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Integrate Smoothly Into Existing Workflows
- use BBEdit’s legendary text processing power in any Automator Workflow
- manage code revisions and access with integrated Source Control Management, including support for CVS, Perforce and Subversion
- connect to Macromedia® Dreamweaver® for seamless visual-editing integration
- utilize advanced Unix scripting on Mac OS X with built-in Perl, Python, Ruby, and shell scripting support; use Affrus for Perl debugging
- transparently reads and writes DOS/Windows, Unix, and Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) text files for maximum cross-platform compatibility
- invoke BBEdit’s Find Differences from the command-line and from within your favorite Source Control Management system with “bbdiff”
- use Shell Worksheets to combine the power of BBEdit with the power of the shell
Automator Actions provided by BBEdit
There’s so much to BBEdit and Automator, it deserves its own page.
Enhanced Unicode support ( top )
All of BBEdit’s powerful, built-in text transformations are Unicode-aware and can safely be used to process Unicode content. The “Reopen using Encoding” command makes it easy to reinterpret a recently opened text document in a different text encoding, thus neatly solving the problem of documents that contain incorrect information as to their actual text encoding.
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Dreamweaver integration ( top )
BBEdit integrates smoothly with Dreamweaver providing best of class hand-tooled HTML with best-of-class WYSIWYG editing.
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Enhanced SCM support ( top )
Direct integration with Subversion: BBEdit’s Subversion menu includes the commands: Revert, Update to Head, Update to Revision, Commit, Update Working Copy, Commit Working Copy, Show Working Copy Status, Compare Revisions, Compare Arbitrary Revisions, Compare with Base, Compare with Previous, Compare with Head, Resolved, Show Annotation, Show Revision History, Add, Delete, Go to Previous Conflict, Go to Next Conflict, and Open Log File.
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Perforce (the leading commercial source code management (SCM) system) increases productivity for developers using BBEdit. BBEdit’s attractive GUI makes Perforce more approachable for new and prospective Perforce users, as well as “switchers” coming to Mac OS X from other platforms. BBEdit features integrated support for working with files stored in Perforce depots, including add/delete, edit/revert, revision comparison, synchronization, submission, and conflict resolution.
BBEdit supports multiple source-control configurations, making it easy for BBEdit customers to stay up to date with, and contribute to, multiple projects which use version control systems (CVS, SVN or Perforce) to manage source code.
Finally, the built-in support for version control systems uses BBEdit’s editing environment for writing the comments included when committing changed files.
Affrus Integration ( top )
Affrus is a powerful new Perl development environment from Late Night Software, (the developers of Script Debugger, our preferred AppleScript script editor). BBEdit features integration with Affrus, both by functioning as an external editor using the “Edit in BBEdit” protocol and by providing the option to use Affrus to debug Perl scripts when run from within BBEdit.
bbdiff ( top )
The new “bbdiff” command-line tool allows you to invoke BBEdit’s powerful “Find Differences” command from the Unix command line. CVS, Perforce and SVN can even be configured to use BBEdit to view the differences between file revisions.
Shell Worksheets ( top )
BBEdit’s Shell Worksheets are much more than a terminal—they’re the best of both the shell and BBEdit!
Find out what’s new in BBEdit 9. Or check out the full feature list.