6/29/2023 0 Comments Bbedit turn off hints![]() Whether you've edited the binary or not, they'll only blame Unsanity, so whatever you do, DON'T CALL BAREBONES BECAUSE YOU BROKE SOMETHING. In case of emergency, REVERT TO THE BACKUP. Doing so violates the integrity of the program, the implicit trust of the developers, and the sanctity of the aforementioned marriage. So I don't know what this little spitting war is all about.īasically, I wanted BBEdit to shut up about defending itself, because I never blamed it for the crash.Īs for the insinuation that this little hack is a reckless endangerment of the stability of the application, your system, your marriage, and the delicate balance of time and space throughout the universe, I offer the following disclaimer as it should have been included with the original submission:Įditing the BBEdit binary is a reckless endangerment of the stability of the application, your system, your marriage, and the delicate balance of time and space throughout the universe. Meanwhile, BBEdit and APE both seem to be perfectly stable together. ![]() Powerbooks switch off in the bag, power goes out, Finder hangs, you reboot from the command line, testing your product involves simulating crashes. There are any number of reasons why the system might be taken down uncleanly, none of which mean that BBEdit or APE actually crashed. Moreover, we don't need the dialog every time the system crashes. The problem is that some of us know precisely why the system crashed, thank you very much. The dialog is meant to give users something to try before complaining to BareBones. I did chat with the BareBones crew some time ago about this matter, and they insisted that the dialog is in response to an inordinate number of support requests from users whose systems had crashed because of APE, rather than BBEdit. Window shade allows me to remap the minimize button to hide the window instead of shrinking a useless icon of it to my already cramped dock.Īll of these haxies have run on my system since Jaguar, through upgades and have never given me any system stability problems. A 3-d Chrome menu bar with a chalk-drawing Apple logo? Puke.įruitmenu lets the Apple menu become what it should have been from the beginning: a customizable global menu, and Mighty Mouse lets me flip the pointer for left-handed use, something Windows users have been able to do since Windows 3.11, but which Apple STILL doesn't allow. ![]() Especially shapeshifter it lets me erase that abomination of a menu bar that Apple decided to release with tiger. Fruitmenu, Mighty Mouse and Shapeshifter. I'm a huge fan of haxies and have registered copies of nearly all of them. The BBEdit people don't like the idea of code injection, which is what Unsanity does to make their haxies work. disabling "extensions" to cure problems and "zapping pram" doesn't really work here.Įven if a haxie brings about a crash more readily (which I doubt), it's more likely than not due to some other problem that won't go away even when the haxie is disabled. Folks should avoid equating APE to crashes and general instability when there are so many other, much more likely candidates. and some are very helpful and not just visual. nothing like old MacOS extensions at all. Unsanity's creations are surprisingly stable and smooth. it is still most likely at least partially to do with something in BBEdit that isn't quite kosher. ![]() if there is an issue with BBEdit and a haxie. Even so, thousands upon thousands of apps run fine with Unsanity haxies in place. and I too haven't had a BBEdit crash in a long while. I use BBEdit daily as well AND have APE running with a bunch of Unsanity Haxies. Though it would be nice to pin crashes on Unsanity haxies. Let's hope this sets us down the path to lasting peace! You're free to resume your work without BBEdit whining that it's not its fault, leaving you with only the aggravation of having just endured a crash. Now when BBEdit wants to tattle on you for running Application Enhancer, its search for the "" preference file will fail pitifully. Be sure to use three letters exactly so that you don't shift the offsets of the rest of the binary file: Replace ape with another three letters of your choice.$ cd /Applications/BBEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/ First, crack open the terminal and cd into the BBEdit bundle:.Unfortunately, there's no option to turn this dialog off, but you can tweak the BBEdit binary so that the APE check will always fail. Of course, the crash may or may not have had anything to do with APE or even BBEdit, and once you've seen this dialog, you certainly don't need to be reminded about it every time you recover from a crash. When BBEdit quits unexpectedly, it likes to blindly nag you about disabling Unsanity's Application Enhancer.
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