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BBEdit

BBEdit is a proprietary text editor made by Bare Bones Software, originally developed for Macintosh System Software 6, and currently supporting macOS.

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Developer
Bare Bones Software
License
Freemium
Operating system
macOS
Release
April 12, 1992; 34 years ago (1992-04-12)
Stable release
16.0 / 21 May 2026
Type
Text editor

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History

Features

Language support

Freeware versions

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Map overview Semantic statistics

BBEdit

Nodes86
Edges85
Triples105
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.023256
Components1

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BBEdit

Top relations

related to Language support · 30
BBEdit → ANSI, As, BBEdit's SDK, CSS, Fortran, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Language Server Protocol, Lasso, MySQL, Object Pascal, Objective-C, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL, Python, Rez
related to history · 17
BBEdit → At, Bare Bones Software, BBEdit Lite, In, KB, Mac OS, Macintosh, May, Pascal, PE, TextEdit, TextWrangler, The, The Macintosh Pascal, The TextEdit, THINK, THINK Technologies
related to TextWrangler · 16
BBEdit → AppleScript, ASCII, Bare Bones, BBEdit Lite, BBEdit's, In, It, Later TextWrangler, Latin-1, Latin-9, Perl, Python, Text Factories, TextWrangler, TextWrangler's, Unicode
related to Features · 10
BBEdit → FTP, Git, HTML, It, Perforce, Perl-compatible, SFTP, Subversion, Support, The
related to BBEdit 11.6 and up · 7
BBEdit → Bare Bones Software, BBEdit's, In, Rich Siegel, Summer, TextWrangler, TextWrangler's
related to BBEdit Lite · 7
BBEdit → BBEdit Lite, Carbon, Classic, FTP, HTML, Mac OS, Note
Developer · 1
BBEdit → Bare Bones Software
License · 1
BBEdit → Freemium
Operating system · 1
BBEdit → macOS
Release · 1
BBEdit → April 12, 1992; 34 years ago (1992-04-12)

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Important terminology

text version support bare bones editor textwrangler software html features lite available bbedit's languages freeware plugin shell macos programming users

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
BBEditDeveloperBare Bones Software1.00infobox
BBEditLicenseFreemium1.00infobox
BBEditOperating systemmacOS1.00infobox
BBEditReleaseApril 12, 1992; 34 years ago (1992-04-12)1.00infobox
BBEditStable release16.0 / 21 May 20261.00infobox
BBEditTypeText editor1.00infobox
BBEditWebsitewww.barebones.com/products/bbedit/1.00infobox
BBEditWritten inC1.00infobox
BBEditis aproprietary text editor made by Bare Bones Software0.90text
shell worksheets that provide a screen editor interface to command line functionality similar to MPW Worksheetsinstance ofas well as adding features0.80text
Emacs shell buffers.BBEdit's creator codeRinstance ofas well as adding features0.80text
regular expressionsinstance ofBBEdit Lite had many of the same features as BBEdit0.80text

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