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Major feature upgrade is not just to add to BBEditвЂ™s capabilities, but The challenge Bare Bones faces when releasing a In short, the point of BBEdit is not just what it looks like or what itДoes, but how it feels. The difference is significant, but often overlooked. Main appeal is not that it is easy-to-use, but rather that it isД®asy-to-learn. Use if one takes the time to learn it and grow acclimated to its Hence itвЂ™s true that one might find Vim easy to Package, no matter how cryptic its user interface may be, it can be

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Once you have learned to use any software ItвЂ™s also worth pointing out here that вЂњeasy-to-useвЂќ is probably not In the sense of superficial cosmetic appeal, but in the deeper, Macintosh-style interface - and where by вЂњinterfaceвЂќ I donвЂ™t mean The appeal of BBEdit is in its balance of powerful text-editingДЇeatures and an elegant, intuitive, and unabashedly Would have you believe that such is the price of power - thatД®asy-to-use and powerful are mutually exclusive.

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They are also difficult to learn,Д¬ryptic to the uninitiated, and their human interfaces (such as theyДЄre) are unlike anything a Mac user would consider normal. Their various derivatives are very fine editors, and inarguably The problem is that this is not the right question. Is usually Emacs or vi/vim - or occasionally jEdit. Their question to BBEditДЄdvocates, invariably, goes something like: вЂњWhat does BBEdit do that

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the sort of guys who honestly see Mac OS XДЄs Unix with a Mac GUI, rather than as an updated version of the This view is generally expressed only by those who are extremely Implementation, and that the user interface is but a wrapper. The second is the belief that the user interface is worthy only ofДЄfterthought that the real software is the underlying The layout of windows, dialogs, and menus is So while itвЂ™s not pretty, it isnвЂ™t trying to be. I wonвЂ™t dispute that BBEditвЂ™s interface is relatively unadorned but ItвЂ™s certainly nice to have a chair that looks good Д«ut if youвЂ™re going to be sitting in it 8 or more hours every day,Д®rgonomics are much more important than aesthetics. Compare and contrast to, say, choosing an Interface design, not the whole of it - and for a serious tool, not

But aesthetic appeal is but one aspect of user Something aesthetically pleasing is deeply satisfying in a This is not to say that aesthetics are unimportant. Vibrant primary colors, and visual effects such as transparency,Дrop shadows, bezel edges, and smooth-gliding animated widgets. Visual whiz-bangery: gorgeous iconography, anti-aliased type, Good it looks i.e., that the state of being вЂњMac-likeвЂќ implies onlyДЄdherence to the gestalt of AppleвЂ™s recent-vintage Aqua-flavored The quality of an appвЂ™s user interface is simply a measure of how One is the conflation of aesthetics with usability. Genuine understanding of what it is about BBEditвЂ™s вЂњinterfaceвЂќ that There are two vectors for such bewilderment, both of which belie a Non-believers who profess outright bewilderment at BBEditвЂ™s decade-long Prefer other editors, there are vocal contingents of BBEdit Those who simply have no need for a serious text editor, or who simply But its appeal is not universal: in addition to Presented via an intuitive, discoverable, usable interface might as wellДЇor something as inherently nerdy as a text editor, BBEdit is Irrelevant itвЂ™s the usability that matters. The raw capabilities of a particular application are, for most users, A userвЂ™s relationship with an application is For users, the application is what they can see,Д¬lick, and interact with. That separates programmers from non-programmers.ДЇrom the perspective of users, however, the importance of the user It is the ability to grasp these abstractions When a programmer wants to produce a circle, he writes aДЇew lines of source code. When an artist wants to produce a circle, heДraws a circle. DevelopersвЂ™ relationship with the software they produce

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In a broad sense, the source code for a UI-less background process suchДЄs the Apache web server very much resembles the source code for a The application - whereas most non-application software doesnвЂ™t evenДЇrom the perspective of a programmer, all software is just source code. To paraphrase Edward Tufte, the user interface is The key difference is the primacy of the user interface in applicationДevelopment. All applications are software but not all software is an application.

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