Yay! BBEdit 8.0 has support for multiple documents within a single window!
I don’t know if my little concept had anything to do with it. I signed an NDA for them, but never heard anything after that or got any of the beta seeds.
I’ve just been testing it out and it’s extremely well done. You can drag files from one window to another, you can select files in the list and diff them. Big improvements!
Note: if you are buying BBEdit for the first time, don’t pay the $50 idiot tax. You can cross-upgrade from BBEdit Lite (their free version) for only $129.
UPDATE: If you’re trying to find your FTP Bookmarks after upgrading to the new version, you need to manually copy them from ~/Library/Preferences/BBEdit Preference/FTP Bookmarks to ~/Library/Preferences/com.barebones.bbedit.PreferenceData/FTP Bookmarks. I couldn’t find this anywhere in any release notes or manual. To look in the manual, I had to download an 8MB PDF file - shouldn’t that sort of thing be available online in HTML format?
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Christian adds this Comment:
Although BBEdit is nice, I’ve always found the price to be outrageous for a text editor. An OS I’ll pay $130 for, but not a text editor. At the end of the day, I ended up choosing SubEthaEdit.
August 30th, 2004 at 12:32 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
Most developers charge at least $50/hour. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to spend the pay from less than 3 hours of work on the tool you use to do the work.
August 30th, 2004 at 12:35 pm
Ryan adds this Comment:
Yep, I’ve been waiting for that feature for a long time. It gets crazy when you have 20 documents open in a project. Or worse yet two.
That two project thing is still a bit of a kicker. There should be some sort of folder hierarchy added to the drawer. Be cool if it would also list files that are not open as well - within a project. Maybe 8.1 if were lucky!
August 31st, 2004 at 9:17 pm
Ryan adds this Comment:
I’ve spent… hmmm
130 (5.? or 4.?) + 50 6.0 + 50 6.5 + 50 7.1 + 50 8.0
Hmmm $330 for an editor that hasn’t really made me money. Course, it could be lest. I really don’t remember the upgrade costs. Worth every penny though.
August 31st, 2004 at 9:20 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
You can open as many multi-document windows as you want. As I noted above, you can also move documents from one window to another.
August 31st, 2004 at 10:02 pm
Ryan adds this Comment:
Sure, but wouldn’t it be nice to have 1 window?
September 1st, 2004 at 2:45 pm
Alex adds this Comment:
:shrug: I actually like it this way.
September 1st, 2004 at 2:47 pm