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- What╒s New in BBEdit Lite 4.0
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Recent Files
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- In the File menu, the ╥Open Recent╙ command gives quick access to the
- twelve most-recently-opened files.
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- 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.
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- Updated Extensions
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- Several of the BBEdit extensions included in the BBEdit Lite
- distribution package have been improved and upgraded:
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- - The ╥827╙ extension has been renamed ╥Convert to ASCII╙, to more
- accurately reflect this tool╒s function;
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- - 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).
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- - the behavior of Prefix/Suffix Lines has now been corrected in
- several instances.
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- 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.
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- ╥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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.)
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.)
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- 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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