14 DAY TRIAL // Bare Bones Software is a software company located in Bedford, Massachusets that is currently developing applications for the Apple Macintosh platform only. Their most notorious product is the BBEdit text editor, marketed under the registered trademark "It doesn't suck." Founded back in 1993, Bare Bones was incorporated under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in June 1994, and also produces Mailsmith, an email client, Super Get Info, a file and folder info utility, TextWrangler, a freeware lightweight text editing tool and Yojimbo, an information organizer.
Just in time for Macworld's opening day, Bare Bones Software updated BBEdit, TextWrangler and Yojimbo, fixing several known issues and adding new features to each one of them.
BBEdit's last version, 8.6, comes with improved language support, greatly enhanced Java and TeX language support, as well as support for the "Markdown" structured text format. Two new commands are also available, "Save as Styled HTML" and "Copy as Styled HTML". With them, you can generate HTML code to duplicate the layout and text styles of syntax-colored code, and they can be used when creating Web pages that also include code examples. A free update for registered users of version 8.5, BBEdit 8.6 costs 125$ for new users.
TextWrangler 2.2 offers more than a hundred new features and improvements, according to Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones. The layout and usability of this text-editing tool have been improved, and now, you can use it to read and write the "binary property list" format used in Mac OS X 10.4, as well as seamlessly open and save gzipped text files. The support for Java, TeX, and JavaScript has been also improved, and now "check spelling as you type" is supported too.
Yojimbo 1.4 is an update that fixes reported issues and adds several refinements, but no additional features are available, from what I have been able to find out so far. The update package is available for free to all registered Yojimbo users, while the new ones have to pay 39$ to buy it.
If you want to visit Bare Bones at Macworld, then let me help you - they are located at booth N4034-01. Enjoy your visit!