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Nobody has mentioned the manual. It is fantastic!

To this day I still open the BBEdit manual (to chapter 30, maybe?) if I want to figure out how to write some Regex.

I’ve never seen such clear and comprehensive instructions on Regex anywhere else.



Completely agree. One of the best software manuals ever written. And I too refer to the Regex chapter.

I believe John Gruber wrote a significant portion of the manual back in the late 1990s


TIL https://daringfireball.net/2002/12/bare_bones_disclaimer


I got curious and searched for the BBEdit manual. Do you mean chapter 30 (there isn't any) or chapter 8, "Searching with Grep"?


Yes, chapter 8 is what I meant.


Is this documentation on the web somewhere? Going to dig and will post if I find anything..


Think I found it: https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit_12.5.2_User_Ma...

Referenced here: https://daringfireball.net/2019/01/on_getting_started_with_r...


Is this it? https://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/BBEditGrepQuickRefe...


No. That's just a cheat sheet.

Here's one version: https://s3.amazonaws.com/BBSW-download/BBEdit_12.5.2_User_Ma...

See chapter 8, starting on page 171.


Thanks! I think I also found it right as you posted :)


when any regex interpretation doesn't work like bbedit regex, i still feel like it's broken




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