Like others here my vote goes to … Scrivener.
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What font are you using in Ulysses?
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The OP said this many posts ago!
I missed it, thanks!
New York with the D22 Theme.
That’s a nice idea, thanks!
I’ve just given it a go and it’s better than the default behaviour because it deals with the space issue. Unfortunately it still fails on punctuation marks in general – BBEdit’s syntax table sees them as separate items for deletion, not part of the preceding word, even for alt-shift-left navigation.
You can see this by putting the text one! Two: three, four; five@ into both BBEdit and TextEdit. In TextEdit, tapping alt-shift-left five times selects the entire sequence. In BBEdit you need ten goes…
The reason (I imagine) is that code and prose have different word boundaries, and BBEdit is, perfectly naturally, optimised for code. Emacs allows you to change these, but I’ve searched several times and the consensus seems to be that there’s no way of doing it in BBEdit (whose text engine predates Cocoa, I think).
As I said, it’s only a niggle, and I continue to use BBEdit for code and general text manipulation, but I find it not as comfortable as other editors for prose of any length.