[MlMt] External Editor To Compose Messages?

[Jason Davies]

BBEdit is the most powerful text editor I know. Multimarkdown composer is good but nothing like BBEDit. Its unique virtue seems to be a markdown-opml import export. 

There's a 'BBEdit lite' called Textwrangler which is free but doesn't  have all the power. 

BBEdit 'clippings' let you decide how to do just about anything (eg enclosing selected text with *, or pasting the clipboard enclosed with *, in fact just about anything you can imagine). 

Not sure of BBEdit's price but it's worth its weight in gold.  It's iffered through their site as well as the App Store www.barebones.com

Ps Gruber worked for them, that's where I electronically met him. Daringfireball was - I think - what he did next. And HE uses BBEdit;)



Thanks,
    
    -Jason
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On 22 Mar 2014 at 19:38:02 GMT, Harvey Leff <hsleff at csupomona.edu> wrote:
    
> I found an app, _MultiMarkdown Composer_, which though **not** as 
> powerful as a full-blown text editor, does do the markdown easily. It 
> costs $11.99 at the AppStore. Using Command-b and Command-i surrounds 
> the selection with double asterisks or underscores. If there is no 
> selection, it simply prints the asterisks or underscores and places the 
> cursor in the middle. It also puts quotation marks around selected text 
> with a single keystroke. I think it does much more but I haven't 
> explored that.
> 
> Does anyone have an experience with this app? Unfortunately, the demo 
> disallows copying text, so I cannot "Select All" and copy into MailMate 
> unless I purchase it. That is poor marketing and gives me a negative 
> feeling but I still might purchase it if I do not find another choice. 
> TextMate, which is very powerful and diverse, **will** do the job for 
> $49. Any other suggestions?
> 
> Harvey
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> Harvey S. Leff
> Portland, OR  USA
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