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BBEdit 4.5 Demo
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What’s New in BBEdit 4.5
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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