[TxMt] Re: [OT] BBEdit, virtues thereof

[Chris Thomas]

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