Bare Bones Software Offers Bare-bones Editing with BBEdit Update

BBEdit brings bare-bones, functional text, code, and HTML editing to the Mac.

BBEdit, from Bare Bones Software, has been updated to version 9.1. With the update the straightforward and simple text editor sees a host of improvements and new features.

The award-winning BBEdit is designed as a no-nonsense editor for programmers, web designers, and anyone else who makes heavy use of text editing, bringnig straightforward functionality to text editing with plenty of features designed to make text editing hassle free while avoiding unnecessary frills.

Among BBEdit’s many features is an automated scripting function called Text Factory. Text Factory does the dirty work of script writing, simplifying the automation of repetitive text-editing tasks and saving the user time and frustration. BBEdit also includes automated markup for CSS and HTML, reducing coding errors and making the life of web designers easier.

As well, BBEdit is the only text editor to include Consolas Regular, an anti-aliased font specifically designed for text and code editing. This font is made to reduce eye-strain, and makes the process of visually identifying specific parts of code, which can get difficult in text-dense programming projects, less difficult.

New features in BBEdit 9.1 include auto-completion of words, an improved autosave feature that backs up work every minute, improvements to many features, fixes to some problems in earlier version, and much more.

I’ve had trouble finding a text editor that I like; the TextEdit program that comes bundled with Apple computers is too bare-bones, offering basically no features. OpenOffice, on the other hand, tends to be a bit bloated for my tastes, and sometimes does strange things like telling me my project has no spelling errors when it is obviously full of them. BBEdit strikes a balance between the two that is good to see and just plain works, which is the sort of thing people expect to see from quality Mac-focused products.

BBEdit costs $125 new or $30 for an upgrade from an earlier version. Or if you’re upgrading from version 8.5 to 8.7 and purchased on or after January 1^st, 2008, your upgrade is free. On top of that, educational discounts are available at the Bare Bones store.