Bare Bones Software today announced the release of BBEdit 7.0, the latest version of the company’s professional construction tool for text editing and Web development. Version 7.0 introduces a number of new features, including integrated support for CVS, the ability to easily configure multiple Web sites, powerful new Sort Lines and Process Duplicate plug-ins, rectangular selection support, ASP/VBScript syntax coloring support, and more. This release also adds a “Paste Previous Clipboard” command, “Quartz” text smoothing support in editing views, improved support for Mac OS X Services (on Mac OS X 10.2), plus palette-savvy window resizing and a new “atop” window stacking option. BBEdit 7.0 carries a suggested retail price of US$179, with a discounted cross-upgrade of $119 for owners of BBEdit Lite, Adobe GoLive, or Macromedia Dreamweaver. Registered owners of BBEdit version 2.5 and later are eligible to upgrade to BBEdit 7.0 for $49 plus shipping and handling (S&H not applicable for download orders) until December 31, 2002. Starting January 1, 2003, the upgrade price will be $49 for registered users of BBEdit 6.5 and US$59 for registered users of 6.1 and older.
