Yesterday, I updated to BBEdit 10. Outside of the different UI for open documents, I didn’t notice anything truly different until I tried to access my collection of Text Factories.
In BBEdit 10, the Text Factories still may be accessed under the Text menu, but the Text Factories have been renamed to Text Filter, and appear at the top of the Text menu instead of a third of the way down. Additionally, the hot keys for my Text Factories did not transfer over. To reset the hot keys, Window > Palettes > Text Filters brings up the menu for setting a key for the renamed Text Filters.
If you are upgrading, I would suggest renaming the previous version to BBEdit-9-6-4.app. After installing BBEdit 10, I was still able to access the older version to look up all my old hot keys. If I replaced BBEdit 9 with BBEdit 10, I would have been in big trouble.
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You will also lose any custom menu shortcuts you had set-up in BBEdit 9. The BBEdit 10 manual states that you should be able to assign a hotkey to menu items, but I couldn’t find the crucial “Set Key” under Preferences > Menus & Shortcuts.
Markup > Block Elements > Paragraph
Works a lot different in BBEdit 10. In BBEdit 9, applying that command to a body of text separated by two returns would place an open <p> and closed </p> tag around each paragraph of text. In BBEdit 10, it adds one <p> at the start and one </p> at the end. No more auto-tagging of paragraphs.
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