What's New in TextWrangler

System Requirements

TextWrangler 2.1.1 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later, and Mac OS X 10.4 or later is required for Automator support. The software will not run on Mac OS 9, or any earlier versions of Mac OS X.

This version of TextWrangler also runs natively on Apple-branded hardware powered by Intel processors. (As of this writing, only the systems provided as part of Apple's Developer Transition Kit employ such hardware.)

IMPORTANT: Since Intel Macs are by definition using pre-release versions of Mac OS X on prototype hardware, please verify that any problems you experience when using TextWrangler on Intel are also problems using TextWrangler on PowerPC. If so, please send a report to support@barebones.com; if not, please file a bug report with Apple, and they will follow up with us as necessary.

Feature Highlights

TextWrangler 2 raises the bar for Macintosh text editors. Here are a few of the many features and enhancements offered by this version:

Support for opening and managing multiple text documents via a single window interface.
Enhanced multi-file searching, offering threaded searches and diverse search sources.
Use of ATSUI for text rendering greatly improves handling of Unicode files, particularly those containing glyphs from multiple disparate languages.
Runs Text Factories created with BBEdit, allowing you to apply multiple text processing actions to diverse source documents.
Shebang (#!) menu offers integrated access to Unix scripting environments such as Perl, Python, shell scripts, and more.
Command line tool enhancements including support in the "edit" tool for opening files from FTP/SFTP servers, and a new "twdiff" tool.
Text menu commands expanded and enhanced: imported capabilities of former plug-in tools, sheet support, improved recordability, and more.
Spell checking now uses the Mac OS X system spelling checker.
Streamlined application support folder configuration supports both global and local add-in items.
New visual Page Guide and tab stop indicators.
Current line highlighting preference.

Info on New Features

In addition to these and other major enhancements, TextWrangler 2 includes an abundance of additional features, and interface and performance enhancements, as well as bug fixes. For a detailed summary of changes and bug fixes, please refer to the current release notes on our web site.