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Recent changes in BBEdit:

• Language sensitive: Compiled and codeless language modules generate information that BBEdit uses to indicate automatic fold points.
• Manual: You can select any range of text in any kind of document and fold it. Or you can use “Balance & Fold” to quickly collapse a range of text in between matching parentheses, braces, brackets, or curly quotes.
• Formerly known as the Glossary, BBEdit’s powerful Clippings system provides quick access to frequently used pieces of text.
• Easier clipping creation: New “Save as Clipping” and “Save Selection as Clipping” make it much simpler than before to create new clippings and sets.
• Clippings menu: Provides quick access to clippings sets, clippings in the currently active set, and commands to insert and manage clippings.
• Improved “Insert Clipping” with auto-completion: “Insert Clipping” now brings up a panel that allows you to search for clippings by name. If you’ve typed a partial word before choosing Insert Clipping, BBEdit will use the word to auto-complete the clipping.
• BBEdit’s rich Preferences interface has been enhanced and revised for greater usability and control.
• Show and hide individual menu commands—or entire menus: Use the new “Menus” preferences to turn off menus and commands that you never use, to get them out of sight and out of mind.
• Organizational improvements: The Preferences window and controls have been enlarged for easier reading, and preferences have been reorganized into fewer preference panels. Unused Searching: Can’t find a preference setting? No problem! Just open the search drawer in the Preferences window, start typing, and BBEdit will list the preferences whose names or concepts match what you’ve typed.
• Version 8.5 features even more improvements to BBEdit’s already legendary code-editing abilities.
• Per-language editing and display options: Set different text colors for different languages; control soft wrap, spell checking, and more on a per-language basis; selectively show and hide status bar and navigation bar elements.
• Codeless Language Module improvements: Use regular expressions to define function bodies for greater flexibility.
• Ruby, YAML, and SQL: Built-in syntax coloring and function navigation; SQL support includes generic SQL, MS Transact-SQL, MySQL, Oracle PL/SQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Improved JavaScript support: improved handling of object-oriented JavaScript, and display of anonymous functions.
• This release of BBEdit features extensive user interface refinements.BBEdit 8.5 Application Icon
• Editing window overhaul: The tool bar has been simplified, and elements that used to be hidden under popup menus are now visible in the editing view for easier access.
• UI buff and polish: HIG updates to dialog and alert window layouts and contents.
• And even… new application and document icons.
• Indented soft wrapping: Wrapped lines can now be indented to the window’s left margin, to the same level as the beginning of the line, or reverse indented.
• Improved disk browsers: Hierarchical file list, with available file filtering.
• Sub-line differences: When comparing files using Find Differences, BBEdit shows you the differences in words within each line of differences.
• Read, write, and search gzip (.gz) files: How cool is that?
• Auto-save: Periodic snapshot of unsaved documents to avoid data loss in the event of power failures or system crashes.
• PCRE 5.0: Extended regular-expression matching engine adds support for named subexpressions and many other new features.

OS requirements for BBEdit:

• OS: Mac OS X