[ Note, changed the title to reflect the discussion ]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Crazy Miz B of the Crazed Cowboys wrote:

: Yet another thing that I don't exactly "get"----
:
: what is it exactly that makes BBEdit so wonderful? I have found it
: useful in changing errors across the board---
: but is there more that I'm not experienced enough to know?

I love BBEdit, mostly b/c it lets me work faster at any of my text-based
work than I could with just a GUI or CLI (command line interface) front end.

Especially when it comes to cleaning up an old site, and figuring out some
of the patterns other folks sorta semi had in their code and needing to replace
things. I mean I LOVE regular expressions on the unix backside, but there's
also times when having to script out parsing through every file and looking
for a pattern takes a while, or I make a mistake because I'm typing it in
from the middle of a vi session and forget to save it out etc.

BBEdit, for me, let's me move faster and more easily between different
find and replace heuristics (grep vs standard find/replace every desktop user
is used to) as well as speeding putting the paterns into a search.

And sometimes just being able to look at all the code that is syntactically
highlighted in a true text-editor that's FAST and efficient is just much
easier than scrolling through DW. Again, it's just a tool tailored for
such work and lets you think in different ways for attacking a problem rather
than just scrolling through code.

At least that's my view ;)

**Michael

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