![]() Mac OS X is Unix, and Unix is chock full of configuration files. Edit invisible or privileged text files.With BBEdit, I can open the file, switch it to Unicode encoding (and fix the line endings), and save it again. This means that most Mac OS X applications, which default to opening text files as UTF-8 or MacRoman, can’t interpret the file correctly. I receive a text file containing non-ASCII characters, but it’s in Windows encoding. It totally beats Spotlight, which indexes only individual words, can’t do regular expression searches, and (on Tiger) doesn’t even index code files. All my code is in just a few folders, so BBEdit can search it all for me, very quickly. I remember that I’ve used a particular function before, but I can’t remember where. This arises especially when I’m programming. BBEdit can do batch file text searches in particular, you can designate a folder and tell BBEdit to search inside all text files within that folder, at any depth. Here, in no particular order, are the ten primary things that I do with BBEdit. #1643: New Mac mini and MacBook Pro models, new second-gen HomePod, security-focused OS updates, industry layoffsĪlthough BBEdit, from Bare Bones Software, is not my primary text editor, I’ve recently observed myself using it a great deal anyway for various tasks, some which don’t have all that much to do with editing text. ![]() #1644: Explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse, HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, GoTo breach.#1645: AirPlay iPhone to Mac for remote video, Siri learns to restart iPhones, Apple's Q1 2023 financials. ![]() ![]()
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