BBEdit 8.7.2 Release Notes

This page documents all feature enhancements and bug fixes included in the BBEdit 8.7.2 update.

For information on changes made in previous versions of BBEdit, please see the release notes archive.

For detailed information on using any of BBEdit’s features, please refer to the user manual (choose “User Manual” from BBEdit’s Help menu).

Requirements

BBEdit 8.7.2 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. If you’re still using Mac OS X 10.3.9, BBEdit 8.5.2 is the most recent version you will be able to run.

This version is a Universal application: it runs natively on both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs.

Additions

  • (none in this version)

Changes

  • When running on Mac OS X 10.5 or later, you can now scroll background windows with the scroll wheel or trackpad as appropriate.

Fixes

  • Fixed underlying cause of an occasional crash when bringing up the “Insert Clipping” panel.
  • Fixed occasional crash which could occur when closing an FTP browser window.
  • Fixed double-dispose in Find Definition.
  • Fixed bug in which the selection range was not correctly reset to {0,0} as it should have been if the file was changed behind BBEdit’s back.
  • Fixed a bug which could cause a crash when clicking the close widget on the last document in the documents drawer, or dragging the last document out of the documents drawer into another window.
  • Changed the collating order in FTP browser windows so that items whose names begin with a period will float to the top of the list.
  • Increased the default SFTP timeout to 20 seconds (up from 10).
  • Fixed bug in which the date printed was incorrect when printing page headers with the “Date Last Saved” option.
  • Corrected the acceptable types for “Open Files in BBEdit” Automator action and the autoopen variant so that they work correctly on Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5).
  • Fixed a bug where Perforce configurations created while the server was invisible might store a bad client root, resulting in P4 menu items being inappropriately disabled.
  • Fixed bug in which TeX syntax coloring would get out of whack if “Color Math Strings” was turned off and the scanner encountered certain constructs in the document.
  • Made a change to prevent the application from unexpectedly quitting when external forces interfere with the normal operation of the license panel.
  • Fixed bug in which the “Enable” and “Disable” buttons in the Text Encoding prefs were not properly enabled or disabled.
  • Fixed a bug where a drag which contained an NSColor and text would insert both, “duplicating” the color value, e.g. with drags from Color Picker Pro.
  • Applying a Text Factory to a single line selection no longer deletes the rest of the document.
  • Fixed bug in which the JavaScript function scanner could crash on certain malformed (usually because of in-progress edits) constructs.
  • Fixed bug in which SFTP bookmarks without a password would not be remembered across a quit/launch cycle.