Well, I came here to panic ("what am I to do without my beloved TextWrangler?!?"), but am relieved to read that they are more-or-less just merging the two. Unfortunately for me, this means I'll have to go through the dozens and dozens of tabs of text that I've have in TextWrangler for year and years and decide what to do with them. It's no different than if they added some premium features to TextWrangler and turned them on for 30 days for free.
#BAREBONES BBEDIT UPGRADE#
In the best tradition of TextWrangler, using BBEdit in this fashion costs you nothing, while providing an upgrade path to advanced features and capabilities.Īll told, that's about as good as free gets. At the end of the evaluation period, you can continue to use BBEdit for free, forever, with no nag screens or unsolicited interruptions.Īfter the evaluation period, BBEdit provides a modified set of features, which incorporates all of TextWrangler's features, and offers unique features of its own. Here's how it's described on the website (emphasis mine): A better free alternativeīBEdit offers a 30-day evaluation period, during which its full feature set is available. If you need the full power of BBEdit then you pay exactly how you did before. You get all the functionality for 30 days and then it's restricted pretty much making it Textwrangler plus a few extra things. If you have to pay for then it's not free! That is a bit misleading! It's a one month trial that I see.