![]() ![]() ![]() When I returned to the Mac in 2004-2005, I also returned to BBEdit. Although I, too, started using it in the mid-90s, I had to drop it during my eight years as a Linux user. My history with BBEdit has been a little more complicated than Jason’s or Michael’s. And it’s in keeping with the Bare Bones motto: it doesn’t suck. That may seem like damning with faint praise, but if much of your professional time is spent using software (and I suspect that’s true for most of you), you know what a ringing endorsement it really is. Jason focused on just a few of the new features, column editing in particular, 1 and Michael gave what may be the best endorsement one could ever give an application:Īs a user, I appreciate that it pretty much never does anything to annoy me. ![]() And of course they’re not really reviewing the product as a whole. They’ve both been using BBEdit for over 20 years, so they can’t be accused of making snap judgments. So I smiled as I read Jason Snell’s and Michael Tsai’s reviews of BBEdit 12. A program with lots of features-especially one whose users will work with it every day, often for hours every day-can’t really be reviewed by someone who’s used it for only a few weeks. I’m usually wary of reviews of complex software.
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