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This document summarizes the functional differences between BBEdit 3.1.2 and the original BBEdit 3.1 release. The changes listed first are significant and material changes to the product’s feature set, and so this document should be considered an addendum to the User Manual; the appropriate chapter is referenced for your convenience. To quickly navigate to different parts of this document, choose one of the items from the “Mark” menu. New Capabilities === ============ Quickdraw GX Printing (“Working with Files”) --------- -- -------- ---------------------- BBEdit now supports the Quickdraw GX printing architecture. The practical result of this is that you can now easily print BBEdit documents by dragging them to a desktop printer, and you can take advantage of the advanced print-job-control features that Quickdraw GX offers. The support for Quickdraw GX does not significantly affect the way you work with BBEdit - the “Page Setup” and “Print” commands work as they always have; however, BBEdit will present the Quickdraw GX print dialogs instead of the older-style dialogs shown previously. The limitations listed below apply when using Quickdraw GX printing from BBEdit. We are working to remove these limitations, and the changes will be incorporated into the next maintenance revision of BBEdit 3.1, or into the next major product release of BBEdit, whichever comes first: - Printing options are not available from within the print job dialog; you will need to set up the print options before printing, using the “Printing Options” command found on the Edit menu. To set the printing font outside of the print job dialog, hold down the Option key while pulling down the “Text” menu: “Font & Tabs...” will change to “Printing Font...”, and you can use this command to set the font to be used when printing. - There appears to be a bug in the Quickdraw GX imaging system that will cause icons printed as part of browser lists to be clipped. We are working with Apple to resolve this (cosmetic-only) problem. Internet Integration (new chapter) -------- ----------- ------------- BBEdit features the new and powerful ability to make use of Internet “helper” applications such as news readers, FTP clients, and World Wide Web browsers (such as NetScape or MacWEB). BBEdit 3.1.2 uses the “Internet Config” utility to manage the interaction with these helper applications. Internet Config 1.0 is supplied on the latest pressing of the BBEdit 3.1 CD-ROM, and is also available for anonymous FTP from a variety of sources. Some likely URLs are given here: ftp://amug.org/pub/peterlewis/ ftp://redback.cs.uwa.edu.au/Others/PeterLewis/ ftp://ftp.share.com/peterlewis ftp://ftp.nig.ac.jp/pub/mac/PeterLewis/ ftp://nic.switch.ch/software/mac/peterlewis/ In these locations, you’ll also find useful Internet and other utilities by Peter Lewis. If you’re updating from BBEdit 3.1 to BBEdit 3.1.2, you can activate the Internet Config integration by bringing up the “Preferences” dialog, going to the “Services” page, and activating the “Internet Config” switch. You will then need to quit and re-launch BBEdit for this change to take effect. Once you have done so, a new Internet menu will appear immediately to the right of the Windows menu. The commands on this menu are as follows: - Open Internet Config: Choose this command to launch the “Internet Config” application, so that you can set your Internet-specific options (such as helper applications, default signature, and so on). - News Reader, Mail Client, FTP Client, Web Browser, and Telnet Client: These menu commands correspond to “helper” applications that you’ve previously designated with the Internet Config application. If a helper application hasn’t been selected, or if the helper application is not present on any mounted volume, the corresponding menu command will be disabled. Choose one of these commands to launch the corresponding “helper” application. Note: BBEdit 3.1 does not presently support use of a Gopher Client package. Support for this will be added in future releases. - Resolve URL: Use this menu command to resolve a Uniform Resource Locator that is embedded in a text file (such as the URLs given above). There is no need to select the entire URL; simply place the insertion point anywhere in the URL, and choose “Resolve URL.” BBEdit will scan the URL, determine the entire extent, and use the appropriate helper application to resolve it. If necessary, BBEdit will launch the helper application. If the URL is not valid, or BBEdit is not able to launch the appropriate helper application, BBEdit will beep. Easter Egg: as a shortcut, hold down the Command key and click anywhere in a URL, and BBEdit will resolve it as described above. Note: Some Web browsers cannot properly resolve URLs if the request to resolve a URL is sent when the browser is starting up. If your Web browser doesn’t properly resolve the URL, wait until it has finished starting up, and try again. Bare Bones Software gratefully acknowledges John Norstad for providing the URL parsing code. - View HTML File: If the front editing window is an HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language) document, choose “View HTML File”, and BBEdit will instruct your chosen Web browser to open the document and interpret its contents as HTML. In order for BBEdit to recognize the file as HTML, its name must end with the “.html” suffix. If the front window is not an HTML document, or the chosen Web browser is not available, this menu command will be disabled. If you’re editing the HTML file and have not yet saved changes, BBEdit will prompt you to do so. This is because the Web browsers will read the file’s contents directly from disk. Support for Kodex ------- --- ----- Kodex is a new programmer’s utility which provides the ability to print source files with special formatting options. Kodex is shareware; an unregistered copy is supplied on the BBEdit 3.1.1 CD-ROM for your convenience. If you’re updating from BBEdit 3.1, you can obtain Kodex from its home at the following URL: ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/jscho/ Kodex is also available from the Info-Mac archives; check a mirror near you. To use Kodex with BBEdit, first make sure that the “Kodex” switch in the “Services” section of the Preferences dialog is turned on. (After turning on this option, you will need to quit and re-launch BBEdit for the change to take effect.) To print a file using Kodex, hold down the Option key while pulling down the File menu; the “Print One Copy” command will become “Print with Kodex”. You can also type Command-Shift-Option-P to choose this command. NOTE: Unregistered copies of Kodex will bring up a “splash screen” dialog when they launch. To avoid this dialog, pay the shareware fee to register your copy of Kodex. BBEdit brings Kodex to the front when printing; after Kodex has completed printing, click on a BBEdit window or choose BBEdit’s name from your application switch menu to bring BBEdit to the front. Performance Improvements =========== ============ The performance of soft wrapping has been improved; when wrapping to a pixel value (such as to the window width, or to the philip bar), text reflow will be up to five times faster than previously. Typing performance has been improved on slower (25MHz ‘030 or less) machines. Minor Improvements ===== ============ The incremental changes listed here were made in direct response to customer feedback. Print One Copy (“Working with Files”) ----- --- ---- ---------------------- This command, found on the File menu, will print a single copy of the entire contents of the front window, without presenting a print-job dialog. You can also type Command-Shift-P to Print One Copy. Text Info (“Editing Text with BBEdit”) ---- ---- ---------------------------- In order to improve performance, the “Get Info” command on the Windows menu has been split into two commands: “Get Info” and “Text Info”. The “Get Info” command will show the memory footprint, full pathname, and page count of the front document. The “Text Info” command shows detailed word, line, and character count information. Text Info is useful for quickly determining the textual statistics of a document, since it avoids the overhead of paginating the document. Clicking on the “I-in-a-diamond” icon in an editing window’s status bar will now bring up the “Text Info” dialog. Glossary Improvements (“Browsers”) -------- ------------ ------------ BBEdit will now display a glossary item’s key equivalent (if any), next to the item’s name in the Glossary browser. Two new substitution strings have been added to the glossary’s set of substitutions: - If the glossary entry is being inserted into a source file, the string “#function#” will be replaced with the name of the function containing the current insertion point. - The string “#clipboard#” will be replaced with the current contents of the Clipboard. - BBEdit now allows the use of function keys and numeric keys when defining keyboard equivalents for glossary entries. Unlocking Files with the Pencil (“Editing Text with BBEdit”) --------- ----- ---- --- ------ ---------------------------- You can now use the Pencil icon in the window’s status bar to unlock a file which has been locked with a software lock in the Finder. If the pencil indicates a read-only file, and the file has been Finder-locked, you can unlock the file by clicking on the pencil. BBEdit will present an alert so that you can confirm this action; to skip the alert, hold down the Option key when clicking on the pencil. Multi-File Search Preferences (“Preferences”) ---------- ------ ----------- --------------- Several preferences have been added to the “Text Search” section of the Preferences dialog. Specifically: - “Batch Find”, “Search Nested Folders”, and “Skip (...) Folders” establish the defaults for the corresponding settings in the Multi-File Search Options section of the Find dialog. - The “File Type” popup establishes the default file type for the corresponding popup un the Multi-File Search Options section of the Find dialog. Changes to these settings will take effect the next time BBEdit is launched. Shift-Key Startup Bypass --------- ------- ------ When starting up BBEdit, you can now hold down the Shift key to suppress all external services: development-system interfaces, BBEdit extensions, PowerTalk, XTND, and so forth. This can be handy when diagnosing a problem that keeps BBEdit from starting up, or if you just want to start BBEdit as quickly as possible and with minimal memory footprint. The “Make” Command --- ------ ------- The “Make” command under the compilers menu previously had no effect. As of BBEdit 3.1.2, this command is named “Build Project”. When running under CodeWarrior, choosing this command has the same effect as choosing “Make” from CodeWarrior’s Project menu; when using the THINK Project Manager or Rainbow, choosing “Build Project” will have the same effect as choosing “Build Application”. Aliases to Extensions ------- -- ---------- BBEdit will now resolve aliases to individual extensions when scanning the “BBEdit Extensions” folder. Although intended primarily to ease the extension development cycle, this capability can be used as a mechanism to share extensions that are placed in a central repository. Fixes and Improvements ===== === ============ The following bug fixes and minor improvements are incorporated in BBEdit 3.1.2. Items are listed in no particular order. - When printing, BBEdit now properly recognizes form-feed characters in soft-wrapped documents, and will refrain from occasionally adding a spurious extra character at the end of printed output of soft-wrapped documents. - Auto-indent is now faster; the performance improvements are most noticeable on slower machines when typing at the beginning of large files. - Soft-wrapping to window width or to the Philip bar is now more accurate when wrapping text written in a proportional font with many ‘narrow’ characters. - Fixed crash which would occur after using Option-Delete or Cmd-Delete. - The “Open Several” dialog (also used by the Concatenate Files extension) is now more responsive after selecting a file with a long name. - BBEdit works around a bug in older machines (SE/30, for example) which would cause a crash when Cmd-O was typed in any dialog. - The “Bottom” switch (under “Leave Room for Finder”, in the Windows section of the Preferences dialog) is now honored when zooming windows. - The “Prefix/Suffix Lines” extension has been improved: it is now much faster, works correctly when performing deletions, and no longer causes the “can’t be undone” alert. - BBEdit now uses the de facto standard ‘MPSR’ resource format for saving state information; state info which is BBEdit-specific is now stored in a separate ‘BBST’ resource. Note that if you open a newer file in an older version of BBEdit, the version of BBEdit will report the file as having been saved with MPW resource information. - BBEdit now properly sets the type and creator codes whenever saving a letter as “Text Only” and overwriting another letter on disk. - The function popup has been improved; it now properly handles declarations inside of an “extern “C” {...}” construct, and handles C type declarations which make use of the ‘far’ keyword. - BBEdit will now properly recalibrate the vertical scrollbar in situations when a single replace operation changes the number of lines in the document. - Fixed crash which would occur when trying to start up ToolServer with tab stops set as the default. - The “Open Several” startup preference is now honored. - In some situations, BBEdit would exhibit display glitches after saving a soft-wrapped document with non-Mac line-breaking conventions. This has been fixed. - BBEdit will now work correctly with Toolbox Assistant. - In some situations, open source files would be erroneously identified as belonging to the open CodeWarrior project; this has been corrected. - Adjusted minimum and preferred partition sizes to account for PowerPC code overhead induced by the system. The sizes can be reduced by 90K when running on a 68K machine. - The “display font size” property of an editing window is now a short integer, which is much easier to script than a Fixed. The following bug fixes and minor improvements were incorporated in BBEdit 3.1.1. Items are listed in no particular order. - The “BBEdit Power 3.1” file is now about 10K smaller, thanks to some code tuning and compiler-generated optimizations. - The usability of BBEdit’s AppleScript services has been generally improved. - The “Can’t Undo” warning message for the “Detab” command is now correct. - Multi-file search and replace operations will now behave more reliably when memory is low. - You can now use the Page Up, Page Down, Home, and End keys as shortcuts to scroll through the file lists in various browser windows. - The popup menu of available search folders is now correctly sized, and items are correctly check-marked in the Multi-File Search Options section of the Find... dialog. - All multi-file search and replace operations can now be done in the background, and progress indications have generally been improved during multi-file search and replace operations. - In some situations, drag and drop to move text within the same window would cause BBEdit to hang. - The Projector information icon is now correctly enabled in project browser windows when a file containing a ‘ckid’ resource is selected. - In previous versions of BBEdit, Undo of an Option-Drag (duplicate) of text would not function correctly. It does now. - In previous versions of BBEdit, the “word count” and “number of lines” properties of a window were not functional. You can now access these properties via AppleScript, as in: get the word count of window “3.1 Release Notes” get the number of lines of window “3.1 Release Notes” - The following window properties are now accessible and/or settable in the proper contexts: window text selected text saved state - The “Change Case” command now works properly on all systems, including those that have a pre-7.1 version of the Script Manager. In BBEdit 3.1, Change Case would have no effect when running on a system version prior to 7.1. - If a bottom pane of a split window is active, BBEdit will now scroll the text of the bottom pane properly when the window is unsplit. - Previously, BBEdit would reset the window’s tab width to 4 when splitting a window; this no longer happens. - Previously, BBEdit would hang bringing up the Find dialog if a form-feed (ASCII 12) character was present in the search string. - With some inputs, Find Differences would get stuck in a loop until running out of memory; this has been corrected. - BBEdit will now handle and respond to Apple Events, including scripting commands, that arrive while a dialog is on the screen. Previously, BBEdit would drop such events, which would often lead to system deadlock while the sending application waited for a reply which would never arrive. - BBEdit will now use the subject of a PowerTalk letter as the title of the document window when opening a letter from the In Tray or Out Tray. - BBEdit will no longer issue the “File xxx is currently open” alert; if you attempt to open a file that is already open in another window, that window will be brought forward. - BBEdit will now present a progress dialog when performing multi-file comparisons. - You should now be able to drag all types of PowerTalk letters onto BBEdit’s icon to open them. (You will need to rebuild your desktop, or use Save A BNDL or a similar utility.) - When performing a “Verify” operation (see the “Filing” section of the Preferences dialog), BBEdit will now properly re-convert line breaks if necessary. - After BBEdit 3.1 went to press, the project format for Metrowerks CodeWarrior projects changed for CW5. BBEdit 3.1.2 accounts for this change (and will still be able to read CW4 projects). - “Save as Selection” now works correctly with PowerTalk letters. - Fixed a bug in which BBEdit would run out of memory while handling scripts containing large numbers of “get” events. - BBEdit will now issue a “not enough memory” alert when trying to copy a selection larger than available memory, rather than taking its “emergency exit”. - When starting up, BBEdit now makes more room for the XTND system to start up, so that it’s less likely to run out of memory. This should eliminate occurrences of the “BBEdit has run out of memory” alert when trying to launch BBEdit. - BBEdit’s minimum partition has been increased to 512K. - The “Soft Wrap Letters” setting is now correctly observed when replying to PowerTalk mail messages within BBEdit. - Fixed bug in which the “Selection Only” option in the Hard Wrap dialog would occasionally (and incorrectly) be turned off, even though a selection range was present. - In some circumstances, navigating through a soft-wrapped file with arrow keys would cause BBEdit to leave artifacts of the insertion bar behind. This will no longer happen. - When launching an application associated with an external service, BBEdit will now attempt to launch the application in its minimum partition before issuing a “not enough memory” alert; this is done in situations where there isn’t enough system memory to launch the application in its “preferred” partition size. - The Glossary browser display is now properly updated after BBEdit saves a file into the directory currently in view. - Browser windows have been cured of excessive flickering in the list portion of the browser window. - Previously, BBEdit would miss a suspend event when initiating a build with an external compiler; this has been corrected. - “Add Mailer” is now disabled when a browser window is in front. - eliminated flickering in browser windows when a browser window is activated/deactivated. - BBEdit now properly handles custom search paths in CodeWarrior projects. - Previously, BBEdit would take the saved-state and line break settings from the preferences when doing a “Save As...” on a new file. Those settings are now taken from the current window’s settings, which avoids confusion when the settings have been changed in a new window. - Grep is now 24-bit clean, and so the ^ and $ modifiers now work correctly on non-32-bit-capable machines when soft wrapping is engaged. - The PopupFuncs menu’s parsers incorporate improvements to Rez and Fortran parsing.