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BBEdit 2.5.2 Release Notes ------ ----- ------- ----- This document contains information which was developed too late to be included in the manuals. BBEdit Is Commercial! ------ -- ----------- This version of BBEdit is NOT FREE. If you are using a non-demo copy that you obtained by a means other than a legitimate site license, product bundle, or direct purchase, then we encourage you to write to the address below and order your own copy. The pricing is reasonable, and options are available for discount and quantity pricing. On Location 2.0, Quadras, and AppleShare -- -------- ---- -------- --- ---------- There is a bug in On Location versions 2.0 and 2.0.1 which will cause your Macintosh to hang if you’re using a Macintosh Quadra, you have AppleShare volumes mounted, and you choose the “Find...” command in BBEdit. If this set of circumstances applies to you, you have these options: (1) Turn off the “On Location” option in the External Services section of the Preferences, and re-launch BBEdit; (2) Unmount any AppleShare volumes before using BBEdit’s “Find...” command; (3) Disable On Location; (4) Contact ON Technologies technical support and report the problem. You can contact them via AppleLink: their address is ON.SUPPORT; through the Internet (or any service which has a gateway to the Internet), their address is ON.SUPPORT@applelink.apple.com. If more people report the problem, they may be motivated to find a solution sooner, rather than later. (Note that an “AppleShare volume” can be a fileserver volume or a volume on someone else’s Macintosh published with Personal File Sharing under System 7.0.) THINK Project Manager 6.0 ----- ------- ------- --- The THINK Project Manager, version 6.0, has a number of bugs and limitations which occasionally make working with an external editor difficult. Presently, we are working with the technical staff at Symantec to resolve these issues. They should be taken care of for future maintenance versions of both BBEdit and the THINK Project Manager. The most noticeable problems are as follows: - On occasion, the THINK Project Manager will inexplicably refuse to provide the list of headers included by a given source file. If you option-click in the title bar of a connected source file, and you don’t get the list, this is most likely the cause. Should this happen, deactivate the source window in question and re-activate it, and BBEdit will try to get the list of includes again. - The THINK Project Manager provides no way for the external editor to perform the “Debug” (Command-I) command. This makes it very clumsy to source-debug files that are currently open in the external editor, or which aren’t open at all. To work around this limitation, switch to the TPM, select the file you wish to debug in the project window, and choose the TPM’s “Debug” command (or type Command-I). The text of that file will appear in the debugger’s “Source” window. If that file is currently open in BBEdit, the TPM will use the correct text, even if there are unsaved changes. - The THINK Project Manager provides no atomic way for the external editor to inform it that the name or location of a connected source file has changed. This means that if you do a “Save As...” of a connected source file, the TPM will continue to use the old source file. Until this problem is resolved in the TPM, you’ll have to manually remove the old file and add the new file to the proper location. - The THINK Project Manager will occasionally behave strangely or crash if the application pointed to by the “Editor” alias is running, even if “Use external editor” is turned off. The most noticeable symptoms of this misbehavior are spurious compile errors when building projects or compiling individual source files, and crashes when quitting a program which is being debugged with the source debugger. - Because of latency issues between BBEdit and the THINK Project Manager, certain menu items or services may not be available immediately after bringing a window to the front. Printing with Substituted Fonts -------- ---- ----------- ----- Because of idiosyncracies in the LaserWriter driver 7.1 and earlier, there are some character spacing anomalies when printing with a substituted monospaced font (i.e. Monaco). To avoid these problems, print in a non-substituted, monospaced PostScript font such as Courier. (With BBEdit, you can of course edit in one font, and print in another.) FaxSTF “FaxPrint” Printer Driver ------ ---------- ------- ------ Version 2.2.3 of the “FaxPrint” printer driver, supplied with the FaxSTF fax software package, has a bug in it which can cause all applications, not just BBEdit, to malfunction. STF Technologies has been notified of the problem. In the meantime, to avoid potential problems, choose another printer driver, such as the ImageWriter or LaserWriter driver, except when you’re planning to fax documents directly from within BBEdit. Contact STF Technologies for the latest information on the availability of a fix. NOW Utilities --- --------- Older versions of Super Boomerang have a bug which affects BBEdit; in particular, you cannot type upper-case letters in the “Save As…” dialog. This bug is fixed in version 4.0 and later of the NOW Utilities package; contact Now Software for an update. Now Save causes BBEdit’s “File” menu to get scrambled. To avoid this, turn off Now Save when running BBEdit. The Programmer’s Editor Package --- ------------ ------ ------- BBEdit was written with libraries which are part of the Programmer’s Editor Package. The PE Package provides high-performance text editing, searching, directory search, and pattern-match capabilities for use in text-manipulation programs. For more information, write to the address below. Contact Address ------- ------- Should you have questions about BBEdit, write or send e-mail to the address below: Bare-Bones Software c/o R. Siegel 1 Larkspur Way #4 Natick, MA 01760 Internet: bbedit@world.std.com Compuserve: 73051,3255 For technical support, bug reports, and other issues of an immediate nature, we strongly encourage you to use electronic mail. Not only does it save paper and time, but you will also be guaranteed of a response within hours of receipt of your message. Additional Acknowledgements ---------- ---------------- The regular-expression library used for ‘grep’ searching is based on the ‘regexp’ package, written by Henry Spencer of the University of Toronto. Pete Keleher provided a Mac- compatible version, from which BBEdit’s code is derived. Manual Errata ------ ------ - In a number of places, the manual makes reference to using Command-Return or Command-Option-Return to wrap text; these references should in fact read “Command-backslash” and “Command-Option-backslash”. - The “ToolServer” section of the Preferences has been removed; it served no useful purpose and caused great angst and confusion. If a local ToolServer cannot be found, then choosing “Use ToolServer” will bring up a dialog asking for a ToolServer application or giving the option to choose a remote ToolServer. Clicking the “Remote...” button will provide a PPC browser for choosing a remote ToolServer. Consequently, you should ignore page 115 of the BBEdit User Manual. Update Notes ------ ----- This section lists the bugs or shortcomings that have been fixed since the original 2.5 release of BBEdit. Changes for the current version of BBEdit are first, followed by changes for previous maintenance versions. Version 2.5.2 (10/18/93): - Grep searches are now between one and two orders of magnitude faster, and some bugs are fixed, particularly with line-anchored pattern searches. - Changing the rubber-stamp string in the “Options...” printing now actually has some effect. - BBEdit no longer turns off External Services preferences when an application can’t be found. This resolves the inconvenient situation when development tools are stored on removeable media. - Certain aspects of dialog-box interaction were broken in 2.5.1; these have been corrected. - The “Prefix/Suffix Lines” extension now works correctly; it too was broken in 2.5.1. - When a file contains Projector information which indicates that it’s modified-read-only, the pencil is drawn with a broken slash, and clicking on it does nothing. - You can now modify-read-only a file that’s checked out read-only by holding down the Option key and clicking on the pencil. Doing so will skip the alert requesting confirmation of the modify-read-only action. - Wrapping with Paragraph Fill and First Line Only indentation now correctly indents all paragraphs. - If Compare ran out of memory, it would either report that the files were identical, or BBEdit would bail out and write a rescue file. This no longer happens; if Compare runs out of memory, BBEdit will issue an appropriate error message. - Fixed cases in which viewing files in browser windows would needlessly run out of memory (sometimes bailing out). - Command-Return can now be used in the ToolServer Worksheet window as a substitute for the Enter key. - Fixed a crash that occurred in 2.5.1 when clicking on the text view’s scrollbar thumb in browser windows. - BBEdit now correctly disables the control-key shortcuts and “Insert” button in the glossary browser when the front editing window is read-only. - BBEdit now works around a bug in the THINK Project Manager which would cause it (the TPM) to issue a “File ‘Untitled’ not found” message when BBEdit closed a newly created window without saving changes. - BBEdit works around a bug in the LaserWriter 8.0 driver which would occasionally cause the system to crash when opening a document with saved print settings that the driver didn’t recognize. Version 2.5.1 (8/18/93): - In some circumstances, the directory popup in the disk and glossary browser windows would not be updated when moving to different directories. - The popup menu of include files (for files connected to the currently open THINK C 6.0 projects) is now sorted in alphabetical order. - BBEdit no longer goes to disk every time you pop up the menu of include files. - In some circumstances, BBEdit would erroneously inform the THINK Project Manager that some source files needed to be recompiled. - In some circumstances, the Wrap with paragraph fill and the Unwrap commands would erroneously remove whitespace and line breaks. - Grep searches will now match line-anchored patterns (patterns beginning with a ^) that match on the first line of the file. - It is now possible to search for literal occurrences of backslash-escaped characters (e.g. “hello world\n”) by escaping the backslash (thus making “hello world\\n”); replacement with literal backslash escapes is now also possible. - If a Search Results window was in front, and “Search Results” was the designated search method, BBEdit would erroneously reset the search method to “Directory Scan” and issue an alert. - The Bring Up To Date, Make, and Run commands are now available whenever there is a project open in the THINK Project Manager. - In some conditions, typing with Auto-Wrap while Typing turned on would cause update glitches in the text. - When clicking quickly on items in a window’s status bar, the clicks would sometimes be ignored. - When performing some background operations, BBEdit would occasionally refuse to behave correctly once the operation was complete, until it was placed in the background and then brought forward again. - Opening of THINK C projects for browsing and searching is now much faster. - The “attempt to use non-open file” message when opening some StuffIt archives with the StuffIt XTND translator has been resolved. - The performance of “Zap Gremlins” when replacing with a character code or deleting gremlins has been considerably improved. - In some circumstances, selection with the Shift and arrow keys would behave inconsistently. - BBEdit now includes a mechanism to help avoid deadlock situations which are caused by design flaws in the THINK Project Manager. - This version of BBEdit works around a bug in A/UX 3.0 which would cause text copied from another application not to be visible to BBEdit’s clipboard. - The “Copy Lines Containing” and “Cut Lines Containing” extensions now provide a progress dialog, and a long operation can be cancelled by typing Command-Period. - The “Prefix/Suffix Lines” extension now properly enables the “Selection Only” check box when there’s a selection in the front editing window. - Editing header files that are part of a THINK Project Manager project will now result in the correct recompilations. - BBEdit will no longer give a warning message if you choose an already-open file from the popup menu of include files. Thanks! ------- Thank you for purchasing BBEdit. If you have any suggestions for improvements, or any problems to report, don’t be shy. Feedback from customers is the best way to improve any piece of software. Thanks also to the many people who, in one way or another, directly contributed to the production and success of BBEdit. They’re all listed in the about box; choose “About BBEdit...” from the Apple menu to see their names. Without the assistance of all of these people, BBEdit would not exist. Rich Siegel October 18, 1993