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  kennywinker
  In 1998 bbedit 5.0 cost $120 usd. Adjusted for inflation that would be about $245 usd.Today an individual license costs $60.Wild how software pricing and sales models have changed, and good on bare bones for staying away from subscription pricing.
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  LeoPanthera
  My search for a "just a text editor" ended with "CotEditor". It's Mac native, not Electron, and supports both RTL and vertical text. All I could ever want.
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  classichasclass
  Proud user since the classic Mac OS days (anyone else remember the OpenDoc version?), and it's still a solid editor at a good price.
• ChrisMarshallNY
  I just checked, and it looks like I have been using BBEdit for almost 35 years (It was initially shareware).Siegel still manages it (I don't know if he is still the main coder). He never sold out.
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  kstrauser
  I use Zed more now, but BBEdit's still pretty great. I love, love, LOVE that I can extend it with shell scripts or Python tools or Rust apps or whatever else I have laying around. Sometimes I don't want to write a whole plugin, let alone in JavaScript or whatever. I just want to say "process this text with this tool" and have it work. BBEdit's second to none for that.
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  headwayoldest
  I have used and loved Barebones stuff in the past, but strikes me as odd they're still advertising Yojimbo on their main page. It was fantastic, but has been abandoned for quite some time.
• KenSF
  It still doesn't suck.
• _HMCB_
  Love to see this app trending on HN.
• steviedotboston
  Love BBEdit!
• gnerd00
  So great to see this -- the last version of BBedit I paid for is the gold standard for me, for editors... I mean compared to twenty other editors of various kinds on desktop Linux and elsewhere..
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  jfb
  I wonder if it will ever get emacs tabs.
• latchkey
  i still use it as a quick and dirty text editor for things like my .bashrcmuch love for them sticking with it for so long
• throwaway613746
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  submeta
  BBEdit used to be my text-transformation tool.Happily paid for every update for years, even when I used Emacs, I kept BBedit in reach. For quick text edits/transformations (because Regex in Emacs is hard to use). But with LLMs + nvim I hardly start bbedit anymore.So now with LLMs, I tell them what I need and they write a shell/Perl/Python script to make the craziest transformations.
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  ndegruchy
  > Support for vi keyboard emulation, for basic navigation and editing;I'm sure some people will like this update, but it's a big meh for me. I'll wait for some further updates to upgrade.