Don't forget that you can also switch on Emacs keybindings from BBEdit's preferences. This was pointed out at the MacOSX con last month. It's handy because I bounce between the two all day long.

If Neal Stephenson can use friggin EMACS to write his novels, I guess Cory can use BBEdit... :)

BBEdit is infitinely superior to Word for composition. No talking paperclip, no auto-"correction," keyboard shortcuts for EVERYTHING (Word doesn't even have a fucking shortcut for FIND AGAIN!), search-and-replace with regexp, andyour documents are nice, plain ASCII files that you can paste into the body of an email.

Edited by author 11-14-2002 01:44 PM
I use BBEdit for writing code, but I would be interested to know how Corey uses it to write novels. Do you just use raw text, or do you make use of any formatting tools? I use MS Word for most of my non-code writing, and I wouldn't mind getting away from it.

CVS integration and rectangular text selection are two features I've been pining for, so I'm in.

Edited by author 11-13-2002 09:23 PM
Mirror for boingsters. (please don't announce to the whole world)

And for what it's worth, it sure feels like a significant improvement over 6.x, so it's prolly a worthy upgrade.

Jeez, I feel like I just got 6.5! These guys are getting as bad as apple. Don't get me wrong, I love this program, but I seem to be subscribing for 50 bucks a year.

Has anyone been able to get to the BareBones site? It's been swamped all day.

And Cowbox X, everyone knows the ultimate editor is emacs! <ducks/>

cute... but still a toy compared to ALMIGHTY HOMESITE

(ducks)

(the CVS and UNIX integration look very nice, though)