[ANN] BBEdit 10.5.6 (3329) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good { morning, afternoon, evening },

We're working on an update to BBEdit 10.5 to address a few
recently reported issues.

Note that this is a _pre-release_ version. The intent is to fix
bugs and address areas of improvement based on what our
customers have reported. However, since the software is at this
point not fully tested, there _may_ be bugs and regressions. If
this prospect makes you nervous, then sticking with the public
release versions is your best course of action. Nobody will be
offended if you choose to do so; you're under no obligation to
install and use anything but a public release. :-)

Following is a summary of the changes in the software since the
last pre-release build. The change notes are organized into
additions, changes, and fixes, and are annotated where
appropriate with case numbers. So if you recognize a number
corresponding to a support case that was opened for you, you can
now verify that it's been fixed correctly. Please take the time
to review the changes before using the new build -- it'll be
worth your time.

Change notes for the previous pre-release build are available
here: <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bbedit/f4cydFtmLJk/C8kDaz2gP1cJ>.

One final note: If you run into a bug in a pre-release version,
PLEASE DO NOT REPORT THE BUG TO THE LIST. This includes asking
about whether others have seen the same problem. Instead, please
send a bug report to <sup...@barebones.com> and we will deal
with it there. This will help us keep the list discussion on
topic and productive for all list members.

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version 10.5.6 (3329) (2013-11-07)

Additions
---------

o (none in this build)

Changes
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o (none in this build)

Fixes
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* [282016, 282114] Fixed bug in which changing an existing
document's name
in the process of saving it on an FTP/SFTP server, or using
"Save As" to
make a local copy of a file opened from an FTP/SFTP server,
would fail to
update the window's title accordingly.

* The View -> Text Display menu gets a new option at the end:
"Split/Unsplit Text View". If enabled, choosing this
command operates
like double-clicking on the split bar at the top of a text view's
vertical scrollbar. Note that the command is also a
convenient place to
attach a keyboard equivalent for this purpose.

* [282329] Straightened the code path between the color panel
and text
views, and eliminated unnecessary color space changes which
could affect
the outcome of dragging colors from the color panel to an
text view.

* Hex Dump just got made wicked fast. You're welcome.

* [264287] There is a new expert preference:
`PrecomposeUnicodeWhenPasting`. This is useful in situations
where you frequently bring in text that contains combining
Unicode characters from external sources (such as PDFs generated
on other platforms), and need to crush two combining characters
into one composed character where possible. This is *not* a generalized
need, but if you run into it often enough, turning on the
expert preference
will save you some work:

`defaults write com.barebones.bbedit
PrecomposeUnicodeWhenPasting -bool YES`

(Despite the name, the precomposition is done when BBEdit imports
the Clipboard from other applications, not when the paste is
actually done.)

Note that this requires an additional copy of the Clipboard
when the
application imports the text, and for very large pastes,
there may
be a noticeable delay while the text gets precomposed.
Thus, you
should only turn on this setting when you are frequently working
with text that contains combining Unicode characters.

* [281743] Worked around a bug in the OS
(`rdar://problem/15313924`) in
which files opened from remote file systems would, for some client/server
combinations, open empty even though the file was decidedly
not empty.
This symptom appeared only when running on OS X 10.9.

=end=

The package can be downloaded from our web server:

<http://pine.barebones.com/seeding/BBEdit-10.5.6_3329.dmg>

Enjoy,

R.
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Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc.
<sie...@barebones.com> <http://www.barebones.com/>