[ANN] BBEdit 10.5.6 (3317) 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/CuqJKNdqWOg/nNp7vd73j90J>.

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 (3317) (2013-10-13)

Additions
---------

o (none in this build)

Changes
-------

o (none in this build)

Fixes
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* Made some performance improvements to ctags file loading and
interpretation. This should speed up first-time hits when
opening a file for which tags are available, as well as other
operations (such as ctags-based completion and navigation).

* Made a change to prevent ctags discovery from delaying file opens.

* Made changes to the language module loader to improve
application startup performance.

* Fixed a startup performance bug caused by the Preview
preferences wanting to know about every possible preview helper.

* Made a change to the Clippings subsystem to improve application
startup performance.

* Made internal changes to the HTML markup tools system to improve
application startup performance.

* Made internal application changes to improve startup performance.

* We no longer use QuickTime to read image files, instead relying
on `NSImage` for the heavy lifting. In the scripting dictionary,
the `QuickTime document` and `QuickTime window` classes
have been
renamed to `image document` and `image window`, but their
internal codes are unchanged to preserve script compatibility.

* Use `[NSCursor IBeamCursor]` to resolve appearance problems on
dark backgrounds and Retina displays. For better or worse, it'll
now look the same as every other AppKit application.

* [279569] Finder admin data files (`Icon\r` and `.DS_Store`)
files are now ignored during multi-file search or Text Factory
operations.

* [NFR] [279546] Fixed crash in language mapping which could occur
if a mapping existed that referred to a language module
that was
no longer installed.

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The package can be downloaded from our web server:

<http://pine.barebones.com/seeding/BBEdit-10.5.6_3317.dmg>

Enjoy,

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