If you cared about your time, this is just wrong. BBEdit does things I need that are not available in other editors, plus it is one of the only editors I can leave running without it crashing or doing other bad stuff for months at a time.
Is it actually better if it’s free? It always has risks and consequences. That’s the whole premise of “Fatal Attraction”. Ask the bunny.
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Does MacVim count? or does it have to be in terminal? 😀
Yep. People say "this Windows editor has been around for over 20 years", and I think, "aww, it's cute that you think that's an accomplishment". Vim (Vi) goes back just an hair under 50 years at this point. And still the most keystroke-efficient editor ever. And MacVim is pretty darn solid.
I like BBEdit and use it as my primary text editor, but it is missing some features that other text editors (like N++) have, such as multi-cursor editing. BBEdit does do column selection, which is good, but sometimes being able to arbitrarily set multiple cursor positions for an edit is great when needing to do a multi-edit that doesn't align vertically. If I'm programming, I have it in my IDE, but if I'm manipulating something other text-based file not in my IDE's wheelhouse, it'd be nice to have it there too.
It’s true, but to be fair it’s a first attempt and I think he worked on it like a month or so. I’m not sure I’d consider this release more than an Alpha build.
And textedit was never designed to be a competitor to Notpad++, it was probably designes as a very simple texteditor you know kind of en equvivalent to Notpad/writie on windows (beforethe AI ensitification hit)
Depending on your use case (comercial vs hobby) You might want to give Jetbrains rider a look, very nice cross platform (windows -- as long as windows lasts before micrroslop complitly kills it, MacOS and Linux)
In an era of "Chrome Version 146.0.7680.165" - or when MacOS went on for almost 20 years with only a 0.1 version bump between each release - I don't think version numbers can be counted on to mean much other than that higher numbers come after earlier numbers (of the same software) - there's no specific standard of when something gets to be qualified enough to warrant the next whole digit version number.
