Moving back to BBEdit from TextMate

Last year I ended up moving to TextMate as my Ruby on Rails IDE; when
BBEdit 9.0 came out, I happily came back into the fold, and I haven't
looked back.

I just wrote a blog post sharing some tips for easing the transition.
It specifically deals with using the new Projects functionality,
includes some tips for setting up multi-file search, and provides
information (and a cheat sheet!) for the effective use of Ruby and
Rails clippings.

You can find the post at http://www.idolhands.com.

If anyone in the community here has additional tips that they would
like to share, please let me know!

Best,
Corey

Cool. What do you use to do those neat svg flow charts?

Dennis

My second-favorite Mac app... OmniGraffle.

Nice post, Cory, and welcome back to BBEdit. I made this comment on
your blog, but thought I'd bring it up here as well (just in case
someone wants to correct me ;-).

You wrote: "Long-time BBEdit users will probably recognize this
[Projects in BBEdit 9] as an evolution of the Disk Browser feature."

Actually, I think the new Project feature in BBEdit 9 is an
evolution
of the long-standing File Groups feature. In fact, I think Projects
and the legacy File Groups are virtually identical, except for the
addition of the attached editing window and some UI polish in the
new
Projects window.

BBEdit 9 still has the Disk Browser too, but it's a distinctly
different feature that mirrors the directory structure of a drive
(whereas File Groups and Projects contain an arbitrary collection of
files that can be located anywhere).

-Dennis

Hi

It is a great blog you have!

I use BBEdit for HTML/CSS and miscellaneous other tasks. I do use it a
lot in fact. I have tried out two alternative text editors in the last
six months and returned to BBEdit. I tried TextMate and found that
although it has much to commend it you cannot use AppleScript with it
very well which is a big negative for me. Also I am much more of a
palettes person than a keyboard shortcuts type.

The other text editor I tried was Panic's Coda. I was very impressed
with Coda's interface at first but after a while of using it I
discovered it is not well thought out in some key areas. This is why I
feel it is important to always try things for the full month of the
trial period because it takes a bit of time to see their faults.

With Coda the Find/Replace is in a pane which runs across the top of
the window below the toolbar. That I rather liked, but the "scope" is
in a submenu of a small menu on that pane. This means that to check if
you are doing Find/Replace in a selection or not you have to always go
to that submenu. It was imho really a very bad piece of design.

With Coda there is another tiny submenu to select flavour of RegEx.
But I could not work out any of the available flavours and no guide
was given as to what expressions were to be used.

With Coda you cannot select browsers to be included in the "preview"
menu. This meant that I could not include Xyle Scope which I always use.

So although the interface with Coda is super-slick it presented
numerous problems for me.

Patrick

http://www.patrickjames.co.uk

I echo this as well; I used to use TextMate full time as well, and
when I saw that BBEdit got the project functionality, I switched as
well. I would only use BBEdit for it's advanced search/replace, when
I couldn't get a command prompt to use 'grep' and the shell tools for
a system I was working on. In a way, I still like the interface for
TextMate and how it handles projects, specifically the "Drawer" -- I
prefer the drawer to a "Sidebar", simply because of the way hiding it,
and showing it works in my laptop workflow. Drawer's tend to move the
whole window, versus a section of your text editing area. Anyway,
that is a personal pref.

Thanks for the comments!

Best Regards,

Bruce
> You can find the post athttp://www.idolhands.com.