Bare Bones Software Announces TextWrangler Academic Pricing; Students Save More than Time with Powerful Text Editing and Data Wrangling Tool, Now Priced 20% Off

Business Wire, August 23, 2004

BEDFORD, Mass. -- Bare Bones Software, Inc. today announced new academic pricing for TextWrangler(tm), the powerful, richly-featured text editor for writing and coding. Now for the first time, students and academic professionals can purchase TextWrangler for US$39 (regularly US$49).

"TextWrangler is ideally suited for academic use due to its clean interface, impressive text-editing capabilities, and scalable power," said Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software. "Although TextWrangler is already budget-priced, our relationship with students, faculty, and staff is a time-honored tradition and so we are happy to extend this discount."

TextWrangler offers robust editing capabilities for writing, programming, and system administration tasks in a low-overhead package that's easy to use.

TextWrangler serves as an editor for composing and modifying plain text and text-oriented data, including Unicode (UTF-8 and UTF-16) files and most non-Roman single-byte files. TextWrangler includes an integrated spell checker, numerous character formatting commands, very fast multi-file search and replace, 'grep' style pattern matching based on PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expression), a rich plug-in architecture and an array of built-in text transformation functions.

To enhance productivity for software development, its Find Differences command allows programmers to quickly determine differences between similar files, while extensive AppleScript support enables automation of TextWrangler's functions or workflow solutions between applications. TextWrangler provides syntax coloring and source-code navigation for files in ANSI C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Java, Object Pascal, Perl, Python, Rez, Tcl, TeX, and Unix shell script.

TextWrangler transparently reads and writes text files originating on a variety of platforms, and can work with text files stored on remote FTP servers as readily as though they were on a local hard disk. TextWrangler's "authenticated save" makes it a powerful tool for server administration, by allowing any user with an administrative account and password to edit and save any local file. Finally, the "edit" tool makes it possible to invoke TextWrangler from the command line, and thus integrate it into Unix scripts and workflows.

System Requirements, Pricing and Availability

TextWrangler requires Mac OS X v10.2 or later (Mac OS X v10.2.6 strongly recommended). Regularly budget priced at US$49, TextWrangler is available today to students and academic professionals for US$39 via electronic download directly from Bare Bones Software. The new TextWrangler academic pricing compliments the academic pricing for BBEdit at US$119 and Mailsmith at US$79.

Multi-packs and site licenses of TextWrangler are also available by contacting sales@barebones.com. TextWrangler is not available through resellers. For details please visit the company's web site at: http://www.barebones.com/store/index.shtml

About Bare Bones Software, Inc.

Bare Bones Software, Inc., incorporated in 1994, is a privately-held corporation based in Bedford, MA. BBEdit, the company's flagship product, has received numerous accolades from press and users, including a 2001 Macworld Editor's Choice Award, a "Great" rating from MacAddict Magazine, and a rating of 4-and-a-half mice from Macworld Magazine. The company's expanding product family also includes TextWrangler, a high-performance plain text editor, Mailsmith, and Super Get Info. For more information, visit http://www.barebones.com/ or send email to sales@barebones.com.

TextWrangler, Super Get Info and the Bare Bones Software logo are trademarks of, and BBEdit, Mailsmith and "It doesn't suck" are registered trademarks of Bare Bones Software, Inc. Copyright (c) 2004, All rights reserved. AppleScript is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.