TextWrangler 4.5.1.3280 for Mac OS X

Powerful and richly-featured tool for composing, modifying, and transforming text stored in plain-text files.

At its most basic, a text editor is a tool for simply editing text. You can use a text editor for a wide variety of tasks from cleaning up data, to editing configuration files on your Mac or server, to writing HTML or coding.

Features:

• General Purpose Text Editor
• Programmer's Text Editor
• Unix And Server Administrator's Tool
• Powerful Text Transformer And Manipulator
• Good Mac OS Citizen
• Powerfully Useful Tool.

What's New:

• There is a new folder in Application Support/TextWrangler/, named Setup. It contains data that previously was stored either in the application preferences or in the com.barebones.textwrangler.preferenceData folder that was in ~/Library/Preferences/. Specifically: file filters, FTP/SFTP bookmarks, Grep patterns, and key bindings are stored here.
• The ability of TextWrangler to search inside of compressed files can now be controlled by a new option in the Multi-File Search window's "Options" sheet: "Search compressed files." When turned off, BBEdit will skip Zip, gz, and bz2 files while searching, even if they may contain compressed text files.
• The twfind tool has been updated with a new option: -C (or --no-compressed-files), which if present suppresses the searching of Zip/gz/bz2 files as described above.
• There's a new command on the View menu, "Show File List" (or "Hide File List"). When an MDI window is in front, this command quickly toggles the visibility of the list(s) on the left.
• Discrete Change Case options are now available on a submenu below the main "Change Case" command.
• FTP browsers get a "Manage Bookmarks" command, which opens the Setup window and selects the Bookmarks list.
• The Find and Multi-File Search windows get "Manage Patterns" and "Manage Filters" commands, which open the Setup window and select the Patterns (and Filters, respectively) lists.
• There's a new command, on the Application menu: "Setup." This opens a window for configuring saved bookmarks, file filters, and Grep patterns. Use the "+" button to add something, "-" to remove it, double-click (or Enter) to edit.
• The View menu now has commands for toggling the visibility of various sections in the project/MDI file list. (These commands will show or hide the section entirely, versus using the disclosure triangle to collapse or expand them.) You can assign keyboard equivalents in the Menus and Shortcuts preferences, if desired.
• There's a new expert preference: "AutoShowFileList". By default, it's set to YES, but if you set it to `NO', the file list will not automatically become visible when you open the second document into an editing window:
  • defaults write com.barebones.textwrangler AutoShowFileList -bool NO
• You can now use the "Menus and Shortcuts" preferences pane to assign key shortcuts for Scripts, Stationery, and Text Filters.
• FTP browsers get a "Kind" column.
• When MDI is turned on, documents are now opened (or created) in something that looks and behaves substantially like a project window. The Documents Drawer has been retired: use the file list on the left for navigation, or the document menu in the navigation bar. The "Show Documents Drawer" command has been removed from the View menu, the document drawer icon has been removed from the toolbar.
• The file list is manually reorderable, which addresses a longstanding request from heavy users of the drawer.
• There is a new preference in the Application preferences, subordinate to "Reopen documents that were open at last quit". The new setting, "Restore unsaved documents", causes TextWrangler to capture any unsaved document contents when you quit (including untitled documents) and restore them when it starts up. If you prefer the previous Quit behavior, turn this preference off.
• There is a new command on the File menu: "Print Selection". When chosen, it will print the selected range of text in the document.
• There's a new control in the Editor preferences: "Line Spacing". You can use this to adjust the amount of space between lines of text in editing views. The minimum value is consistent with previous versions of TextWrangler.
• Verilog and VHDL language modules are now built in. These were previously written by Yasuhisa Kato.
• The "Text Colors" preferences now add an interface for loading and saving color schemes. The format for color scheme files is the same one used by BBColors and in fact, TextWrangler will import any BBColors files that you have created. Color schemes live in ~/Library/Application Support/TextWrangler/Color Schemes/.
  • Note: Using the bbcolors command-line tool to make color changes will have no effect in TextWrangler 4.
• Added support for the include command/directive in ActionScript files. Included files are now listed in the file inclusions popup.
• TextWrangler now stores document state for files opened using the built-in FTP/SFTP interface.
• Simple Emacs repetitions (ctl-U followed by a number) can now be used to insert repetitions of a single character. Try this:
• ctl-U 80 -(that is, type Control-U, the numeral 80, and then press the "-" key)
• For languages backed by a codeless language module, TextWrangler now generates fold points for delimited blocks. (A good example of this is the "Go" language module, available at http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/plugin_library.html, but there are no doubt others.)