Reflections on a Month with BBEdit and Nova

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8 points·chriskrycho··2 comments

Thanks for writing this up so beautifully. I'm an old Mac user and user Nova daily, mostly for Playdate development. It has been very unstable/crash-prone recently, agreed. The major crasher that lost me much work was fixed in a recent update, so I no longer want to delete the app but I would still appreciate it if they could take their foot off the new features pedal and improve stability.

I also have the following installed BBEdit (for some advanced commands only it can do), Sublime Text (for quick opening and searching of directories of text).

My favourite and default text editor: CotEditor https://coteditor.com (for it's unbelievable speed of launching, solid language/character-set support in particular Japanese; let down in only one way - it won't open folders of files). Yes, it's a native Mac app. Highly recommended!

Yeah, I am quite sympathetic to why the foot has been hard down on the pedal: there was an enormous amount of catching up to do, and the biggest competitor is (a) free to use and (b) extremely well-funded by one of the largest tech companies in the world… but also, my text editor needs to be rock solid.

For other readers who happen along, I will second the recommendation for Cot. It had fallen out of my day-to-day usage for uninteresting reasons, but it is a great very lightweight and very fast little editor!

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