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What's New in BBEdit Lite 4.0.1
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What’s New in BBEdit Lite 4.0.1
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This document provides a quick overview of what’s new in BBEdit Lite
4.0, relative to previous versions. 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.
Overall Construction
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From an engineering perspective, BBEdit Lite 4.0 has more in common with
commercial releases of BBEdit than with previous releases of BBEdit
Lite. It is built from the same code and resource bases. This has
yielded many “under the hood” improvements to performance,
functionality, and reliability.
PowerPC Performance
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BBEdit 4.0 is constructed as a “fat binary”: an application which is
fully native on both 680x0 and PowerPC Macintosh models. This yields
maximum performance on Power Macs, and also derives benefits from using
Virtual Memory on Power Macintosh models.
Drag and Drop Text Editing
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BBEdit Lite 4.0 features “drag and drop” text editing; having made a
selection, you simply drag it to wherever it needs to go: another
location in the same document, another open window, or another
application. If you drop your text selection in the Finder, and the
“Clipping Extension” is installed, the system will create a clipping
file, which may be re-used at any time.
You can also insert a file’s contents into a text document by simply
dragging and dropping it from another location. To insert a folder
listing, drag and drop a folder (or an alias to a folder), or even an
entire disk.
Recent Files
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In the File menu, the “Open Recent” command gives quick access to the
twelve most-recently-opened files.
Improved Search and Replace
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BBEdit Lite 4.0 features improved performance in Grep searches and
“Replace All” operations. For optimal Replace All performance, we
recommend that you turn on the “Start at Top” check box in the Find
dialog, or, if you do not wish to operate on the entire file, turn off
the “Wrap Around” and “Backwards” check boxes.
Updated Extensions
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Several of the BBEdit extensions included in the BBEdit Lite
distribution package have been improved and upgraded:
- The “827” extension has been renamed “Convert to ASCII”, to more
accurately reflect this tool’s function;
- The “Educate Quotes” extension is now undo-able, and will operate
on the current selection range if there is one (and on the entire
document if not).
- the behavior of Prefix/Suffix Lines has now been corrected in
several instances.
Bug Fixes and Minor Improvements
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The following minor enhancements are new as of BBEdit Lite 4.0.1:
+ When performing an "Open Selection" within an untitled document,
BBEdit will now detect the case in which the selection encompasses a
full pathname, and attempt to open the file directly.
+ The Clipboard window is now searchable; you can also make selections
using the mouse or keyboard and drag them to other BBEdit windows
(or to other applications).
+ If you choose the "Open Selection" command and there is no selection
in the front editing window, BBEdit will display a dialog that you
can use to type in the desired file name.
+ Various optimizations have been applied to the process of loading
BBEdit Extensions; the result is that in general, there is a
noticeable reduction in the amount of time BBEdit takes to start up.
+ BBEdit now requires much less transient memory when performing a Cut
or Copy operation, and now stores its clipboard data in system
memory. The net result is that you should be able to cut and copy
very large amounts of text without needing to increase BBEdit's
memory allocation size.
The following reported problems are corrected in BBEdit Lite 4.0.1:
- When beginning a new undoable action, BBEdit Lite now releases any
memory used by a previous undoable action.
- Fixed a problem in the Grep pattern matcher which would cause
available memory to decrease each time a Grep search is performed;
this would lead to BBEdit rapidly running out of memory during
Replace All operations using Grep.
- when saving a modified document, BBEdit now ensures that sufficient
disk space is available -before- attempting to overwrite the old
document contents. This guards against the old document getting lost
in the event of a disk-full error.
- if BBEdit has to take its "emergency exit" due to an out-of-memory
condition, it will now use intrinsic MacOS notification services to
warn of this state of affairs. This prevents a hang which would
occur if BBEdit unexpectedly ran out of memory while performing an
operation in the background.
- the line number display will no longer flicker as you type in
editing windows.
- in some circumstances, BBEdit would be launched in the background
by another application, get brought forward, and end confused about
whether it was in the foreground or not. BBEdit now guards against
this situation.
- when printing soft-wrapped text documents, BBEdit will no longer
erroneously drop the last character.
- BBEdit now guards itself against corrupted resource files; this
prevents BBEdit from quitting unexpectedly when open files whose
state information may have been damaged.
- when multi-file searching after a reverse search, BBEdit will now
BBEdit will no longer occasionally try to search backwards in disk
files (resulting in no occurrences being found).
What was New In BBEdit Lite 3.5
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This section summarizes the changes that were introduced in BBEdit
Lite 3.5.
“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.)
Contact Info
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Bare Bones Software, Inc.
P.O. Box 1048
Bedford, MA 01730
email: support@barebones.com
Web: http://www.barebones.com/
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