If BBEdit is bare bones, then Fat Albert is supermodel skinny. The
versatile text editor can do so many things, we think it may contain
some sort of alien technology. Bare Bones Software’s latest update,
BBEdit 9, may well be the ultimate toolbox for coding on a Mac.
When
we say text editor, of course, we are talking about a hugely different
category from the word processors that “normal people” use. You won’t
find fancy fonts, templates, or glitzy charts; instead, you will find
color-coding, line numbers, and pure, unadulterated, text (exciting
stuff, right?). Back in the olden days, programmers swore by vi or
Emacs, but GUI’d text editors have introduced so much functionality
that you wonder sometimes whether you’re writing the code or the app
is. BBEdit’s feature set is enormous, and some might call the app the
gold standard of text editing.
