Using BBEdit and (your language)

First, make sure to use the search functionality of this wiki: there could be other tips for your language in other places.

Secondly, take a look at the Clippings page, or the Codeless_Language_Modules page - there could be more support for your language than you realize!

General Problems

Does BBEdit guess the wrong language for your file? Fix it with a modeline setting

Does BBEdit strip whitespace and your language/markup syntax not like that? Use a custom language setting

Javascript/JSON

• JSON validation in BBEdit
• JS Lint Script

LaTeX

• Tips on using LaTeX with BBEdit, and LaTeX with the Unix Worksheet
• More on LaTeX, BBEdit and the Unix Worksheet

Lisps

newLISP

newLISP is a language targeted at using a Lisp, with some modifications that make it better suited for scripting level tasks.

• newLISP language module. How this is constructed: Building a codeless language module with BBEdit 8.5

• Creating a Text Filter in newLISP

Nu

Nu is a Lisp built on top of Objective-C, and thus has access to the entire Cocoa API

Nu language model

Scheme

BBEdit Codeless language module for Scheme

Markdown

• Screencast: A little bit of Markdown
• Screencast: BBEdit Markdown Screencast: Headers, Lists and Tables

Objective-C

• Ctags, Cocoa and BBEdit: A blog entry describing how to get code completion for Cocoa APIs in BBEdit

PHP

• PHP Validation Applescript
• PHP Lint
• PHP Unit

Python

• PyFlakes results in the BBEdit search window!
• Use BBEdit to display the curent line, when stepping through code with pdb
• Using Emacs Local Variables (aka modeline) to force Consistant Whitespace
• Python syntax checking using Flake8 (PEP8 + PyFlake)

Ruby

• RVM and the BBEdit Unix Worksheet
• RVM and BBEdit's #! menu

Textile

• Text Filter: Textile -> HTML
• BBEdit's Preview window renders Textile too!