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BBEdit Lite 6.1.2 Release Notes
This document summarizes the major additions to BBEdit Lite since the last public release (version 4.6). All of these changes are described in detail in the BBEdit Lite User Manual; this is only an overview.
Note: BBEdit Lite is built from the same core code as BBEdit 6.1.2; thus, it incorporates many behind-the-scenes refinements made since the last revision of BBEdit Lite. Those refinements are too numerous to list here; only the most visible changes are noted in this document.
For specific information on changes and fixes since prior versions, see the Change History section below.
Native on Mac OS X.
BBEdit Lite now runs as a native Mac OS X application. Please see the "Mac OS X Notes" document for important information.
Navigation Services support.
BBEdit Lite now supports the new "Navigation Services" Open and Save dialogs introduced in Mac OS 8. If you prefer the older-style Open and Save dialogs, you can control this via the "Navigation Services" setting in the "Application" panel of the Preferences window. (Changes take effect immediately.)
Appearance Manager support.
BBEdit Lite 6.1 adds support for the Apple Appearance Manager (introduced in Mac OS 8) in order to present a more "modern" appearance. This is controlled via the "Appearance Manager" switch in the "Application" panel of the Preferences window. (Changes will take effect the next time you start the application.) We have observed that the Appearance Manager doesn't perform very well on anything slower than a 120MHz PowerPC 604 (a a Power Mac 9500/120 or equivalent), so if you're running such a machine, you may wish to turn this setting off.
QuickTime image translation.
In addition to being able to open PICT files for display, BBEdit Lite 6.1 can now open for display any image file that Quicktime can recognize and translate. This behavior is controlled via the "QuickTime Translation" switch in the "Application" panel of the Preferences window. (Changes take effect immediately.) If Quicktime Translation is turned off, dropping an image file on BBEdit Lite will cause it to open the image file and display it as raw text.
QuickTime movie playback.
BBEdit Lite 6.1 can now open any file whose Mac OS file type indicates that it is a QuickTime movie. This behavior is controlled via the "QuickTime Playback" switch in the "Application" panel of the Preferences window. (Changes take effect immediately.) If Quicktime Playback is turned off, dropping a movie file on BBEdit Lite will cause it to open the image file and display it as raw text.
Internet Config support.
BBEdit Lite supports the Internet Config system (presented as the "Internet" control panel on Mac OS 8 and later). The "globe" menu provides quick access to your Internet helper applications, and you can command-click on a URL in a text view to have it opened with the appropriate helper.
New Text Transformations.
Adding to its already impressive arsenal of text manipulations, BBEdit Lite 6.1 adds some new tricks to its bag:
The "Hard Wrap" command now gives you the ability to apply indentation relative to the first line of the text being wrapped, for consistent paragraph indentation.
The "Hard Wrap" command now provides a "Same as First Line" indentation setting.
Powerful tools for working with quoted text (as found in email messages and Usenet news articles): "Rewrap Quoted Text", "Increase Quote Level", "Decrease Quote Level", and "Strip Quotes".
Improved Searching.
BBEdit Lite's "grep" matching has been improved with some additional meta-characters, including some Perl-style modifiers for both searching and replacing (see the "Searching with Grep" chapter of the documentation for details). In addition, the Find dialog has been completely reworked, and can now accept search strings whose length is limited only by the available memory (rather than the previous 512-character limit).
You can now apply scripting power to multi-file searches; in addition to being able to search a folder, the currently open windows, or a Search Results window, you can now write an OSA script that returns a list of files, and instruct BBEdit's multi-file search to search those files.
More Configurability.
The "Set Menu Keys" capability of BBEdit Lite 4.6 has been enhanced to allow a wider range of keyboard equivalents and modifier keys; in addition, keystrokes for plug-ins and scripts are now considered part of the set, so that conflicts with main menus can be avoided.
In addition, BBEdit Lite 6.1 features enhanced stationery support; you can put stationery files in the "Stationery" folder (located inside of "BBEdit Lite Support", and they become available for quick use from the "New With Stationery" submenu of the File menu. The "Stationery List" floating window lets you see all of your stationery at a glance, and you can assign keyboard equivalents to your stationery as well.
Improved Plug-in Support.
BBEdit Lite 6.1 now supports the same plug-in capabilities and callback services as BBEdit 6.1. This means that BBEdit plug-ins can now be PowerPC-native, Mac OS X-native, and floating- window "palette" plug-ins are now supported as well.
This parity of plug-in support between freeware and commercial versions of BBEdit vastly expands the audience for plug-in developers and makes it easier to develop plug-ins that run on both flavors of BBEdit.
Projector Awareness.
BBEdit Lite 6.1 now honors the 'ckid' resources placed in files by MPW Projector, MacCVS, and compatible source-control systems.
And much more!
There are numerous minor feature additions, refinements, and improvements throughout BBEdit Lite. We invite you to tour the application and documentation, and enjoy the thrill of discovery. :-)
Change History
BBEdit Lite 6.1.2 fixes the following reported problems with BBEdit Lite 6.1.1:
- on Mac OS X 10.1, text could not be copied and pasted between windows in BBEdit Lite.
- on Mac OS X 10.1, files would not show up in the "Open Recent" menu.
- BBEdit Lite would crash when doing a multi-file search using a Search Results window as the source.
- Zap Gremlins would malfunction when line-feed filtration had occurred but no other characters had been zapped.
- automatic tab expansion would sometimes do the wrong thing (or crash, on Mac OS X).
BBEdit Lite 6.1.1 fixes the following reported problems with BBEdit Lite 6.1:
- changes to the "Default Font" setting in the Editor Defaults preferences would not take effect.
- when performing a multi-file search, BBEdit Lite would not honor search option settings that differed from the defaults (literal search, Case Sensitive turned off, Match Entire Words turned off).
- dynamic scrolling for the horizontal scrollbar now works when running on Mac OS 8.1 and earlier.
- the "Hard Wrap" command would hang when wrapping Relative to First Line and the first line was indented with spaces and contained no spaces after the indentation.
- worked around Mac OS X clipboard performance bugs by deferring clipboard import until the last possible moment.