On Mar 19, 2005, at 12:25 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
Another aspect for which BBEdit is often praised is its worksheets, especially its MPW implementation and its codewarrior integration. I've never used either so I can't comment.
MPW-style worksheets are basically Terminal in a text window. You can almost get the same effect in any TextMate window by typing command- r. The essential difference is that the environment is maintained (per-window) across command invocations, and you can perform interactive commands. It's very productive for command-line work: it means never having to fire up Terminal, and it also means not having to care whether or not GNU readline is available for things like irb. This would be a great thing to have in TextMate.
I haven't used BBEdit's implementation recently enough to give an opinion on it, however. MPW's implementation was great, although saddled of course with all the unfortunate MPW historical cruft (extremely non-standard variants of Unix tools, regex based on upper 8-bit MacRoman characters, etc).
Chris