With BBEdit version 5.0, in a move sure to win applause from many long-time users, the HTML tools have been moved into their own Markup menu (the palette is still available as well). ^ 'Free Mailsmith Is the BBEdit of Email Clients'.^ 'We've officially sunsetted TextWrangler and it's not compatible with High Sierra.
In the Summer of 2016, with the release of BBEdit 11.6, Bare Bones Software introduced a free mode of BBEdit that even after the expiration of the 30-day evaluation period of BBEdit's full features, would continue to offer both TextWrangler's features and some additional features beyond TextWrangler's.
BBEdit's plugin support was removed in version 9.6, in favor of the expanded selection of scripting languages available on Mac OS X. Table Builder was removed in version 6.0, since enhancing it would involve replicating the features of existing visual HTML editors, and BBEdit was at this time bundled with Dreamweaver. In version 4.5, Bare Bones introduced BBEdit Table Builder as an additional tool for web designers and developers to visually design HTML tables, then the main technique for layout control on web pages. The tools were included as an optional palette in version 4, and were progressively more integrated, gaining their own menu in version 5.0. Barebones later bought the rights to the plugin code from their author and included them as part of the standard BBEdit package. In fact, the developers at Bare Bones Software first learned of the existence of HTML through users inquiring about these plug-ins. In 1994, taking advantage of BBEdit's then-novel plugin support, third party developers started writing plug-ins to easily create and format HTML code.