To delete to the right of your cursor (say, on a MacBook keyboard that lacks a right-delete button, you used to be able to set a preference that would make Shift-Delete do that. More distractions.īBEdit 10 Preferences from taupecat on Vimeo.īut not only all of that, but some options are now missing entirely from the preferences system. But as I do, the preference window resizes for each category, creating a whole lot of unnecessary movement. Now the preference window sports cutesy icons in the left sidebar (a Groucho nose and glasses? Really?), renaming almost every category so that I have to go hunting for the right tab. Not to mention the overall design of the preference window itself. Certainly, the preferences were growing out of control with options to customize almost any aspect of the program, but what BareBones chose to remove has left me scratching my head in bemusement. One of BBEdit 10’s biggest interface overhauls was in its preference window. BBEdit should at the very least make the sidebar’s position a preference. I want the left edge of my content to be anchored to that left edge of my monitor, unmoving. Anything you have to think about beyond the code you’re trying to write is a distraction which takes away from your focus. In short, it’s hard for my eyes to know exactly where the left edge of my content is. BBEdit 10 window with the document sidebar on the left. The built-in keyboard shortcut to hide this panel is CMD-0 (zero), which in of itself is not obvious, but now this is causing the left edge of the document to shift back and forth. This may sound like a small change, but now my eyes have to find the left edge of the document somewhere closer so the middle of the screen. Now, open documents in the same window are listed in a sidebar on the left, and the document itself is on the right. Since I read and write in English (well, HTML and PHP), going left to right, my content was left aligned where my eyes were comfortable finding it. So for years my eyes have been used to seeing my document on the left edge of my monitor, and a document drawer on my right, which I assigned a keyboard shortcut to show and hide at will. The document drawer has been on the right side of the screen since its introduction. I guess I’m going to be in the minority for not heaping praise upon BBEdit’s new update, version 10. However, as a long-time user (I think I started using it somewhere around version 4, IIRC), there have been enough changes in this version to throw my whole workflow out of whack, including one key feature (for me at least) that’s now gone altogether.
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