Re: [OS X TeX] PSA: BBEdit package for writing Latex - Nathan’s Blog

[Alain Schremmer]

On Feb 3, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

>
> On Feb 2, 2012, at 8:26 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:
>
>> I haven't tried this (yet), but I thought the BBEdit aficionados  
>> might be interested in this:
>>
>> http://nb.nathanamy.org/latex-bbpackage/
>>
>
> That is indeed interesting since I am a BBEdit aficionado. I use  
> BBEdit regularly as a general text editor for tasks not suited to  
> TeXShop. Eg,
>
> (i) edit system files (requiring authentication);
>
> (ii) multi-file search;
>
> (iii) search/replace using Grep/regular expressions;
>
> (iv) html creation and editing;
>
> (v) user-defined 'text factory' manipulations of document;
>
> (vi) unparalleled scriptability;
>
> (vii) well-done file difference mode.
>
> However, I don't see that the latex-bbpackage provides anything  
> that approaches the strengths of TeXShop as a TeX editor---key  
> bindings, command completion, macros, tags, templates,  
> AppleScripting highly suited to TeX, as well as the other source  
> file operations specific to TeX.
>
> In short, though I'm a fan of BBEdit, I'll continue using TeXShop  
> as my main TeX editor, editing text fragments in BBEdit as convenient.

Now I get it.

Grateful regards
--schremmer