BBEdit 9.2 Release Notes

This page documents all feature enhancements and bug fixes included in the BBEdit 9.2 update.

For details on all the new features and enhancements offered by BBEdit 9.0, please see its release notes.

For information on changes made in previous versions, please see the release notes archive.

For detailed information on using any of BBEdit’s features, please refer to the user manual (choose “User Manual” from BBEdit’s Help menu).

Requirements

BBEdit 9.2 requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

This version is a Universal application: it runs natively on both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs.

Additions

• BBEdit now supports .ini-style preferences (primarily for setting Expert settings), as follows:

  The existing .plist is still the preferred preference storage.

  If a preference key does not exist in CFPreferences, we then look in ~/.bbedit for a matching preference key.

  Our two-stage namespace has been preserved, so if the old preference was was:

  <key>StatusBar:SGIButton</key>
  <true/>

  then the .bbedit file would have this data:

  [StatusBar]
  SGIButton = 1

  If neither preference system possesses a setting, the factory default is used.

  For those who feel the need to, you can create a section in your .bbedit file:

  [PreferINIPrefs]

  Which will cause BBEdit to ignore things set in the GUI, and prefer those settings.

  If you do this, note that the UI does not, and will never, track changes to the .bbedit file.

• There’s now an expert preference for disabling passive FTP, in order to deal with hosts that misbehave with given the “PASV” command.

  Passive FTP can be disabled per host, per domain, or globally:

  FTP:AllowPassiveFTP:foobar.example.com - only for "foobar.example.com" FTP:AllowPassiveFTP:example.com - only for servers in "example.com" FTP:AllowPassiveFTP - global preference

  Our recommendation is that you disable per host in preference to globally or per-domain, but at the end of the day, do whatever works. :-)

• There’s now an expert preference for controlling the use of ssh compression when using SFTP, in order to deal with hosts that can’t handle ssh compression.

  SSH compression can be disabled per host, per domain, or globally:

  FTP:EnableSSHCompression:foobar.example.com - only for "foobar.example.com" FTP:EnableSSHCompression:example.com - only for servers in "example.com" FTP:EnableSSHCompression - global preference

  Our recommendation is that you disable per host in preference to globally or per-domain.

  (Note that ssh compression is on by default.)

• There’s a new command on the View menu: “Go Here in Terminal”. It’s enabled when the active document exists on disk; choosing it will open a Terminal window with the current working directory set to the document’s parent directory.

• BBEdit now has a “Sleep” command. The menu command is on the application menu, and the application responds to kBBEditSuite/kAESleepApplication.

  Control over saving of existing documents is in place with an expert pref:

  defaults write com.barebones.bbedit Misc:SaveTitledDocumentsBeforeSleeping -bool YES

  If it’s set to YES, then any document that exists on disk will be saved before sleeping. If set to NO (the default), the document gets an autosave which will be restored when the app comes up again. (Untitled unsaved documents are always autosaved, irrespective of the preference setting.)

  When BBEdit gets quit because of a system shutdown, restart, or user logout, it now does a “Sleep BBEdit” in order to restore as much of the application state as possible when starting back up. (This means that you may not be prompted to save new or unsaved documents, since they will be autosaved when the application sleeps.)

• There’s greater control available over whether documents on remote servers (FTP/SFTP) or unmounted volumes are opened when automatically reopening documents at application startup. BBEdit will now prompt you if you have one or more documents opened via FTP/SFTP, and give you the opportunity to skip them or to reopen them.

  The following expert prefs may be used:

  Startup:AllowVolumeMount # If set to NO, BBEdit will not attempt to mount a volume # containing a document it wants to reopen. defaults to YES.

  Startup:ReopenRemoteDocuments # If set to NO, BBEdit will not attempt to open any # documents that were opened from FTP/SFTP servers. Defaults # to YES.

  Startup:PromptToReopenRemoteDocuments # If set to NO, BBEdit will open remote documents without # asking, if Startup:ReopenRemoteDocuments is set to YES. If # set to YES, BBEdit will prompt to give you the opportunity # to skip remote documents. Has no effect if # Startup:ReopenRemoteDocuments is set to NO. Defaults to YES.

• Lasso is now a fully supported language, with syntax coloring, functions listed in the function popup, and automatically generated fold points.

• By request, the Scratchpad window gets “Save a Copy”.

• The bbdiff command-line tool now supports an additional command form:

  bbdiff [options] file /path/to/some/folder

  If /path/to/some/folder/file exists, then file will be compared against /path/to/some/folder/file. Otherwise, an error is reported.

• The command line tool can make BBEdit compatible ctags files:

  bbedit --maketags [optional list of dirs]

  This can be used as an express way to invoke exuberant ctags, as follows:

  # generate tags for the directory rooted at CWD # and write the "tags" file in CWD bbedit --maketags

  # generate tags for each of the supplied directory trees, and # create a "tags" file at the top of each directory tree bbedit --maketags /path/to/some/directory /path/to/some/other/directory

• Language modules can now specify a default value for the “Reference URL Template” language-specific preference. This is specified in the plist as follows:

  <key>BBLMReferenceSearchURLTemplate</key> <string>http://www.example.com/foobar.cgi?SYMBOLNAME</string>

• There’s a new color setting in the Text Colors preference: “Numeric Constants”. This can also be adjusted on a per-language basis in the appropriate language’s settings (in the “Languages” preferences).

• Next to the file path display in the editing view toolbar, there is a small menu control. Clicking this control displays a popup menu with commands to copy the file’s name, path, or URL. (These commands are also available via Edit -> Copy Path.)

• The Go To Line sheet can take relative input: Entering a value prefixed with +/- will add the value to the current line number. For example, with line 100 selected, “+75” will move to line 175; “-75” will go to line 25. An unsigned number will move to the specified line number, as before.

• There’s a new setting in the Windows preferences: “Cascade new windows”. When turned ON (the factory default), new windows (or documents with no saved state) are cascaded down-and-right, beginning with the placement and size determined by “Save Default Window” (if such exists). When turned OFF, new windows (or documents without saved state) are placed in the same location every time.

• Disk browsers and project windows get an “Open with Finder” command on the contextual menu and action (gear) menu. Choosing this command asks the system to open the selected items, which in turn may open them in an application other than BBEdit.

• The contextual menu in text views gets a new command: “Move Selection to Scratchpad”. This will append the selected text to the end of the Scratchpad, and delete it.

• Added “Go Here in Disk Browser” to the View menu and to the contextual and action menus for disk browsers and project windows. Choosing it will open a disk browser on the selected item (if it’s a folder) or selected item’s directory (if it’s a document or a file in a project list or disk browser).

• Two new commands on the contextual menu in text views: “Find all …. in Selection” and “Replace all … with … in Selection”. These commands use the current search state (same as what drives the commands on the Search menu). “Find All…” will create a results window. If the replace string is empty, then “Replace all” will change to “Delete all” to reflect the behavior.

• There’s a new command on the Search menu, which appears right below the “Multi-File Search” command: “Search in …”.

  If a project or disk browser is the front window, then this command’s name reflects the name of the project, or the name of the directory that you’re currently browsing in the disk browser.

  Choosing this command will open the Multi-File Search window with the project (or disk browser’s current directory) selected as the source for the multi-file search. Make any desired adjustments to the search settings and then start the search (or just hit Return/Enter and you’re off and running).

  If the Multi-File Search window is in front, the command will target the frontmost (Z-order) project or disk browser, whichever occurs first.

  The same command is available on the action (‘gear’) menu in projects and disk browsers as well.

• Added a feature to the language module interface for giving the module control over resolution of include file references.

  If the language module has

  <key>BBLMCanResolveIncludeFiles</key> <true />

  in its plist, then BBEdit will send kBBLMResolveIncludeFileMessage for every include chosen off the includes menu. The param block will include a CFStringRef with the name, a CFURLRef to the document on disk (which may be NULL) and a place for you to put a CFURLRef when returning.

  If the module returns NULL and noErr, then BBEdit will assume that the module declined to do anything with the string and will look for the file as usual.

  If the module returns a non-NULL URL, BBEdit will resolve it, so the module can make a file://, http://, FTP or SFTP URL and the right thing will happen. If the module returns something other than noErr, BBEdit will not attempt anything else with the include and will report the error.

• The Menus preferences now has a group of commands so that you can assign keyboard equivalents to operations in FTP/SFTP browsers, if desired.

• New option in the Python language settings (Preferences -> Languages and then double-click on the Python item in the languages list): “Scan HTML strings for functions”. When turned on (the default, and 9.0 behavior), items in HTML code in triple-quoted strings are shown on the function menu (as though the code existed in a freestanding HTML document); when turned off, they don’t.

• There is an option to suppress callouts embedded in comments from the function menu. See Preferences -> Text Status Display.

• There’s a new setting in the “Editing” tab for language-specific preferences (Preferences -> Languages): “Tab width”. Edit the value here to set a language-specific value for the default tab width.

• BBEdit now implements the necessary hooks so that the following JavaScript functions now work when using “Preview in BBEdit”:

  window.alert
window.confirm
window.prompt
window.onbeforeunload
  

  JavaScript user interaction is disabled during auto-reloads that BBEdit performs as you type or save your documents.

  window.onbeforeunload is not triggered for an auto-reloads, or on window close.

  Additionally, the “Choose” button for <input type=”file”> elements is now functional.

• If the list of a results browser is modified (by deleting items from the list), a confirmation is required to close the results window.

• Disk browsers can now explore tarballs (.tar, .tar.gz, .tgz files). When an eligible file is in the listing, it will have a disclosure triangle next to it. Twist it open to reveal the files and directories within. As with other items displayed in disk browser listings, you can view files in the editor view, or double-click them to open in a separate window for editing.

• Added an additional Apple Event parameter for programmatically determining a “fallback” encoding, in cases where the file’s encoding could not be automatically determined:

  #define keyFallbackEncoding 'RdFB' // typeLongInteger, same semantics as keyReadEncodingValue

• The “Run Unix Filter” action in text factories is now more flexible. Previously these required a unix executable (+x mode).

  Unix executables continue to work as they have in the past.

  If the chosen ‘filter’ is not an executable, but has a #! line, is it automatically run for you.

  All other ‘filters’ log a reasonable error.

• When choosing “Don’t Save” from the confirm save before Preview prompt (when preview is working in Ask mode), the document is previewed through a temporary file. (The previous action was identical to cancel; a no-op.)

• The various “reveal in Finder” operations (explicit command, or click on the document’s icon in an editing view toolbar) will now ask PathFinder to do the work, if it is running.

• “Move to New Window” is enabled in for project windows containing only one document.

• Added support for using ‘space’ (modified by at least the command or control key) as a keyboard shortcut.

• Auto-save now works for all document classes for which auto-save is approprate (i.e. not projects, which are already autosaved), not just text documents. Untitled documents are now remembered with saved application state (including sleep) and restored to their correct content and position as necessary.

• If writing a backup file requires elevated privileges, BBEdit can help you out.

• Added support for Python 3 to the #! -> Check Syntax command.

• You can now use the scripting interface to create new items in a project: tell application "BBEdit" tell project document 1 -- add a file or folder: make new project item with properties {file:POSIX file "/Users/siegel/p4/trunk/BBEdit/dox/"} -- add a URL (with optional name): make new project item with properties {URL:"ftp://foo.example.com/", name:"Mumble"} -- add a collection (name required): make new project collection with properties {name:"fumble"} end tell end tell

• BBEdit uses Growl to notify upon completion of some actions (Replace All, Compare Folders, Multi-file Search/Replace, and Text Factory execution).

Changes

• The on-disk representation for project documents has changed. Hopefully for the last time. :-) BBEdit projects are now packages (directories that appear to the Finder and other interested parties as a single file). Inside the package there is one file containing the project data, and another containing the project settings (expanded items, file filter settings, etc). The settings file is unique for each user of the project.

  This organization allows a project to be checked in to source control, and each user can have their own settings and remembered state without affecting the project data itself, which used to require unnecessary commits.

  Project documents in the new format have the filename extension “bbprojectd”. File group and project documents created by previous versions of BBEdit will be upgraded (with a backup first), as before.

• The internal mechanics and UI presentation for recent items have been overhauled. The “Recent Files & Favorites” and “Recent Folders & Favorites” folders in ~/Library/Preferences/com.barebones.bbedit.PreferenceData/ are no longer used and may be deleted.

  The “Open Recent” menu now shows all recently opened documents, grouped by document type, and sorted by name within each group. Folders are now included, so you can open a disk browser on a recently used folder by choosing it from this menu (something which was not possible before). Text and project documents are grouped before other types. The first grouping in the menu consists of the six most recently used items (of all types), sorted in descending order (most recently used first), for quick access.

  The “Clear Menu” item at the end of the menu has been changed to “Clear History”, to more accurately reflect its function: if you choose it, all recent items will be cleared. Note that since recent folders are available as sources for multi-file search/replace and Text Factory operation, clearing the history will remove the folders from those operations as well.

  The application preference controlling how many recent items BBEdit will remember applies to each type of item. So, if it’s set to 15, BBEdit will remember 15 text documents, 15 folders, 15 projects, 15 images, 15 movies, and so on. If you want finer control, you can construct an expert pref using the name of the document type as it appears in the menu (and if that name contains spaces, you’ll need to quote it). So, for example, if you only wanted to remember the five most recent projects:

  # remember only the five most recent projects
  defaults write com.barebones.bbedit NSRecentDocumentsLimit:Projects -int 5

  Or the ten most recent folders:

  # remember only the ten most recent folders
  defaults write com.barebones.bbedit NSRecentDocumentsLimit:Folders -int 10

  Or only the most recent shell worksheet:

  # remember only the most recent worksheet
  defaults write com.barebones.bbedit "NSRecentDocumentsLimit:Shell Worksheets" -int 1

  If you don’t want to remember any recent documents of a particular type (they won’t appear in the menu, either), you can set its limit to zero:

  # don't remember any images or movies
  defaults write com.barebones.bbedit NSRecentDocumentsLimit:Images -int 0
  defaults write com.barebones.bbedit NSRecentDocumentsLimit:Movies -int 0

  Note that when setting the recent items limit, you MUST set it as an integer, using “-int <some number>”.

• The popup menus in the Find Differences dialog have been retooled, and now present currently open items and recent items on the same menu.

• The status bar in editing views is now below the horizontal scrollbar.

• When completing or inserting a clipping, the clipping file is always read from disk – if you have the clipping’s file open and have unsaved changes, the changes will not be inserted.

• The following text encodings are no longer presented as options in the “If file’s encoding can’t be guessed, use” popup menu in the Text Encodings preferences, because our best guess has already eliminated them as possibilities: UTF-8, UTF-8 (no BOM), UTF-16-BE, and UTF-16-LE.

• Made some changes so that documents that were opened directly (versus auto-reopen at startup) are added to the Open Recent list when they are saved or closed.

• The default value for “chdir to Script’s folder” when running a #! script is now True. The state can be changed from the “Run…” or “Run File…” dialogs and the change will be persistent.

• Changed the way BBEdit searches for unix executables. This should reduce/eliminate the instances of an unexpected version of a binary being used when someone has installed a custom version of svn/python/etc.

  Today you can override this for svn, p4 and cvs with the expert preference. This change should make use of the expert pref unnecessary in most cases.

• When “Selected Text Only” is turned on, only “Find All” and “Replace All” are enabled, to reinforce the reminder that you can only batch find when searching in the selection.

• Contextual menu items for searching in text views are now turned on by default, in order to expose the new commands. If you wish, you may turn these off in Preferences -> Menus.

• The “Search” commands on the contextual menu now use the same nomenclature as their counterparts in the menu bar.

Fixes

• Trimmed 1 pixel off the effective width of thin view splitters. This makes the effective width (more) consistent with AppKit applications.

• Fixed “Show Module Documentation” for python files which contain non-ASCII characters.

• Fixed “Show POD” for perl files which contain non-ASCII characters.

  N.B. The documentation for pod2text appears to disagree with the implementation with respect to the output encoding. Furthermore, in some cases it:

  • outputs iso-8859-1 when utf-8 is expected
  • outputs files which contain multiple encodings

  BBEdit does its best to cope with this.

• Fixed math error which would cause a Hex Dump operation to take up to twice as much memory as was required to complete the operation. For dumps close to the size limit, this would result in errors at the end of the dumping process.

• The reopen application behavior will fire the startup action if there are no non-floating windows open. (Previously, having a floating window open caused the action to be suppressed.)

• The --scratchpad option from the command line tool invokes “automatic” mode scrolling, which means that if the EOF was previously visible when the text is added, the window will scroll EOF back into view (like Terminal does).

• Fixed bug in which project contents got duplicated in the list (and consequently on disk) if the project document got reloaded due to a change in its backing file (for example, when checking in or out of an svn repository).

• Fixed bug in which Text Factory documents did not correctly reload if the backing file was changed on disk, and behaved strangely when using Revert to discard unsaved changes.

• Fixed a bug where P4 Show Opened would report no files opened when your login ticket had expired. It now reports the correct status.

• The Show Gutter command is correctly disabled for the scratchpad window.

• Fixed a bug where the incorrect relative data was generated for a reference to the project’s parent folder.

• Fixed bug in which Save As on a document opened from FTP/SFTP would point the save panel at the “FTP Temp” directory.

• Fixed crash which would occur if an error occurred while invoking pydoc in the course of a “Find in Reference” operation.

• Fixed a problem where -9870 was sometimes reported when setting the font with the font panel.

• Corrected a bug which caused the text statistics placard to not refresh after the word count timer fired. (the visible symptom being the ellipsis sliding from word count to line count instead of the placard growing in width)

• Scratchpad View Settings changed via the View->Text Display menu persist.

• Fixed a bug which prevented the “Unicode” line ending option in the status bar from being enabled when it should have been.

• BBEdit no longer allows you to change the tab width of an editing view to zero. This, along with some internal changes, resolves a crash which would occur when attempting to do so.

• The file filtering in projects now treats packages (like nibs) as files when “Invisible Items” is turned off, so that custom filters work correctly.

• The ”.” and ”..” items are now filtered out of the file listings in FTP/SFTP browsers and save panels.

• Fixed a bug in the ActionScript function parser. No longer tripped up by a function return type of * (which is the explicit way of typing something as “untyped”).

• Fixed crash which would occur if BBEdit ran out of memory while trying to compare two files of sufficient size.

• Fixed a bug which prevented the progress dialog and/or dock progress from appearing for some operations.

• Fixed a bug which caused incorrect operation when trying to Save or Save As to a new file whose name contains a ”/”. (Trying to use ”/” in filenames is eventually going to cause you pain. Now there is one less place.)

• Fixed a bug which allowed ActionScript’s get to be recognized as a function-starter in JavaScript files (similar to the function keyword).

• Fixed possible cause of a crash related to populating the function popup in JavaScript files.

• Fixed crash which would occur when trying to do a Find All in the selected text in a text view that was not backed by a document (such as the Scratchpad or Clipboard).

• Fixed crash which could occur during a threaded Replace All (from multi-file search or text factory execution).

• Fixed bug in which symbols whose names began with extern were listed incorrectly in the function menu for C/C++/ObjC/ObjC++ files.

• Put in some armor plating to resolve a reported crash when trying to present search-status annunciators (wrap around, “not found”).

• Fixed the HTML “submit” clipping – it incorrectly inserted “insert”.

• Fixed bug in which accessing the URL property of a non-text document via the scripting interface would fail.

• Fixed bug in which the “Find All” and “Replace All” buttons in the Multi-File Search window weren’t correctly enabled when they should have been after using the history or Grep pattern menus to fill in the text fields.

• Made a change to reduce the amount of work done by the application to maintain the web browser list (for the Markup->Preview menu) when an application is launched or quits.

• Fixed a bug where certain preferences which should have been excluded from syncing were not.

• Fixed crash which would occur when adding a folder or path in the File Search preferences, after having previously deleted certain other entries in the list.

• Fixed case in which “Find in Reference” would crash when invoked on an empty Python file.

• Fixed errant “Unmappable characters found” sheet and subsequent crash which would occur when closing an unsaved document containing unmappable characters, and “Make backup before saving” is turned on, and “Keep historical backups” is turned off.

• Fixed bug in which the “Save to FTP/SFTP Server” dialog didn’t allow you to follow symlinks on the server.

• Fixed bug which prevented language-specific options from taking effect for new documents.

• Find in Python Reference (pydoc) works correctly when pydoc emits non-ascii or non-utf-8 output, as is the case for modules with broken doc strings. (e.g. plistlib, Python Issue #5432)

• The shipping build of ctags/readtags is built with NDEBUG=1 so that assertions don’t bring the tool down in normal use.

• Made a bunch of changes to reduce the performance hit associated with using files located on high-latency remote file systems.

• Fixed a bug where Save to S/FTP server inappropriately required a password when saving to an SFTP server (where you might be using public key authentication.)

• Fixed bug in which certain operations (such as previewing in a browser) would attempt to save documents that weren’t dirty.

• Fixed bug which caused a -50 error to be reported when trying to invoke “Text Options” for a Subversion commit window.

• Fixed a problem where we would sometimes target the wrong P4 repository.

• Fixed bug in which the “Search For” field in the modal Find dialog always got focus when bringing the application to the front while the dialog was up.

• Fixed a bug where undo after a reload/verify didn’t mark the document dirty.

• Fixed bug in which Jump Back and Jump Forward didn’t scroll the window back to the correct vertical point (i.e. where it was when the state was captured).

• When opening files from a project window’s file list, BBEdit will now hand off to the system any files that BBEdit could open, but shouldn’t (OmniGraffle documents being one of many possible examples).

• During project file autosave, if the project file can’t be found (due to USB drive dismounts, network changes, etc.) we notify the user once, and continue trying to autosave.

• Fixed missing fold widgets for fold ranges containing a single line break.

• Fixed a bug where the fold range end indicator would draw on the wrong line when soft-wrapping. (This also improves where the start indicator is drawn in those same situations.)

• Adjusted the factory sizes for Disk Browsers and Projects so the text view size is consistent with text windows.

  If you have chosen “Save Default Window”, those saved settings will still supersede these.

• If the project’s backing disk file isn’t available and the project needs to be saved when closing, BBEdit will now give you the option to save it somewhere else, or to close it without saving.

• Fixed a bug computing scrollbar widths in text views (which showed in Disk Browsers and project windows)

• Fixed bug in which “Arrange” would put a window under the title bar if there was no saved default position.

• Fixed bug in which ctags completions for languages which were not HTML-ish but embeddable in HTML were not offered as options when completing.

• Fixed crash when JavaScript functions with assigned names, such as foo.bar[bat] = function() {...}, were not in a recognized/expected form.

• Folder compares now avoid comparing documents that can’t be usefully compared.

• Open from FTP/SFTP Server will no longer show project or file group documents.

• Fixed bug in which a page break at the end of a line would cause an extra blank line to be printed at the top of the next page.

• Fixed error performing P4 commands when a browser window was frontmost, and the selected item corresponded to an item in the trash

• Fixed bug in which the “add to recent list” parameter to a “save” event was ignored.

• Fixed bug in which using “Save As” did not change the document’s language if the default was something other than “(none)”. This change also addresses a bug in which the document’s language wasn’t recalculated if the file’s name changed on disk.

• When the Find window is up, “Replace All” is disabled if the search target is blocked by a sheet.

• The “Selected Text Only” setting in the Find window is now remembered across invocations of the window (and runs of the application).

• Fixed crash which would occur when trying to set or change a keyboard equivalent after having started the application with the Shift key down (which disables loading of plug-ins and other services).

• readtags will bail gracefully when asked to parse a tag file that it doesn’t know how to read, rather than crashing.

• Fixed a bug where expanding a collapsed editor view in a results browser would sometimes result in screen turds left where the editor view should have been drawn.

• Fixed bug which prevented you from adding packaged documents to a project window using the “Add” button in the project’s toolbar. (Dragging the package to the project list did work.)

• The ponies’ steel shoes have been replaced with ones crafted from saronite, which should provide greater long-term durability in the field.

• Fixed a bug in which the search/replace history wasn’t updated when doing a search or replace from the Search menu after editing the search or replace string in the Find window, switching to another document (without closing the Find window), and then using the Search menu.

• Non-text documents now require a double-click to open from a project’s file list when single-click-to-open is turned on.

• Expanded the VBScript keyword list

• When looking up passwords given only a host name, the FTP/SFTP connection sheet will only look for keychain items with the right protocol identifier, to save wear and tear on the keychain.

• A variety of changes have been made to reduce application startup time.

• Fixed bug in which the SQL language guesser was a little too enthusiastic, and would guess files as MySQL that weren’t.

• Fixed a bug where if “Save Default Window” was applied to a browser with a collapsed editor view, the next instance of the window would incorrectly show the editor view at its minimum size.

• Fixed a bug in the Ruby module which would cause a multi-line, general delimited input string (%+string+) to fold incorrectly (the closing fold point was one character too soon).

• Fixed a bug in the Ruby module where Begin/End blocks could cause fold points to be be placed at seemingly random places in the document.

• Fixed a bug in the Ruby module where complete for or while loops, written on a single line and within curly braces, could throw off the folding for the entire document.

• Fixed a bug in the TeX module in which a $math$ section within a {required param}, where the $math$ section contained a closing curly brace (e.g. \caption{foo $i_{0}$ foo}), would confuse the parser. This tended to manifest as incorrect autofolds and improper indentation in the function popup.

• When auto-saving, documents that have not yet been saved or have unsaved changes now retain additional state information that cannot be reproduced from the document on disk.

• Fixed bug in which choosing certain text encodings (for example, “Chinese (GB18030)”) from the encoding menu would rewrite the document’s charset declaration with a junk string.

• If an HTML/XML document has a character set declaration that specifies UTF-16, but the document has already been eliminated as a UTF-16 document, the charset declaration is ignored. This resolves the problem which arises if you save a document as UTF-8, manually edit the charset declaration, and save again, rendering the document unopenable by BBEdit.

• Fixed a bug where Check Syntax for Python didn’t show a results browser when using Python 2.6.x.

• Fixed an edge case in the C folds generator where cuddled braces didn’t generate the correct fold range when at the left margin.

• Fixed a bug where the contextual menu contained disabled search commands (instead of omitting them) when the selection range was empty.

• Deleted what appears to be a stray line in the PHP predefined names list.

• Fixed crash which would occur when trying to drag a project window from the Windows palette and no document selected in the project (or the editing view collapsed).

• Files which are +x and begin with a shebang (#!) are now assumed to be text files.

• When doing a Save As, if the document’s name already ends in the recommended extension, we won’t add the recommended extension again.

• Fixed bug in which some open documents were left out of the saved application state if the auto-save interval triggered while in the process of reviewing unsaved documents.

• Fixed bug which prevented language guessing from working when doing a “New (with Clipboard)”.

• The Ruby module will no longer detect regular expressions as the first token immediately after a string or another regular expression. This resolves a syntax coloring bug found with the syntax used by the Merb framework (which uses an overloaded ”/” method.)

• Fixed bug in which a Subversion source control configuration didn’t properly record the password you entered when creating it in the Preferences window.

• Fixed bug in which closing the Multi-File Search window had the side effect of turning off “Wrap Around” for future interactive searches.

• Application state restoration (reopening documents that were opened the last time you quit or slept the app) now honors Projects:RememberOpenDocuments and will not reopen documents that were open in a project window.

• Fixed bug in which the cursor position display was initially incorrect in new editing windows created from existing documents.

• Fixed bug in which using a keyboard equivalent for an item on the Text Options menu in the Scratchpad would cause a drawing artifact in the Scratchpad window’s toolbar.

• Fixed a bug where temporary files written for ‘Preview in BBEdit’ through a local web server were written incorrectly, resulting in ‘gremlins’ appearing in the preview window.

• Updated the built-in list of VectorScript keywords, and added a list of predefined names, suitable for completion duty.