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I just grabbed the script and saved it to ~/Dropbox/Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/Normalize Table.py Was, fortunately, written entirely in Python and had no TextMate-specific features. The more complicated of these, the one that reformats a MultiMarkdown-style table that looks like this |Left align|Right align|Center align|Īnd turns it into this | Left align | Right align | Center align | It wasn’t until this past week that I found myself wishing I had a couple of scripts from my old Text Tables bundle. This turned out to be good motivation there’s nothing like having to do a repetitive task by hand to inspire you to automate it the first chance you get. Unsurprisingly, these situations often arose when I was on a deadline and didn’t have time to stop and rewrite an old script. Instead, I’d rewrite them as needed, waiting until I ran into a situation that really called out for one of my old scripts. Not by continuing to use TextMate for some tasks-that’s a recipe for never switching at all-but by refusing to rewrite all my customizations right away. So when I switched to BBEdit a few months ago, I decided to make the transition slowly. The only thing more daunting than the thought of giving them up was the thought of rewriting them for another editor. This is one of the reasons it took me so long to make the move away from TextMate in six years of use, I’d accumulated a passel of commands, snippets, and specialty language definitions. The more you customize your editor, the harder it is to switch to another one.
#BBEDIT MAC#
It is disappointing to conclude that the Mac App Store can’t be the unified marketplace for everyone, but at least web browsers can still be used to buy software.Next post Previous post Markdown table scripts for BBEdit The Mac App Store isn’t meant for apps like TextExpander or BBEdit, and Apple doesn’t seem to be willing to change its underlying nature. The departure of BBEdit from the Mac App Store is yet another example of the platform’s limitations and it’s sad, but it’s probably for the best and everything will be okay.
#BBEDIT SOFTWARE#
And when the download numbers of the Mac App Store aren’t so great, who can blame them? And when you start adding Sandboxing, iCloud, and Top Charts dominated by Apple apps (and the operating system itself, listed under “Productivity”) to the list of complaints, who can blame an indie development company for their decision to sell software through the good ol’ Internet? The numbers and facts speak for themselves: developers are still using the Buying Direct option. I am thus going back to my initial point: developers seem cautious about the future of the Mac App Store and the restrictions that Apple could, in theory, bring up again. I noted this in 2012 after popular indie developers had already exited the Mac App Store. But, at this point, it’s clear that all the problems of Apple’s infrastructure couldn’t be sustainable for developers of apps that weren’t simple utilities or games. When the Mac App Store launched over three years ago, many of us thought that it would be a panacea for independent Mac software – designed after the success of the iOS App Store, it would provide a unified marketplace with all the benefits of Apple’s infrastructure.įor thousands of developers, that was absolutely the case.
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In fact, at the end, he admitted that it’s not impossible that BBEdit might return to the store someday, if conditions change. This was not a scorched-earth denouncement of the Mac App Store. Siegel’s talk was notable for its restraint and care.
#BBEDIT UPGRADE#
(The existing version will remain, and existing Mac App Store customers can upgrade to the next version directly with Bare Bones.) On Saturday Rich Siegel of Bare Bones Software gave a presentation in which he announced that the next version of BBEdit would not be sold in the Mac App Store. I’m in Montreal for the Cingleton conference.