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 Packages page to see if there’s a comprehensive collection of scripts/clippings/languages modules for your language/framework. You can also check out the Clippings page, or the Codeless_Language_Modules page – there could be more support for your language than you realize!

Contents

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

Keep your function definitions up to date automatically with guard

Grep

BBEdit uses Perl Compatible Regular Expressions.

• BBEdit Grep Cheat Sheet (from BBEdit mailing list)

Inform 7

• Language module (codeful) for syntax-coloring Inform 7

Javascript/JSON

• JSON validation in BBEdit
• JS Lint Script
• JS beautifier / another JS beautifier
• HTML BBEdit Package also includes some Javascript tools
• Find and Mark All pattern for Node.js/express work

Node.js

• Using (Globally installed) Node modules in Text Filters

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

Matlab

• A language module for Matlab syntax

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)

R

• Jonathan Marc Bearak’s page on R and BBEdit
• Send selection to Stata/R scripts

Ruby

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

Textile

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