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What was new in BBEdit 8?
BBEdit 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 introduced hundreds of new features, refinements and user interface improvements. Here are the highlights of the major feature additions and changes in BBEdit 8.2 from the previous upgrade version (BBEdit 7.1).
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Text Handling
- Automator Actions: use BBEdit’s legendary text processing power in any Automator Workflow <more>
- Text Factories: make short work of repetitive text-processing tasks—with no scripting or programming required. Quickly and easily build a series of transformations and apply them to any number of documents <more>
- Comprehensive Unicode support: BBEdit 8 features enhanced support for editing and processing Unicode text files, and can now easily work with documents written in multiple Unicode-represented languages <more>
Web Development
- Preview Server support: now you can even preview pages which use PHP, JSP, or other server-side processing techniques. <more>
- CSS Tool additions: support for CSS 2.1 including @media support and <more>
- Built-In HTML Tidy Tool: popular open source tool for cleaning HTML & XHTML now part of BBEdit <more>
- HTML Syntax Checker: now check page fragments and generated code and mark sections for the checker to skip <more>
Programming
- Enhanced Source Control Management: integrated support for the Subversion and Perforce source control management (SCM) systems allowing you to work with multiple repositories and many other enhancements to functionality <more>
- Codeless Language Modules: readily extensible syntax coloring support that even non-programmers can create <more>
- Exuberant Ctags support: BBEdit 8 provides easy access to indexes created by Exuberant Ctags <more>
- Integration with Affrus: tight integration between Affrus and BBEdit 8 for editing and debugging perl <more>
- Find Differences from anywhere: use BBEdit's file comparison from the command-line and from within your SCM of choice with “bbdiff” command-line tool <more>
UNIX & Admin
- Even more Unix integration: “bbedit” tool improvements <more>
Search
- Even better search: enhancements to multi-file searching flexibility and usability <more>
User Interface Enhancements & More
- Reduce screen clutter and work more efficiently: use the Documents Drawer and Navigation Bar to manage multiple documents in a single window <more>
- Customize your palette arrangements: use BBEdit 8.0's new Workspace feature to customize your window layout by task <more>
- Improved Spelling Checker: BBEdit 8 now uses the Mac OS X spelling checker <more>
Check out the full feature list for more details. For an exhaustive list of what's new, visit BBEdit's Current Release Notes.
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