
Right off the bat, BBEdit's drag and drop features are the best. Without going into extreme detail about all of the features in BBEdit, I'll just point out some of the key ones that I've found to be pretty darn useful. With the click of your mouse, you'll be able to find out the number of characters, lines, and words in your current document. Info Button: When you click on this button, a dialog box will pop-up with stats on the document you're currently working in.Path Menu: Let's you know what the directory location of the file you're working on is.Insert Menu: It does just what its name implies: It allows you to insert other files, a folder listing, or a project listing.You can also specify how you want the line breaks in the document to appear when you save the file (your options are Macintosh, Unix, and DOS). File Menu: The File Menu lets you save the document as its current name, or allows you to Save As if you want to change the filename of the document.(Hint: Make sure you have Soft Wrap set.) Here you can set things like soft wrap, show or hide line numbers and the cursor position, and to turn syntax (codes) coloring on or off. Window Options Menu: Controls your Window Options preferences.If you pull down on the Function Menu and let go on one of the heads, it will take you to that place the document. Function Menu: Keeps track of the heads (i.e.,, , etc.) in your document.There are also some handy menus on the status bar that help you navigate your document, and can allow you to control your preferences. The status bar let's you know whether the file has been changed, if it's writable, the date and time the file was last saved, and where it is located. One of the main features of BBEdit is it's status bar that appears at the top of the editing window.
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When you launch the program, you get a bare-bones text editing window to work with and a few simple windows to help you code your HTML documents, if you desire to use them. On the surface, BBEdit holds true to it's makers' name.


BBEdit, from Bare Bones Software, Inc., is a Mac-only text editing program that offers pattern searching and replacing, multi-file searching, and many features that aren't usually found in word processors or other HTML authoring programs.
