BBEdit is the most popular professionally-designed HTML or text editor on macOS. It provides numerous tools for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose source code, as well as textual data. The award-winning software was designed to meet the needs of authors, Web authors, and software developers.
BBEdit is a text editor created by Bare Bones Software, originally designed specifically for MacintoshSystem Software 6, and currently supports macOS.
The BBEdit software is intended for use by web developers and software designers, and developers of software. It is natively compatible with several programming languages. Users can develop custom modules to support any language. BBEdit is not a word processor, so it can't format text or have page layout capabilities.
The program has multi-file text search features, which include support for regular expressions compatible with Perl. It allows previewing and integrated verification of HTML markup. It also contains models for most HTML elements that can be input into an interactive dialog box. It also has FTP as well as SFTP tools that integrate into code management software. BBEdit highlights differences between different versions of files and permits the merging of modifications. Support for controlling versions, such as Git, Perforce, and Subversion, is included.
Several applications and developer tools provide direct support for using BBEdit as a third-party source-code editor.
BBEdit is compatible with the Open Scripting Architecture and can be scripted or recorded using AppleScript and other languages and can run AppleScript by itself.
