What is BBEdit?
BBEdit is the leading professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. Specifically designed in response to the needs of Web authors and software developers, this award-winning product offers plenty of high-performance features for editing, searching, and manipulating text. It has a smart interface, providing easy access to bbedit's best features, including grep pattern matching, multi-file search and replacement, design definition tools, function navigation and syntax for numerous source languages, code folding, FTP and SFTP, AppleScript, MacOS Unix scriptsupport, text and code completion, and of course, a complete set of robust HTML markup tools.
With BBEdit, you can...
Exercise full control over the text
Use bbedit's legendary word processing power in any Automator workflow
- Create, edit, format, or clean any type of text, anywhere
- Use BBEdit's numerous built-in functions for text conversion, ordering, searching, and replacement
- Find and manipulate large volumes of text in small amounts of time with powerful text search, including regular expression matching and multi-file search with file filtering
- Quickly perform repetitive, unscripted or programming text processing tasks with Text Factories. Quickly and easily build a series of transformations and apply them to any number of documents
Work your way
- Dive well, because BBEdit works exactly as you expect, with all the Mac behavior you depend on, from keyboard shortcuts to support for the latest Mac technologies such as Bonjour.
- Customize menu keys (keyboard shortcuts)
- Create your own functions for BBEdit using your favorite scripting language with comprehensive support for AppleScript, Automator Perl, and Unix Shell
- You can even modify the behavior of embedded menus using AppleScript because BBEdit is dockable
- Text completion speed input and ensures correction; create Clippings for immediate access to frequently used items and custom tags; with menu-driven and key-driven item selection; Language-sensitive Clipping sets
- Create your own syntax coloring without programming
- Use BBEdit with macOS Terminal
- Command Files, Folders, Disks, and Servers
- Use disk and FTP browsers for viewing and opening files on local and remote volumes
- Edit files in disk browsers, search results windows of various files, project windows. Even edit a single file in multiple windows!
Enjoy textual omnipotence
- Quickly tell what's happening with customizable color syntax for more than 20 languages and invisible character display, tab stops, and current line highlighting
- Browse your documents easily with Function Popup, custom place markers, and support for lush ctag indexing
- See the structure of your code using automatic indentation, line numbering, and code folding
- Easily navigate across multiple documents
- Document statistics and selection (character, word, and line count) shown at the bottom of all windows
Meet the standards
- Reduce coding errors with BBEdit's automated HTML and CSS markup tools (including HTML5 support)
- Ensure compliance with appropriate standards and code structure (for entire sites, entire pages, page fragments, and generated code) using BBEdit's built-in HTML syntax verification
- Preview your site directly in BBEdit even if it uses PHP, JSP, or other server-side processing methods
- Use the macOS spelling checker to detect these embarrassing errors before the rest of the world sees them
Smoothly integrate with existing workflows
- Use bbedit's legendary word processing power in any Automator workflow
- Manage code and access reviews with integrated source control management, including support for Subversion, Perforce, and Git
- Use advanced Unix scripts on macOS with built-in Perl, Python, Ruby, and shell script support
- Read and transparently write DOS/Windows, Unix and Unicode text files (UTF-8 and UTF-16) for maximum cross-platform compatibility
- Invoke BBEdit location differences from the command line and your favorite source control management system with bbdiff
- Perform searches of multiple files from the command line with bbfind
- Use Shell Worksheets to match bbedit power with shell power
System Requirements
macOS 10.11.6 or later
