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  • I've found BBEdit to easily surpass Textpad in almost every way so far - what about it don't you like?

    • I don't know where to start, it's all wrong! No tabs! No good at configurable indenting! Many many other things! And the HTML heritage bears heavily...

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      -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]

      • BBEdit has been around a lot longer than it has been used for HTML, and I don't think you could point at much of significance that you would use for coding that comes directly from its HTML features.

        BBEdit is not perfect, but it is the best editor out there, bar none. :)

        • When I tried it half the menus were covered with HTML-related stuff. Perhaps that's changed, and perhaps they can be removed. It doesn't give a first good impression. On second impression, I found a shortage of shortcuts to navigate around text. Again, probably configurable but points to a more mouse-oriented approach which I dislike (a general reproach for most things Mac it would seem -- I tend to expect at the very least Ctrl-arrow, Ctrl-Shift-arrow, Ctrl-Backspace-arrow, Ctrl-Del-Arrow where "arrow"

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          -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]

          • When I tried it half the menus were covered with HTML-related stuff.

            You may have been using Bizarro BBEdit ... only one of the menus is related to HTML, the one called "Markup". And you can even turn it off, last I checked. And it was never more than that. There are a few other places in the menus where you may see HTML stuff (like under Window -> Palettes), but that is about it for menus.

            A good 1/4 - 1/3 of the Preferences are related to HTML, but those can be ignored if you don't use it for HTML.

            • The strict minimum I need for text navigation is:

                jump word
                end/start-line
                select word
                select to end/start-line
                select line
                jump to matching bracket
                select brackets inner
                select brackets outer
                jump paragraph
                select paragraph
                select inter-paragraph
                end/start-file
                select to end/start-file
                select-page-up/down
                delete-word
                backspace-word
                delete to start/end of line

              I've probably forgot a few, but witho

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              -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]

              • Re:BBEdit (Score:2)

                by pudge (1) on 2003.06.24 10:07 (#21371) Homepage Journal
                Some of those are handled using standard Mac OS key commands. For example, opt-arrow jumps words, and opt-shift-arrow selects words as you jump (shift selects, remember that you can usually add shift to a function to select whatever you are doing).
                Some of them may not be supported by Mac OS standards or by BBEdit's basic functionality, but BBEdit also has an emacs mode, where it supports all emacs key commands ... of course, we know how you feel about emacs. :-)

                • Yes, I didn't say there were none of them! Default win/lin OS settings don't have enough to my taste either (I tend to want to use those anywhere I can type text in). Thankfully Textpad and Kate solve that nicely.

                  I saw that Qt/Mac was just release (yay!). I'll see if I can get Kate running after work :)

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                  -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]

                  • Yes, I didn't say there were none of them!

                    I am saying that with emacs mode turned on, I am fairly certain ALL of them are supported.

                    • Yes, but then I never managed to remeber how many chickens to sacrifice... I have a terrible memory like that.

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                      -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]

                    • But that is a lot of functions you mentioned ... I don't know how you could memorize all of them in any case if you have a problem memorizing them for emacs.

                    • They're all consistent, using always the same modifiers combination (and only Ctrl and Shift), with "obvious" special keys arrows, end, home, pg-up, pg-down, and backspace, del.

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                      -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]

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