- BBEdit Tips and Tricks Last Modified November 28, 1999 BBEdit is an excellent text editor for the Macintosh with a large and loyal following of web designers, programmers, and others who use it for their work. This page focuses on tips and tricks for BBEdit users who use BBEdit for HTML or Perl, but also has some tips that will be useful to anyone who uses BBEdit. The advice on this page may ...anybrowser.org/bbedit