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Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday January 09, @06:28AM (#115754)
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OK but what about Mailsmith? The last update was well over a year ago; has BareBones abandoned it?
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Yeah vim is a pain in the ass to learn, and reproduces much if not all of the features of BB (via plugins or scripts). Using these type of editors after vim is like typing with one hand behind one's back.
Nathan
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Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday January 09, @05:06PM (#115845)
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Last I checked, bbedit clocked in at 200 dollars... I suspect the only reason that they can charge that price for a *text editor* is that they have primarily professional customers who can just expense it's use.
I've looked at it, and it seems like a nice enough text editor with some interesting features, but I have a hard time seeing a $200 sticker for the features it packs if it were sold at the consumer level.
However, there is one thing that I really dislike about it, and that's the drawer to the right that shows all the files. In general that widget looks cool at first, but is clunky to use in practice, an interesting but failed UI experiment. Its use is especially confounding since tabs are so clearly superior for managing a bunch of open documents, and have pretty much become standard now.
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Anonymous Coward
on Tuesday January 09, @09:12PM (#115862)
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"Last I checked, bbedit clocked in at 200 dollars"
You should maybe check again.
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Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday January 10, @04:50PM (#115914)
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Tabs are superior. Just try to use them when the number of open documents multiplied by a reasonable width for each tab exceeds the horizontal space at the top of the window. Then you end up with a mess. Small unusable tabs and an equally unusable overflow menu.
The documents drawer provides direct manipulation - drag and drop of multiple items, as well a operations on multiple select documents.
There is a reason BBEdit and OmniWeb use a drawer. It is superior when you start to take advantage of many open "tabs".
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Anonymous Coward
on Friday January 12, @12:07PM (#115992)
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A new license for BBEdit 8.6 costs $125. I just looked at the BareBones website, and that's the price listed. Not sure where you saw $200.
The drawer to the right can be turned off by changing a preference in the preferences. I hate the drawer, so I turned it off; problem solved.
I have no affiliation with BBEdit or BareBones, except as a very satisfied BBEdit customer for the past seven or eight years.
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Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday January 10, @10:13PM (#115925)
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This is free advertising for a text editor product that costs more than the bloody operating system Family Pack. Someone's on the take here.
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