Bbedit Lite Quickstart

This QuickStart document provides a brief overview of some of the commands available in BBEdit Lite. For more general information about BBEdit Lite, consult the "About BBEdit Lite" document. The topics covered in this document are: * Installation * Creating and Saving Documents * Editing Documents - Key Equivalents * More on Wrapping * Printing * Searching * Multi-File Searching * Preferences Dialog * Parting Shots --- Installation BBEdit Lite consists of the following major components: * The BBEdit Lite application itself * The "BBEdit Extensions" folder, which contains plug-in code modules that can provide specialized text processing or utility functions Only the BBEdit Lite application file is required in order to run and use BBEdit Lite; you do not need to have any BBEdit extensions. If you are planning to install the whole set of BBEdit Lite files, create a "BBEdit Lite Folder". Copy the application and the "BBEdit Extensions" folder into your BBEdit Lite Folder. --- Creating and Saving Documents To create a new document within BBEdit Lite, choose "New" from the File menu. An empty editing window will be opened on the screen. You can type in this window, paste text from another document or application, or do anything else which causes text to be placed in this window. If you are using System 6 or System 7, you can use the Finder to open files created by BBEdit Lite by double-clicking on them. Once you have opened a new window and done some basic editing, you can save your new document. To do this, choose the "Save As..." command from the File menu. Type in the name of your new file and click on "Save". --- Editing Documents In terms of its basic editing functionality, BBEdit Lite behaves like any other word processor or text editor on the Macintosh: any typed characters are inserted at the insertion point; if there is a selection present, the selection is replaced by the first typed character, and the insertion point is placed after the first typed character. The insertion point is indicated by a blinking vertical bar. If there is any text selected in the active (or front) window, it is highlighted using your Mac's default highlight color. If there is text selected in a window that is inactive (not the front window), it is framed in the highlight color. As you type, BBEdit Lite scrolls the window's contents so that the insertion point is visible. Unless you have the "Soft Wrap Text" option selected, the window may scroll horizontally as you type. To move text from one place to another, select the text you wish to move, and choose the "Cut" command from the Edit menu. The selected text will be deleted, and placed in a special area called the "Clipboard". (The Clipboard always contains the last text that you cut or copied.) You can then use the "Paste" command on the Edit menu to place the text elsewhere in the doc…