Seems like the biggest advantage of Macs is not the OS, or the hardware but the unique and powerful software provided by 3rd parties (heavy Linux and Win7 user)
You get a unixy environment, with pretty nice UI defaults, and applications that are generally also very consistent in terms of usability.
That said, I do use it a lot, but almost all the applications I use daily are cross platform (MS Teams, VS Code, Node, Chrome, etc). 8 years ago, I never thought two of my favorite apps to work with would be MS written apps using Electron (Chrome) that actually are nice to use.
BBEdit’s multi file regex search and diff tools are great and so is the file browser, which is why I keep it around even though I do nearly all my actual editing in MacVim
1. A third pane which shows a summary of all the diffs between the two compared files. It's point-and-clickable, and has a point-and-click bi-directional Apply button to apply changes in either direction. Easy to arrow-key through the changes and apply the changes from the keyboard, too.
2. Character level diff -- not just different lines but will also show you characters which have changed.
3. Directory level diff shows files which have changed on a per-directory basis
BBedit integrates very easily with command line tools with the 'bbedit' and 'bbdiff' commands, so you can use it with difftool-type commands.
Hmm, ok. Check out vim's `diffthis` and https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive if you haven't. It sounds like it does the same thing. I'm suggesting this because you already use MacVim, so you'd get your familiar buffers and keystrokes, among other things.
I still use it daily on my mac. I use vi in the terminal and vscode more and more, but I find myself with bbedit open too. I wish it had md and rst renderers built in, but i still love it.
