[ANN] BBEdit 15.0

[Rich Siegel]

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Good { morning, afternoon, evening },

We are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 15.0. This major upgrade adds nearly two hundred new features, improvements to existing features, and minor refinements.

Here are the high points, excerpted from the "What's New in BBEdit 15" page at <https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit15.html>.

* Minimap

A new Minimap palette shows a high-level overview of the active text
document. This facilitates visualization of the document's overall
structure, as well as navigation within larger documents.

* Expandable “Cheat Sheets”

Building on the concept of the Grep Cheat Sheet used in its Find
windows, BBEdit 15 introduces the ability to create and use your own
Cheat Sheets, which are functional references for text markup and
editing. Included are cheat sheets for basic Markdown syntax and for
BBEdit's clippings placeholders.

* ChatGPT Worksheets

BBEdit 15’s joins BBEdit’s unique “worksheet” interface to ChatGPT,
so that you can have conversations with ChatGPT right in BBEdit
itself — no application switching or awkward copy/paste from a web
browser. Each chat worksheet that you create maintains its own
history, so that you can easily refer back to past conversations, or
keep a conversation going across an extended period of time.

* Project Workspace and Settings Improvements

BBEdit’s unique “Text Factory” feature has been reimagined for
version 15. All available transformations are listed for easy
access, and assembling a factory requires fewer steps. A new “Run
Unix Command” operation improves factory portability by storing the
Unix command in the factory itself.

* New Interface for Text Factories

BBEdit’s unique “Text Factory” feature has been reimagined for
version 15. All available transformations are listed for easy
access, and assembling a factory requires fewer steps. A new “Run
Unix Command” operation improves factory portability by storing the
Unix command in the factory itself.

...and much more.

We encourage you to read the complete change notes for BBEdit 15.0: <https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/notes-15.0.html>. (We spent a lot of time writing those notes, so it would be great for someone to read them. Be that someone.)

Here are some key details on pricing and upgrades for BBEdit 15:

* The price for a new single-user license is US$59.99.

* If you purchased BBEdit 14 *directly from us* on or after July 1,
2023, you are eligible for a free upgrade.

We will be sending email to all eligible registered customers by
Friday, January 19, 2024. Thank you for your patience. :-)

Meanwhile you can certainly use BBEdit 15 in evaluation mode until
your new serial number arrives.

* BBEdit 14 customers who purchased between the original 14.0 release
date of July 19, 2021 and the free-upgrade cutoff date of June 30, 2023
can upgrade for US$29.99.

* Registered customers of older BBEdit versions (2.5 through 13.5.7,
inclusive) can upgrade for US$39.99.

* At this writing, BBEdit 15 is not yet available in the Mac App Store.
We are working with Apple to get it through the review process, and will
make an announcement here as soon as it is available.

* If you have been using BBEdit in Free Mode, BBEdit 15 will
reset your evaluation period, and you will have a full 30 days in
which to try out all of BBEdit 15's new features. After 30 days,
BBEdit 15 will return to Free Mode.

Useful pages:

* BBEdit 15 Change Notes:

<https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/notes-15.0.html>

* Free upgrade eligibility:

<https://www.barebones.com/store/bbedit_free_eligible.html>.

* Paid upgrade eligibility:

<https://www.barebones.com/store/bbedit_upgrades.html>.

Enjoy,

R.