Kristopher Browne · @krisbrowne42
20 followers · 612 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

After breaking up with emacs, I’ve been floating around the realm of macOS text editors to decide what to invest in… It was down to .app and and I finally shelled out for BBedit… Why that one? App Store distribution/sandboxing was the actual deciding factor… Though the fact that Panic has been slowly dropping support for my platform of choice (iPad), and many legacy Mac apps, definitely influenced me.

#nova #bbedit

Last updated 1 year ago

Collin Donnell · @collin
1476 followers · 3964 posts · Server ruby.social

I really wish every app had a "Restore Defaults" button in its settings like . This would really useful in System Settings in particular.

#bbedit

Last updated 1 year ago

Irene · @elmerot
106 followers · 981 posts · Server mastodon.nu

@fade rules! Couldn't have a professional life without it. If the postage wasn't a pain, I'd even get their t-shirts.

#bbedit

Last updated 1 year ago

Collin Donnell · @collin
1451 followers · 3669 posts · Server ruby.social

Lint the current document with Rubocop and show issues in a results window.

gist.github.com/collindonnell/

#bbedit #ruby

Last updated 1 year ago

Tim · @ezwal
60 followers · 434 posts · Server social.lol

I started using a few years after using mutt full time for email.

Moving to jobs with an ‘enterprise’ environment finally killed my mutt usage. I continued to use vim during those dark 7 years that I had to use windows at work.

Once I started doing a lot less analysis and more knowledge mgmt, I started to struggle to keep my notes in vim in a way that made sense. I returned to after a 10 year absence.

Still use vim for server maintenance and nasty text munging.

#vim #bbedit

Last updated 1 year ago

Dr Robert N. Winter · @robert
588 followers · 1499 posts · Server social.winter.ink

@ellane @aboutgrau I’ll second that regarding use cases.

Back when I wrote code for a living, was my daily driver. But since my writing has become long form and invariably needing to be referenced, and more recently are my go to applications.

#bbedit #zettlr #obsidian

Last updated 1 year ago

Jaharmi · @jaharmi
114 followers · 1101 posts · Server fosstodon.org

@jslr I generally take notes in text file windows in various editors. (The windows may or may not get saved to files, ahem .) I’ve been using for a few months — enough to appreciate some of its linking and data management/query capabilities. I throw a bunch into @drafts. I’ve also used .

#bbedit #logseq #ulysses

Last updated 1 year ago

Chris J. Karr · @chris
127 followers · 1367 posts · Server omgwars.com

@elebertus

I used VIM when I'm in a terminal.

BBEdit when I'm not. I've been using both for a quarter century each.

BBEdit is my workhorse editor, but I do like some of the organization features of VS Code for some projects (like the ones you mention).

Might be enough to get me over to Windows again as a developer. Last time I tried that, some features were still missing (which VS Code provides now).

#vim #bbedit #vscode

Last updated 1 year ago

Mark Gardner ‍:sdf: · @mjgardner
703 followers · 4754 posts · Server social.sdf.org

@bitsavers @ceejbot What did @bbedit eshittify after v12.1.6 (the last to run under )? barebones.com/support/bbedit/u

You’re really missing out on things like pattern playgrounds, a separate notes window, support, and buckets of other improvements.

AFAIK the only -“inflicted” change was sandboxing so that it could also be sold on the , but I don’t think that changed much user-facing functionality.

#macos #elcapitan #regex #lsp #apple #security #bbedit #appstore

Last updated 1 year ago

just mph :prami: · @mph
499 followers · 1821 posts · Server social.lol

Daily notes for 2023-06-25
How to mix todos and prose. An Obsidian Today page. Woeful MetaTalk. Getting ready to say goodbye to Apollo. Markdown blogging. BBEdit and LSP. Goodbye reMarkable.


mike.puddingtime.org/posts/202

#daily #obsidian #metafilter #apollo #markdown #bbedit #remarkable

Last updated 1 year ago

just mph :prami: · @mph
499 followers · 1821 posts · Server social.lol

Has anyone out there got support working on ? I've got (Markdown) and (Ruby) installed, BBEdit is giving me a green "ready to start server" indicator in the language config & its language server logs are showing me pretty normal-looking "server started" stuff.

Validated both Marksman and Solargraph using Emacs' LSP mode (and with eglot).

With BBEdit it's just ... nothin'. The little LSP indicator sits gray, doesn't respond to nonsense, etc.

#lsp #bbedit #marksman #solargraph

Last updated 1 year ago

Mark Gardner ‍:sdf: · @mjgardner
678 followers · 4277 posts · Server social.sdf.org

Congratulations @siegel and @bbedit for another great feature story on the . "Where Respect Is Due," indeed!

apps.apple.com/us/story/id1435

Here are some earlier stories:

• Why it's the of choice for , , , and more: apps.apple.com/us/story/id1433

• Tips for prose : apps.apple.com/us/story/id1451

• Learn and experiment with for finding and modifying text in your actual work—safely! apps.apple.com/us/story/id1485

#mac #appstore #bbedit #texteditor #coding #writing #datascience #writers #regularexpressions #regex #regexes

Last updated 1 year ago

Tito Ciuro · @titociuro
69 followers · 662 posts · Server mstdn.social

I’ve always heard amazing comments about . It really does everything but coffee, but how does one get to master the tool? Seriously, the sheer number of features it covers is mind boggling.

#bbedit

Last updated 1 year ago

Mark Gardner ‍:sdf: · @mjgardner
620 followers · 3543 posts · Server social.sdf.org

@randomgeek $work has me using instead of my favored , and it’s okay. The remote dev stuff is pretty slick, and of course since it’s so damn popular the plugins automate what would ordinarily be more manual customizations elsewhere.

Kinda wish now that @bbedit would embrace a similar plug-in model with an in-app directory instead of requiring manual dropping of custom scripts and configs in various places.

#vscode #bbedit

Last updated 1 year ago

@990000@mstdn.social · @990000
256 followers · 2226 posts · Server mstdn.social

Damn, I’m feeling some deep nostalgia right now of using Mac OS 9 and BBEdit to build some of my first web pages back in the day. 😭 I remember after first learning HTML on Windows one of my first web gigs was writing HTML for this small company in Chelsea which was the first time I used a Mac I think? I can barely remember.

#Apple #bbedit #macos9

Last updated 2 years ago

Pat Govan · @patgov
0 followers · 15 posts · Server iosdev.space

I would like to use for scripting and testing algorithm. Does any one have suggestion on how to get started using with . Can any one share functions , clippings, Markdown , etc...

#bbedit #swift

Last updated 2 years ago

Jean-Christophe Helary · @jchelary
108 followers · 320 posts · Server emacs.ch

@AdamBishop If I compare it to the standard "out of the box" text editor that we have on macOS, it works extremely well with files (finds errors, etc.) I use it all the time to check weird data for ex.

It's also not too bad at editing/authoring such XML files and so I used it to rewrite the sources of OmegaT's manual for ex., for that, it comes with tag completion, syntax coloring, etc.

So, that's something I really could not do with that standard macOS text editor.

If I compare it with the defacto pro-editor on macOS (), it comes with less fun regex but everything I mentioned above stands.

But then, it comes with a really nice writing environment called "org-mode" (modes are basically applications within Emacs and do all sort of things that a bare bones text editor can't do). I use org-mode all the time to write. org-mode comes with something that "captures" notes so that you can just write down stuff that come to your mind and store that in a side "location" without losing your focus, and then you can reorganize all your stuff when you have time.

If you come from VI, you have a VI typing mode with all the VI shortcuts, if you come from Windows, you have something like that too.

Think of it as a lisp virtual machine that comes with an editor and a thousand applications that deal with textual data (but not only).

#xml #tmx #docbook #bbedit #emacslisp

Last updated 2 years ago

Collin Donnell · @collin
1270 followers · 2447 posts · Server ruby.social

@vito Ruby in Nova has the same problems everything that relies on Solargraph does. If you don’t care about auto complete or diving into gems or any of that, you can pretty much use anything I feel like?

If that’s the case I’d just use and together, since they are both Mac assed Mac apps that excel in different areas.

I do think there is a lot of value in code discovery tools, autocomplete and a good debugger though.

#nova #bbedit

Last updated 2 years ago

Mark Gardner ‍:sdf: · @mjgardner
590 followers · 3159 posts · Server social.sdf.org

@mos_8502 IMHO the best “ way of doing shit” editor is . is about as un--like you can get in an editor and still have a GUI.

Panes of scrollable nonstandard settings widgets that sometimes drop you into a JSON editor? Having to do all but the basics from a type-in command bar? No dictionary? 🤮

Trust me, try @bbedit’s full features for 30 days, then either pay or keep using the (pretty extensive) free features forever.

#macos #bbedit #vscode #mac #applescript

Last updated 2 years ago

Frank Blome · @fblome
32 followers · 8 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

is still my #1 choice among editors on ! Sure there are many other good ones, but when it comes to productive use of software, you can see its strengths in problem cases. Yesterday the team of @bbedit (@bbedit) proved it again in record time!

This is how support has to go!

#bbedit #macos

Last updated 2 years ago