferences dialog; you can click on any one of the
items to make that page of the dialog available.
Simplified State
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The "Remember File State" option controls whether or not BBEdit Lite
remembers a document's state information (window position and size, font
settings, display and printing options, and more). Version 3.5 no longer
differentiates between the different state resource formats, but instead
saves the state information in a format that is compatible with all
modern text editors and development environments. (The Remember File
State option for each document can be found on the file options popup in
each window's status area, and can be set for all new documents in the
"State" section of the Preferences dialog.)
Bug Fixes
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As of BBEdit Lite 3.5.1, the following reported problems have been fixed:
- Page numbers are now printed correctly, i.e. "Page M of N", instead
of "MN".
- Some character spacing anomalies when printing in Monaco on laser
printers have been worked around. Monaco remains a problematic font,
however - we recommend the use of Courier or ProFont.
- A bug which prevented the opening of 'PICT' files has been
corrected.
- When bringing up the "Find..." dialog for the first time in a
session, the popup area next to the "File Type" prompt would be
blank. It now correctly displays "All Available".
- The diamonds in the Windows menu are now properly updated each
time you pull down the Windows menu.
- The items on the Edit menu are now correctly enabled when a
dialog box is being displayed.
- The items in the Windows menu are now properly updated after
performing a "Save As" operation.
As of BBEdit Lite 3.5, the following reported problems have been fixed:
- Multi-file replace operations no longer skip every other file.
- The "Indent All Lines" option for "Hard Wrap" now works correctly
when wrapping multiple paragraphs.
- "Zap Gremlins" now properly zaps the forward-delete (ASCII 127)
character when "Zap Control Characters" is activated in the
dialog.