The fast access to it, and the fast manipulation of text and functionality. The way it handles files is just pefect for the way I use it.

BBEdit provides the tools necessary to process text for a myriad of purposes. BBEdit is a web site creation tool, integrates with the shell, is scriptable, programmable and extendable. The GREP capabilities are top shelf. When someone is moving text of one type (copied from web page, poorly constructed data set, different encoding, stripped or scraped text, BBEdit can open the file or accept the text and allows removing text gremlins, blank lines, sort lines, remove line endings and more. Using AppleScript, it is possible to create automated processes to tackle huge text manipulation tasks. Also AppleScript can make BBEdit into a power prompt engineering tool for AI Chat.

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