[ANN] BBEdit 11

[Rich Siegel]

Good { morning, afternoon, evening },

We are pleased to announce the release and immediate
availability of BBEdit 11. This major upgrade adds over two
hundred new features, improvements to existing features, and
minor refinements.

Here are the high points, excerpted from the "What's New in
BBEdit 11" page at <http://www.barebones.com/>.

* **Improved syntax coloring** - The internal syntax coloring
mechanics have been extensively reworked, allowing for a much
greater selection of core color types, and now allowing language
modules to add their own color types. Support for color
schemes has
been expanded, and several factory color schemes are included.

* **New Clippings system mechanics** - The Clippings system
(used for
creating, managing, and applying frequently used "snippets"
of text)
is now even more powerful and flexible. Any clipping set
can be made
available universally or on a per-language basis (for any desired
set of languages). The Clippings palette, text completion system,
and the "Insert Clipping" command have been extended to
support this
additional flexibility.

* **New UI for Find Differences** - The "Find Differences"
dialog box
has been modernized, and folder comparisons are faster than ever,
thanks to a rewritten and newly performance-tuned
comparison engine.
The most significant changes are in the results interface, however:
an all-new single window presentation is much easier to use for
folder comparisons, is easier to manage, and (for folder
comparisons) provides the ability to copy files as needed
from one
folder to another.

* **Text Extraction** - This powerful addition to BBEdit's legendary
searching capabilities allows you to locate and collect search
results into a single text document. Extraction can be run
on the
active text document, or across multiple files and folders.

* **Numerous Editing Enhancements** - Many subtle but highly
productive editing features have been added, including (but
by no
means limited to):

* automatic highlighting of matching text (for a
selection, or the
word surrounding the insertion point)

* "Move Line Up", "Move Line Down", and "Delete Line" for easy
manipulation of the line containing the current
selection (or
multiple selected lines)

* "New Line Before" and "New Line After" commands for
even easier
composition

* **Extensive Internal Modernization** - Dialog boxes, floating
palettes, and many internal subsystems have been rewritten or
updated to support new features, improve performance, add
refinement, and make future enhancements possible.

You can read more about these, and many other changes in BBEdit
11, in the BBEdit 11 change notes: <http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/arch_bbedit11.html>

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Enjoy,

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

Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they
sedate me.