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…

BBEdit Lite Quickstart.txt About BBEdit Lite ===== ====== ==== BBEdit Lite 4.1 is a freeware derivative of BBEdit 4.5, the popular and critically acclaimed text and HTML editor for Web authors, programmers, on-line-service users, and anyone else who needs to edit plain-text files. BBEdit Lite is shipped with this QuickStart document which describes many of the application's features. Please note that this file is the only documentation available for BBEdit Lite. Full documentation, as well as a considerable amount of additional functionality, is available with the purchase of BBEdit 4.5. See the document "How do I order BBEdit 4.5" for details on obtaining your own copy of BBEdit. We are committed to providing continued support for BBEdit Lite by responding to individual questions and inquiries, as well as in providing fixes for Lite, and improvements in its functionality. We will announce any future changes or updates to Lite via the comp.sys.mac.* newsgroups, as well as by providing information and downloadable versions on our Web and ftp sites. We regret that we cannot offer telephone or fax support for BBEdit Lite; if you have any suggestions, comments, or questions regarding Lite, please send us email at <support@barebones.com>. Overview ======== BBEdit Lite Capabilities ------ ---- ------------ BBEdit Lite offers a great deal of useful functionality: * Powerful multi-file search. BBEdit Lite offers the usual multi-file search, in which a disk directory is scanned and the files are opened one at a time; however, BBEdit Lite can also display the search results in a window for easy browsing (and selected entries in the window can be opened for display). The search can also be limited to files that are already opened for editing, or to files which were already found in a previous multi-file search. BBEdit Lite also offers multi-file replace capability for automated "search and destroy" operations. * File size limited only by available memory. BBEdit Lite's default partition size is 1221K (only 650K with VM or RAMDoubler) of RAM. This can be set as low as 450K, to make BBEdit Lite the ideal constantly-resident editor for small to moderate tasks, or turned up as high as necessary to edit many large files or perform large-scale search-and-replace operations. BBEdit Lite automatically takes advantage of available system memory, so that you don't have to adjust its partition size to edit large files. * No hard limit on number of files open. The number of files that BBEdit Lite can have open at once is limited by available memory, and can be increased or decreased by adjusting BBEdit Lite's partition size as appropriate. * Easy manipulation of multiple files at once. The "Open Several..." command makes it possible to open multiple files from different folders at once, and the Save and Print commands can operate on all open files…