Okay, I did it! My language module for writing song lyrics with #BBEdit will detect sections in the format of [Verse 1], [Chorus] etc and let you fold them, and also let you use three dashes at the top to block out metadata like title, key, tempo. Neat.
I'd like to colorize chord names as well, but I don't know a way to do that other than listing every possible chord you can play in a list of keywords. #BBEdit
I want to make a codeless language module for #BBEdit for my lyrics, but I'm not exactly sure how to do it. It's kind of like Markdown, so theoretically it should be doable.
Trying to decide if storing song lyrics as a #BBEdit Notebook or Project makes more sense? The nice thing about having them in Apple Notes is that I don't have to do any extra to work for them to sync, but for text that doesn't need formatting, BBEdit has a way better editing experience, plus the possibility of adding little scripts and things.
I don't know if it's worth annotating my own music using this ChordPro format or not. Maybe? I could pretty easily write a #BBEdit language module for it. If you wanted to get really fancy, you could even write a visual editor that saves and reads this format. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChordPro
Can someone explain why opening a package-type file in BBEdit shows its structure and underlying files, but Sublime Text just shows me hex data? I don’t understand the package file format super well #macos#bbedit#texteditors
Hey there's a new version of the best Mac app on the market. #BBEdit 15 is out with a million new features. I have relied on BBEdit to write almost everything I have ever written and it has never once failed me, crashed, lost a document. It's the best software that has ever been shipped on a #Mac. Go try it! #Applehttps://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/notes-15.0.html
@Bachus@bbedit I’m no fan of #ChatGPT or the current “#AI" hype, but #BBEdit merely wired up a special window to #OpenAI's API and you still have to provide a key. Bare Bones neither sees your data, makes any money from OpenAI, or exposes anything outside of those worksheet windows to them.
If it helps, think of it as a text-only web browser for https://chat.openai.com that you can pretend doesn't exist.
I hate the meaningless marketing written drivel that app update notices have become. You would think detailing what bugs were fixed was akin to admitting guilt in a capital crime the way they avoid saying anything of value. Instead it is all variants of bug fixes and improvements. No shit b*tch
I recently used #BBEdit’s great search (using grep expressions) and the “Extract” feature which extracts all matches to a new file to slice and dice some XML (a property list to be precise). Yes, I could have written some XSLT to do this but it would have taken a lot longer and considerably more cognitive effort and run more slowly.
BBEdit: cmd-f, enter the grep expression, press the extract button. DONE.
Use the Pattern Playground if you need to tune/verify the grep expression in real time.
Long-shot question, but is there some way for #BBEdit to replicate this auto-indentation from TextMate (and like every other editor)? Writing #Python in BBEdit is such a tedious process because I have to indent manually and that causes many “IndentationError” errors.