Bbedit Notes

BBEdit Notes Page 1 of 8 Printed: Thursday, August 4, 2022 1:51:18 PM Before using BBEdit, you should be comfortable with using a word processor (such as MacWrite), or some other text editor. GENERAL INFORMATION BBEdit is a multiple-document text editor; you can have an arbitrarily large number of windows open, with each window containing a different document. The number of documents you can open at once is limited only by available memory; the maximum size of each document is likewise dependent on available memory. BBEdit supports editing features such as a changeable tab width and automatic indentation, and offers convenience features such as en-masse Save, Close, and Print commands, and the ability to print in a font and size other than the font and size used when editing - for example, you can edit a document in the Monaco font, 9 point size, but you may wish to print it out using the Courier 6 point font in order to minimize paper usage. BBEdit works in fairly traditional fashion; in the interests of brevity and minimal obfuscation, only those features unique to BBEdit are described in following sections. CREATING AND OPENING DOCUMENTS New editing windows can be created by choosing "New" from the File menu; newly created windows are stacked down and to the left, and are set up for editing in Monaco 9. To open an existing text file, use the "Open" or "Open Several" commands from the File menu. The "Open Several" dialog box allows you to open many files from different disks and folders. The left half of the dialog behaves in much the same fashion as a traditional Open box, except for the addition of the "Add" and "Add All" buttons. To dismiss the dialog, click the "Cancel" button on the right half of the dialog, or the "Done" button, which is next to it. Instead of dimissing the dialog, double-clicking on a file adds it to the list on the right half of the dialog. This list is the list of files to be opened; you can add a file to it by double-clicking the file, pressing the Return or Enter keys, or clicking the "Add" button. If a folder is selected, the "Add" button becomes the "Open" button, and clicking the "Open" button or double-clicking the folder opens the folder. The "Remove" button can be used to remove selected files from the list of files to be opened. Files in this list can be selected by clicking on their names; Shift-clicking extends the selection to consecutive files, and Command-clicking allows you to select files out of order. The "Add All" button will add all files in the current folder to the list of files to be opened. When you click the "Done" button, all files on the list will be opened, provided that there is enough available memory to open them all. You can also open files in BBEdit by selecting their icons in the Finder and choosing "Open" under the Finder's "File" menu. Of you open documents create…