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Press release edited by Applelinks senior editor Kirk Hiner

Bare Bones Software, Inc., developer of leading-edge power tools for Mac OS X, today announced the immediate availability of TextWrangler 2.1, their award-winning text editor. The updated version of this popular coder's and administrator's text processing tool includes fixes for reported issues and various refinements and interface enhancements.

"TextWrangler's powerful engine, approachable interface, and strong feature set represent, in our view, the standard for freely available Mac software," explained Rich Siegel, founder and CEO of Bare Bones Software. "TextWrangler 2.1 includes a number of enhancements and refinements, particularly to the Documents Drawer, which were inspired by customer feedback. We are grateful to those customers who have taken the time to write in and share their thoughts."

TextWrangler 2.1 is available free of charge. An update package is available to all TextWrangler 2.0 users for download from the Bare Bones Software website.

Crafted in Bare Bones Software's best traditions as a leading Mac software developer, TextWrangler 2 is a powerful general purpose text editor. It features a clean and easy to use interface and a rich set of features for composing and manipulating text.

TextWrangler's feature set includes such diverse elements as multi-file search and replace with optional regular expression ("Grep") pattern matching, function navigation and code coloring for numerous code languages, the ability to easily work with files on remote FTP and SFTP servers, and comprehensive support for AppleScript and Unix scripting. This makes it an ideal tool for composition, clerical tasks, system administration or software development. TextWrangler 2 requires Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later, and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger."

TextWrangler 2.1 is available immediately, free of charge for all Mac users.

Registered TextWrangler users may upgrade to BBEdit at a significant discount. BBEdit offers professionals even more power, from advanced HTML and CSS tools to seamless integration with version control systems, Text Factory, Glossaries and much more.

TextWrangler 2.1 may be obtained from Bare Bones Software at the Bare Bones website. Commercial licensing terms are available for companies who wish to add value to their products by including TextWrangler 2 in the product distribution. For additional details on TextWrangler 2 and other Bare Bones Software products, visit the company's website.