Comments on: One example of why BBEdit kicks ass

By: pete

pete — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Well, if you need a good (free/GPL’d) text editor for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, I recommend jEdit.

If you’re a diehard BBEdit fan it might not sway you (though there are a few BBEdit->jEdit switchers out there) but if you want something with a feature set really close to BBEdit, or you don’t have a Mac, check it out.

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

And what exactly should Apple be doing to thank BBEdit? I liked the post… until that part.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Topstyle has what sounds like an identical feature. I think that’s the fastest moving editor for PCs right now. Though in my experience Dreamweaver is the best in terms of a web IDE, and as long as you stay out of design view (or just go into it for tedious stuff) you can generally stay quite efficient.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Or you could just open a terminal & type grep ‘WRITES’ * -r and avoid all of the above.??

By: Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Not to bash BBEdit at all (well maybe a bit) but any editor worth a crap on the PC has this. I just did a similar thing with EditPlus the other day to make sense of a large Cold Fusion site.

I’m sure BBEdit has killer features but is multi-file search really it?

Oh and fyi, I used this same thing back in 1990ish w/ Multi-Edit under DOS.

By: kasia

kasia — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

emacs does all that and so much more..

By: jm

jm — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Using Windows Find,

you can search only *.php files for a specific string

By: paul

paul — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is really more about the power of a command line (or a GUI tool that harnesses that power: BareBones calls it grep, after all) than Mac OS vs The Leading Brand. I added Cygwin to my WIN2k box as soon I started my new job, so all old UNIX shell commands are at my fingertips.

I think it’s interesting that as Windows moves away from letting users work at the command line (has DOS improved since 1985 or so? It doesn’t even have an online manual worthy of the name) while Apple is building their future on UNIX. The argument used to run the other way . . .

By: nf0's Life

nf0's Life — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

BBEdit

“In less than a minute it had searched through 1800 files (text and images, though I could have had it not search the images if I wanted to bother) and it found 36 files with the select “_WRITES” in them. It also displayed in one window the context of …

By: Tech Observer

Tech Observer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

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By: Tech Observer

Tech Observer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

dumb cmd shell tricks Windows NT/2000: FOR /R recursive traversal of directory

FOR /D %variable IN (set) DO command [command-parameters] For is fun! Here is a couple of simple tricks you can use FOR to perform very useful tasks! Recursive Find Text String In Files,