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- What's New in BBEdit 4.5
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-
- This document describes the feature enhancements that are present in the
- current release of BBEdit, including features that distinguish the
- current "major" (4.5) release from the previous (4.0) release of BBEdit.
-
- BBEdit 4.5 incorporates the following improvements:
-
- The BBEdit Table Builder
- --- ------ ----- -------
- The standard BBEdit distribution now includes the "BBEdit Table
- Builder", a visual table-editing application. The Table Builder gives
- you the ability to create and edit HTML tables graphically. It is also
- integrated with BBEdit, so that you can easily create tables using a
- combination of textual and graphical editing approaches.
-
- The HTML Tools palette features a "Table Builder" button; when you click
- on this button, the selected table is sent to the BBEdit Table Builder
- for editing.
-
- Improved HTML Tools
- -------- ---- -----
- The BBEdit HTML tools have been extensively revised and refined.
- Performance and reliability have been significantly improved in all
- areas, and some user interface refinements have been made.
-
-
- Reorganized "New" Commands
- ----------- ----- --------
- The various "New" commands (which were previously distributed across an
- assortment of menus) have been gathered into a single "New" submenu.
- (Note that your reflexes will still work: Command-N still creates a new
- editing window, and you can still choose the first command from the File
- menu to create a new editing window.)
-
- New Preferences
- --- -----------
- the Preferences dialog has been reorganized and enhanced. There is now a
- "Languages" panel which contains settings for assigning languages to
- file suffixes. These settings were previously part of the "Function
- Popup" preferences panel. In addition, you can now set languages for
- files that have no suffixes (the "no suffix" setting), as well as for
- files that have a suffix, but which don't match any of the established
- settings (the "default" setting).
-
- In addition, there is now a "Web Browsers" setting, which enables you to
- manipulate the list of Web browsers available to the HTML tools
- "Preview" command.
-
- Finally, the "Backup" preferences panel gives you the ability to set a
- backup location for all files. Please note that files created by
- previous versions of BBEdit which contain their own backup settings will
- continue to use those settings; you may use the "Backup Options..."
- command on the File menu to change this.
-
- MacOS 8 Support
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- BBEdit 4.5 supports MacOS 8 contextual menus. To see the contextual
- menus in action under MacOS 8, make a text selection in an editing or
- browser window, hold down the Control key, and click on the selected
- text. A menu will pop up, giving you access to tools for performing
- specialized operations on the selection. In group windows and disk
- browsers, you can control-click on a file to pop up a contextual menu
- for operating on that file.
-
- If you create a clipping file by dragging a text selection to the MacOS
- 8 Finder, the clipping file will be named "BBEdit text clipping" to
- identify its origin.
-
- Tools List Window
- ----- ---- ------
- A single "BBEdit Tools" floating window replaces the collection of
- floating windows in previous releases of BBEdit. This window presents a
- hierarchical list of installed BBEdit tools. You can use the "Set
- Key..." button to assign a keyboard equivalent to a selected tool, or
- the "Run" button to run that tool.
-
- Browser Window Improvements
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- The appearance of browser windows (disk, glossary, project, compile
- errors, search results) has been refined to be more usable and to occupy
- less screen area. All browser windows offer a function popup (to
- navigate files without opening them), options popup (to control
- display), path popup (to navigate the path to the file), and the Get
- Info icon.
-
- Improved Grep Pattern Storage
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- Grep patterns are now stored in a "BBEdit Grep Patterns" text file in
- your Preferences folder. This ensures that Grep patterns are preserved
- even if you discard your BBEdit Preferences file.
-
- Copy to FTP Server
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- The "Save a Copy to FTP Server..." command has been added to the File
- menu. This command will save the front window to the desired FTP server,
- but will not relocate the file. In that sense, it is the FTP analog of
- "Save a Copy As...".
-
- The following features in BBEdit 4.5 were added after the original release
- of BBEdit 4.0:
-
- Editing via FTP
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- BBEdit features two commands on the File menu: "Open from FTP Server"
- and "Save to FTP Server". These commands make it easy to edit text files
- residing on a remote FTP server (including Web servers which are
- accessible via FTP).
-
- Multiple Undo
- -------- ----
- BBEdit gives you the ability to undo more than just the last change you
- made to a file. Because the "Undo" command no longer changes to "Redo"
- when you have undone an action, there is a new "Redo" command on the
- Edit menu. To reverse the effects of an Undo, choose the "Redo" command.
-
- Startup Items
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- When it starts up, BBEdit will look for a folder named “BBEdit Startup
- Items” in the same folder as the BBEdit application file. If it finds
- such a folder, BBEdit will open any documents it finds in that folder.
-
- If you place a text file, picture file, or BBEdit file group in this
- folder, BBEdit will open a document window appropriate to that document.
-
- If you place a compiled OSA (AppleScript, or any other OSA-compliant
- scripting language) script in this folder, BBEdit will execute the
- script.
-
- If you place any other type of document in this folder, BBEdit will ask
- the Finder to open the document.
-
- If you wish, you may place the actual BBEdit Startup Items folder in any
- convenient location, create an alias to it, and place the resulting
- alias in the same folder as the BBEdit application file. Having done so,
- be sure to change the name of the alias to "BBEdit Startup Items" so
- that BBEdit can properly locate it.
-
- =end=
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