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I still have a licence, still in my Dock, still use it for (a) Massive Files (b) Regex work.

But not actually writing code anymore. I guess I must have started with BBEdit Lite in 1994. Would love to go back to 1994.




Any idea how it compares to vim or Macvim for your uses?


Neovim still wins for outright text editing but here’s things that I just love about BBEdit:

* Pattern Playground * space/tab/line ending conversions

If your text file is a disaster zone or needs some corrective measures, BBEdit.

If I bothered to spend time with it, I’m pretty sure I could make it do cool IDE-like things, but it’s too late for all that now.


nah, the music was terrible back then


I have a stack of records that refutes this, from Portishead to Nobukaku Takemura to Elastica to Blur. Music was outstanding back in 1994.


So nothing has changed.




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