BBEdit, I Love You, but Please Can We Have a Few More Things?
BBEdit is made by Bare Bones Software. For text editing, I’ve never used anything better. I swear by it. It’s got absolutely amazing search / replace, regex support, shell worksheets, and the fact that I can write a plugin in pretty much any language ever made is unbelievable.
That being said, it’s still missing a few things that I’d love to see. I know I sound greedy, but I did pay about 180 for a text editor.
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I don’t understand the Disk Browser. Why would I want a read only view of my files? It looks exactly like an editor, why can’t I just edit the files inline? Please make the disk browser functional and let me edit my stuff.
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Better code completion. This isn’t entirely accurate, since you can use snippets to sort of do the code completion. I’ll be honest, if it had TAB auto completion with a drop down (like Visual Studio), I’d be willing to write the needed scrips to auto create snippets libraries based on PHP projects. Throw it on a shortcut key and we’ll be in business.
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Enhanced split window mode. How about the ability to have 2 different documents in 1 split window?
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To elaborate on #3, I’d also like to be able to use a shell directly in bbedit, as the second half of a split window. Or a shell worksheet works. I’d be cool with that.
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Adding to #1 - one thing I like about Eclipse is that it reads in my directory and lets me quick open files with apple-shift R, then I can just type in the filename and it regex matches. It would be nice if when I’m using my editable disk browser I could do this.
Till then, I guess it’s a mix of Eclipse and BBEdit…