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- What's New in BBEdit Lite 3.5
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- This document provides a quick overview of what's new in BBEdit Lite
- 3.5, relative to version 3.0. In general, many improvements and
- refinements have been made to the user interface, and a number of
- performance enhancements and bug fixes are also included.
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- PowerPC Performance
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- BBEdit Lite now contains some PowerPC code, to improve performance
- when opening and editing large files.
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- "Soft" Text Wrapping
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- BBEdit Lite 3.5 features "soft" text wrapping, in which long lines of
- text are automatically wrapped to the width of the editing window,
- without using carriage returns. As you insert and delete text, BBEdit
- Lite will automatically re-flow the text as necessary. The "Soft
- Wrap Text" option replaces the old "Wrap While Typing" option.
-
- New "Find" Dialog
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- The Find dialog (which comes up when you choose "Find..." from the
- Search menu) has been expanded and revised for more functionality
- and greater ease of use. All of the options from BBEdit Lite 3.0
- are present, but you no longer have to flip pages in the dialog
- in order to access the multi-file search options. In addition,
- you can now hide the multi-file search options by clicking the
- small triangle to the left of the "Multi-File Search" check box.
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- A "Start at Top" option has been added. When this option is selected,
- BBEdit Lite will always search forward from the beginning of the file,
- regardless of where the current selection range may be.
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- Updated Menus
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- BBEdit Lite now uses Ramon Felciano's "Mercutio" menu definition.
- In addition to being more compatible than the previous approach,
- Mercutio also makes "alternative" keyboard equivalents visible
- while menus are pulled down. (To see this in action, pull down
- the File menu, and slowly press and release the Option key.)
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- Improved "Get Info" dialog
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- The Get Info dialog has been expanded to provide character, word, and
- line counts for both the selection range and the entire documents. To
- compute the page count for the selection range and entire document,
- click the "Paginate" button. The "Copy Path" button will place the full
- path of the front document onto the Clipboard, ready for pasting into
- an edit window or into another application.
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- Simplified Preferences
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- The "Zap Gremlins" and "Hard Wrap" commands now remember their settings
- after you quit BBEdit. As a result, the "Wrapping" and "Zapping"
- sections of the Preferences dialog are no longer required, and have
- been removed.
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- In addition, the "Preferences" dialog has been revised for greater
- ease of use. All available preferences are listed on the left-hand
- side of the Preferences dialog; you can click on any one of the
- items to make that page of the dialog available.
-
- Simplified State
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- The "Remember File State" option controls whether or not BBEdit Lite
- remembers a document's state information (window position and size, font
- settings, display and printing options, and more). Version 3.5 no longer
- differentiates between the different state resource formats, but instead
- saves the state information in a format that is compatible with all
- modern text editors and development environments. (The Remember File
- State option for each document can be found on the file options popup in
- each window's status area, and can be set for all new documents in the
- "State" section of the Preferences dialog.)
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- Bug Fixes
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- As of BBEdit Lite 3.5.1, the following reported problems have been fixed:
-
- - Page numbers are now printed correctly, i.e. "Page M of N", instead
- of "MN".
-
- - Some character spacing anomalies when printing in Monaco on laser
- printers have been worked around. Monaco remains a problematic font,
- however - we recommend the use of Courier or ProFont.
-
- - A bug which prevented the opening of 'PICT' files has been
- corrected.
-
- - When bringing up the "Find..." dialog for the first time in a
- session, the popup area next to the "File Type" prompt would be
- blank. It now correctly displays "All Available".
-
- - The diamonds in the Windows menu are now properly updated each
- time you pull down the Windows menu.
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- - The items on the Edit menu are now correctly enabled when a
- dialog box is being displayed.
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- - The items in the Windows menu are now properly updated after
- performing a "Save As" operation.
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- As of BBEdit Lite 3.5, the following reported problems have been fixed:
-
- - Multi-file replace operations no longer skip every other file.
-
- - The "Indent All Lines" option for "Hard Wrap" now works correctly
- when wrapping multiple paragraphs.
-
- - "Zap Gremlins" now properly zaps the forward-delete (ASCII 127)
- character when "Zap Control Characters" is activated in the
- dialog.
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