Bare Bones Software Ships TextWrangler 2.0; Major Upgrade to General Purpose Text Editor Now With HTML Syntax Coloring, Documents Drawer, Shebang Menu, SFTP Support and Much More.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Bare Bones Software Bare Bones Software is a Bedford, Massachusetts, USA software company developing software tools for the Apple Macintosh platform. The company is best known for its BBEdit text editor, marketed under the registered trademark "It doesn't suck. , Inc., developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today announced the immediate availability of TextWrangler 2.0, a major upgrade to its general purpose text editor. TextWrangler 2.0 introduces syntax coloring and function navigation for eight new languages, plus a rich assortment of feature additions and improvements, including a new Documents Drawer and Navigation Bar A set of buttons or graphic images typically in a row or column used as a central point that link you to major topic sections on a Web site. If the navigation bar is a single graphic image with multiple selections, it is known as an imagemap. See imagemap. , a new Shebang menu, SFTP (1) (SSH FTP) Transferring files using the secure SSH protocol. See SSH. (2) (Simple FTP) An earlier non-secure FTP program. See FTP and SSH. sFTP - Secure File Transfer Protocol support, enhanced multi-file search and replace, the ability to apply Text Factories created with BBEdit 8, significantly enhanced text transformation tools, improved Unicode support, and much more. TextWrangler 2.0 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later. "TextWrangler affords extreme power, to which we have added significant feature depth, while maintaining a 'lean and mean' interface," explained Rich Siegel, founder and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Bare Bones Software, Inc. "The art of this upgrade involved maintaining the clean and usable interface, for which our products are widely respected, while still adding a mind-boggling quantity of additions in version 2.0. We are pleased that we have been able to accomplish so much in the course of meeting our customers' needs." New Features Focus on Enhancing Productivity TextWrangler 2.0 introduces new interface options to allow multiple documents to be opened into a single window, and to provide easy, efficient navigation between multiple open documents. The Documents Drawer presents a list of open documents in a given editing window, and switches to another document with a single keystroke key·stroke n. A stroke of a key, as on a word processor. key  stroke or mouse gesture In computing, a mouse gesture is a way of combining computer mouse movements and clicks which the software recognizes as a specific command. Mouse gestures can provide quick access to common functions of a program. . The Navigation Bar works alone, or in concert with the Documents Drawer, to provide an alternate interface for switching between documents in a window while conserving screen real estate. TextWrangler 2.0 now also offers syntax coloring and function navigation for files written in HTML/XHTML, PHP (PHP Hypertext Preprocessor) A scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. With syntax from C, Java and Perl, PHP code is embedded within HTML pages for server side execution. , XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , ActionScript, JavaScript, JSP (JavaServer Page) An extension to the Java servlet technology from Sun that allows HTML to be combined with Java on the same page. The Java provides the processing, and the HTML provides the layout on the Web page. , VectorScript, and VBScript. New Codeless Language Modules provide the mechanism for customers to self-define support of syntax coloring and function navigation capabilities for additional languages using a plain text file, rather than compiled code or plug-ins. Other visual navigation enhancements include a new adjustable Page Guide, tab stop A location on a horizontal line that marks the beginning of a column of text. With a monospaced font such as Courier, space characters can be used to line up columns of numbers and names evenly. indicators, and an option for highlighting the current line. The new Shebang (#!) menu provides an integrated compliment of Unixshell scripting features for Perl, Python or Unix scripts and filters, including syntax checking, plus execution directly in TextWrangler or the terminal window. SFTP support, added in version 2.0 to the "Open from FTP Server" and "Save to FTP Server" commands, allow TextWrangler users to easily work with files stored on remote servers, while employing a secure communications channel. TextWrangler's multi-file search and replace capabilities have been enhanced in version 2.0 to support the searching of multiple discrete files and folders as selected by the customer. Multiple multi-file search and replace operations now run concurrently as background tasks, leaving the application usable for other purposes. A new "Apply Text Factory" feature in TextWrangler 2.0 provides a mechanism by which TextWrangler customers can quickly and easily apply a BBEdit-generated Text Factory across multiple files and folders. BBEdit 8.0 or later is required to create Text Factories, which may invoke AppleScripts and Unix scripts in addition to the powerful arsenal of text transformations shared by both products. TextWrangler 2.0 now uses ATSUI ATSUI Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (Mac OS) for text rendering which enhances support for editing and processing Unicode text files, and can now work with documents written in multiple Unicode-represented languages. Additional integration with the Unix command-line environment includes enhancements to the "edit" command-line tool and a new "twdiff" tool for invoking TextWrangler's powerful "Find Differences." Finally, TextWrangler 2.0 integrates support for the Mac OS X system spelling checker. For more information on TextWrangler 2.0 visit the company's website: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml Pricing and Availability TextWrangler 2.0 is available immediately, free of charge for all Mac users. Registered owners of TextWrangler are eligible for a significantly discounted cross-upgrade price on BBEdit. BBEdit offers professionals even more power, from advanced HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and CSS (1) See Cascading Style Sheets. (2) (Content Scrambling System) The copy protection system applied to DVDs, which uses a 40-bit key to encrypt the movie. tools to seamless integration with version control systems, Text Factory, Glossaries and much more. All currently registered owners of TextWrangler version 1.0 and later are also eligible for a credit of $49 on future purchases from Bare Bones Software and will be notified automatically via email. Commercial licensing terms are available for companies who wish to add value to their products by including TextWrangler 2.0 in the product distribution. TextWrangler 2.0 may be obtained from Bare Bones Software at: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml For additional details on TextWrangler 2.0 and other Bare BonesSoftware products, please visit the company's web site at http://www.barebones.com/, send email to sales@barebones.com, or call (781) 687-0700. About Bare Bones Software, Inc. Bare Bones Software, Inc. develops leading-edge power tools for the Macintosh. The company's passion for creating deeply functional software with a clean, effective interface has earned it devotion from Mac users worldwide. The company's award-winning products include BBEdit, a professional HTML and text editor, and Mailsmith,an extra-strength email client. The company's expanding product family also includes TextWrangler, a high-performance plain text editor, and Super Get Info Super Get Info is an application by Bare Bones Software that they have billed as a replacement for the Get Info command in Mac OS X. Features
TextWrangler, Super Get Info and the Bare Bones Software logo are trademarks of, and BBEdit, Mailsmith and "It doesn't suck" are registered trademarks of Bare Bones Software, Inc. Copyright (c)2005, all rights reserved. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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