[ANN] BBEdit 13.2 (415013) pre-release

[Rich Siegel]

Good afternoon folks,

We're currently working on a feature update to BBEdit 13, which includes
a number of new features, as well as fixes for previously reported
issues.

Testing is currently underway, and we have a stable pre-release version
ready for use.

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. :-)

Complete change notes to date for all the pre-release builds in this
cycle are available here:

<https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/13.2_Notes-415013.txt>

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.

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Here is a list of changes since the previous pre-release version:

version 13.2 (415013) (2020-08-28)

Additions
---------

* [402623] The Zoom In/Zoom Out/Actual Size commands on View ->
Text Display are now functional for "Preview in BBEdit" windows.

* When quitting the application, BBEdit will make a backup copy of
its preferences. (This currently resides in the Setup folder.)

Changes
-------

* When using "New Disk Browser", you can also choose a Zip or tar
archive in addition to a folder.

* [DOC] Search results lists will now highlight the matching range
of the search string or pattern.

* The "`OpenPDFsAsText`" expert preference is now _off_ by
default, since PDFs are rarely viewable or usable as plain text
anymore.

Fixes
-----

* [NFR] Fixed a bug in which executable binaries were not properly
detected when running on Apple Silicon machines.

* [NFR] [400229] Fixed bug in which gutter left/right alternation
was incorrect when starting the print from a page other than the
first.

* [NFR] Refined the fix for [397137] to prevent the Clippings and
Entities palettes from becoming visible at startup when "Hide
Palettes" was in effect when the application was previously quit.

* Implemented significant performance improvements in ctags file
interpretation, which should reduce lag when using the contextual
menu and completion panel and large tags files are involved.

* [402753] Fixed bug in the Unix Shell Script parser in which a
backslash inside of a brace block would cause confusion in
certain contexts.

* [402714] When saving a change into a Zip archive, don't set the
file's permissions to include u+x unless it begins with a "`#!`".
(The default permissions are now 0644 rather than 0700.)

* Made a change to improve performance in "Merge Windows" and
"Move (documents) to New Window" when abusively large quantities
of windows and/or documents are involved.

* Made changes to improve performance when closing a window with a
very large number of documents in the sidebar.

* [402099, 403407] Made a change so that PHP line comments are
treated as opaque; therefore a "?>" in a commented-out line of
PHP will no longer prematurely end coloring of a PHP section
embedded in an HTML document.

* [403114] Fixed bug in which the application would exit with an
uncaught exception when "Paste Using Filter" was invoked to run a
text factory with one or more unconfigured actions.

* Made a change so that doing a Shift Right on an empty (no
characters, not even a line break) line at the end of a file will
perform the appropriate operation, rather than doing nothing.
(Note that since there is no line break at the end to select, the
selection will include the tab/spaces just inserted.)

* Limit the length of the generated title for windows resulting
from an "Extract" operation.

* Set "`--[[`" and "`]]`" as default block-comment delimiters for
Lua, so that when using "Comment Block", those are used in
preference to batch-comment/uncommenting using the "`--`"
delimiter.

* [403749] The Tidy "Reflow" command now correctly loads the
"Input is XML" setting.

* [402839] Fixed bug in which moving a Differences window to a
smaller screen would hide the list of differences, if the smaller
screen required significant reshaping of the window.

* [393327] Fixed cosmetic bug in which the Live Search bar would
report "Searching..." in cases where there were no search results.


*fin*

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.

The package can be downloaded from our web server:

<https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit-13.2_415013.dmg>

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.