A while ago I wrote about TextMate and how it compared to BBEdit. I need to update that comparison now, because BareBones has just released a better BBEdit: version 8.5. Okay, it's still BBEdit, they haven't gone and done anything radical. What have done however is yet another incremental improvement, further proof that BareBones is listening to their users.
Among the least sucking new features is code-folding (at last!), a code clippings menu, better svn support and yes -- finally -- an application icon that doesn't look like it came from 1999. I'd like to see a much cleaner interface overall, and maybe version 9.0 will include such a makeover, but for the time being a rock solid application just got a little bit more solid.