BBEdit 9.1 is Out!

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Amazingly, BBEdit 9.1 had just the feature I was hoping it'd add - stripping white space at the end of lines. I do that a lot - even have a macro for it, but now I don't have to. Just set it up in the Text Files preferences pane and every time you save, it's going to strip those nasty trailing whitespace characters.

The release notes have a lot more - like a new font: Consolas Regular. It's remarkably like my current favorite: Panic Sans from the guys at Panic who distributed it with Coda, their all-in-one web development app. It's clean, clear, and the only difference I can see is that the point sizes are a little different. Consolas 10pt is Panis Sans 9pt. That's it.

Yet there's even more. BBEdit 9.1 has a much improved FTP/SFTP interface that is supposed to be much faster than the previous version. Excellent. RCS keywords are handled better - it's amazing, really. The list goes on and on. It's still my favorite editor on the Mac.

UPDATE: I've been looking at the new Consolas font and how it differs from Panic Sans... it's got more white space above and below the line. More even, than the same point size in Panic Sans. Meaning that if Consolas 10pt is the same horizontal size as Panic Sans 9pt it's got more vertical room than Panis Sans 10pt. That's very interesting. More whitespace in between the lines may make this more readable while making the horizonal compression able to get more columns in the same real-estate. Interesting.