BBEdit 7.0 review

Verdict:

It's often difficult to improve on an existing application. But BBEdit 7.0 is good example of how to make something better without bloating it

Review Date: 12 Dec 2002

Price when reviewed: (£163.32 inc VAT)

Reviewed By: Richard Dyce

Our Rating 5 stars out of 5

Alternatively, you can use keyboard shortcuts (control-[ and control-]). For those who need to deal with fixed width table data, BBEdit finally gets its own version of Word's rectangular text selection. Hold down the option key and drag an area to select the text within. Great for stripping out prefixes and suffixes.

Plain sailing

All in all, this is a tremendous update for those who always have their heads inside BBEdit. In some ways, the previous upgrade has slightly taken the wind out of its sails, but, as usual, all the additions are well thought out, well executed and, above all, useful. It's often difficult to improve on an existing application. But BBEdit 7.0 is good example of how to make something better without bloating it.

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