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I've found that the latest version of BBEdit feels quite slow on older machines. That surprised me, as older versions were quite snappy. Unchecking "Check spelling as you type" in the Editor Defaults group of the BBEdit Preferences, though, removed the spinning beachball from my workspace, and BBEdit is now its snappy old self again.
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Another sure fix is to use TextMate
Best text editor out there.
Another sure fix is to use TextMate
I use both. Each has some advantages. Each has some quirks. It kinda depends on what you are doing. If you do some language intensive programming, and have mastered one of the speciaty templates for it, Textmate canbe a powerful IDE. On the other hand it bury's a lot of simple tasks under layers of wide and deep menus (e.g. zap gremlins) that bbedit exposes.
Another sure fix is to use TextMate
Gotta agree with you there! BB is yesterday's fashion statement; TextMate is tomorrow's. :)
Another sure fix is to use TextMate
I also use both, BBEdit still rocks on many occassions. <br>Lately I wanted to print some Ruby code from TextMate. Shock! Horror! Everything was printed in a huge font, not colour coded etc. Back to BBEdit, just to print! <br>Then I wanted to edit some files on a remote server. Wait, where's the menu item in TextMate to do this? Oh, it doesn't exist (yet).
Another sure fix is to use TextMate
I too use both. BBEdit search and replace and file comparison is just killer, but all else I use TextMate.
other settings
BBedit has a number of things that can slow it down. A big one is frequently background the checks it does to see if a file currently being edited has changed on disk. This gets particularly pernicious if there is some slow filesystem mounted.
other settings
Another big thing is that its code is old. It's not native to Mac OS X.
other settings
Another big thing is that its code is old. Code doesn't slow down as it ages. :-) In fact, applications that have been around for a while tend to be very highly tuned as the result of years of successive refinement and optimization. "New and shiny" is not always better than "seasoned and mature". It's not native to Mac OS X. How do you know this; do you have access to the source code? I only ask because BBEdit's been around a very long time, and it's every inch a native Mac OS X application. So to say that it's "not native to Mac OS X" suggests that you have intimate knowledge of the innermost construction of the software. Do you? To the original question: if something's not working the way you think it should, you can always ask for help from the people who wrote the software :-). I wouldn't want to speculate on the origin of the original symptoms without more information...
other settings
BBedit has a number of things that can slow it down. A big one is frequently background the checks it does to see if a file currently being edited has changed on disk. This gets particularly pernicious if there is some slow filesystem mounted. BBEdit doesn't check for file changes while you type. In the "Application" preferences (in BBEdit 8.5 and later; they're elsewhere in older versions) there is a collection of settings that controls when BBEdit verifies open files. "As you type" is not among the options. However, if turning off one or more of these settings solves your observed symptoms, far be it from me to complain. :-)
One possible fix for slowdowns in BBEdit
it's not really a performance slowdown, but more of a process slowdown in BBEdit that i came across: for over a year now, the Search Selection Only feature has not worked properly. it seems to be a newer bug. BareBones is aware of the problem (i've emailed them several times) but no fix has been made. |
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