Bare Bones Software, Inc., developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today announced the release and immediate availability of TextWrangler™ 2.2, a significant upgrade to the award-winning text editor.
With more than a hundred new features and improvements, TextWrangler 2.2 represents a major interface overhaul for this popular, general-purpose text processing tool. The changes are designed to streamline navigation and ease discovery of TextWrangler’s powerful feature set.
“TextWrangler gives the Mac community a strong, capable text editor,” explained Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software, Inc. “As the little brother to BBEdit, this update brings to TextWrangler the well-conceived, attractively presented enhancements and features which help increase our customers’ productivity. For TextWrangler 2.2, we’ve taken a huge leap forward in interface polish and usability, increasing the potential for the Mac community to be more productive than ever.”
TextWrangler 2.2 provides extensive improvements to the layout and usability of text-editing views including a revised and simplified tool bar, and enhancements to the navigation bar to speed navigation within the current document. An expanded status bar displays document properties at a glance, and allows quick access for adjustments.
TextWrangler 2.2 can now read and write the “binary property list” format used in Mac OS X 10.4. The ability to seamlessly open and save of gzip-compressed (.gz) text files, extends to binary property lists that are themselves gzip-compressed.
Version 2.2 also provides significant improvements to the built-in Java, TeX, and JavaScript language support. Plus, customers can now adjust display and editing options on a per-language basis, providing maximum control in the pursuit of improved productivity.
TextWrangler’s Preferences window, the nerve center for controlling and customizing TextWrangler’s behaviors, has been extensively revised and simplified. A new Menus preference panel provides unified control over TextWrangler’s menu structure, including adjustment of keyboard equivalents and the ability to show and hide individual menu commands and even entire menus.
The powerful Find Differences feature highlights specific character differences within a changed line. An improved FTP/SFTP browser is now more discoverable, and in TextWrangler 2.2 immediately becomes available when choosing “Open from FTP/SFTP Server.” The revised Disk Browser window now presents a hierarchical file listing, and provides the ability to apply TextWrangler’s powerful file filters to reduce the size of the list, if desired.
TextWrangler 2.2 incorporates version 5.0 of the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library (PCRE). TextWrangler 2.2 also now supports “check spelling as you type.”
Detailed information on all of the changes and improvements implemented in TextWrangler 2.2 can be found at: https://www.barebones.com/support/textwrangler/current_notes.shtml
For more information on TextWrangler, or to download the software, visit the company’s web site: https://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
Pricing and Availability
TextWrangler 2.2 is available immediately, free of charge for all Mac users and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
TextWrangler 2.2 may be obtained from Bare Bones Software at: https://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/
This article was last modified on January 18, 2023
This article was first published on January 15, 2007
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