BBEdit is turning 25
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That said, I do use it a lot, but almost all the applications I use daily are cross platform (MS Teams, VS Code, Node, Chrome, etc). 8 years ago, I never thought two of my favorite apps to work with would be MS written apps using Electron (Chrome) that actually are nice to use.
1. A third pane which shows a summary of all the diffs between the two compared files. It's point-and-clickable, and has a point-and-click bi-directional Apply button to apply changes in either direction. Easy to arrow-key through the changes and apply the changes from the keyboard, too.
2. Character level diff -- not just different lines but will also show you characters which have changed.
3. Directory level diff shows files which have changed on a per-directory basis
BBedit integrates very easily with command line tools with the 'bbedit' and 'bbdiff' commands, so you can use it with difftool-type commands.
I loved that ad tag line they used back in the 90's.
Shame it's only on MacOS. Notepad++ manages to handle a lot of my text editing needs pretty well lately.
I was a BBEdit user in the late 90s / early 00s. Interesting to see they are still around. I thought it was a magnificent editor at the time.