I've been using Bare Bones Software's BBedit as my main text editor for many years, I simply cannot live without 'grep' style pattern-based search and replace and can perfectly live without an application trying to format text for me (I use Pages for fancy documents).

I just dowloaded the brand new version 8.5 and I was curious about the new "Code Folding" feature. It allows you to collapse pieces of code. In other words: it's an outliner. Well, kinda, it only works with programming languages. Anyway, I have always found outliners the best code editing tool, this new version of BBEdit looks very promising.

PS: after the first few minutes of use I notice I cannot select a line clicking on "fold point" nor move it. And so far I haven't found a way to collapse all items. The good news is that folding status is somehow saved with the document.

Tags: BBedit