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Getting Function Names from Pop-Up

Mon, 12 May 2008 04:54:12 -0400

Carlton Gibson to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-05-12 04:54:12 - Hi all, Just a quickie... With AppleScript, I'd like to access the list of functions in the function pop up in the navigation bar. Is this list accessible and if so how? -- I can't track it down in the dictionary at all --- although this do...

Re: Contextual Menu 'Notes' Script

Sun, 11 May 2008 10:47:54 -0400

Patrick Woolsey to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-05-11 10:47:54 - Whups, guess I'm a bit slow off the line... :-) Thanks to Jason, Marc, and Bill for prior recommendations! Regards, Patrick Woolsey Bare Bones Software, Inc. P.O. Box 1048, Bedford, MA 0173...

Re: Contextual Menu 'Notes' Script

Sun, 11 May 2008 10:33:14 -0400

Patrick Woolsey to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-05-11 10:33:14 - Marconi sez: [...] >Aside from the fact that I cannot get my script syntax right, when >placed in the contextual menu items folder, it does not show up upon >a right click. > >Can an AppleScript be included in a .bundle to creat...

Re: Contextual Menu 'Notes' Script

Sat, 10 May 2008 14:47:20 -0400

Bee to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-05-10 14:47:20 - > From: Marconi > Date: May 9, 2008 3:59:42 PM PDT > Subject: Contextual Menu 'Notes' Script > > One thing I often do is add a file of notes to a folder's contents > with some info or explanation about the folder's contents. The ...

Re: Contextual Menu 'Notes' Script

Sat, 10 May 2008 13:00:14 -0400

Marc Liyanage to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-05-10 13:00:14 - On 10.05.2008, at 01:44, Marconi wrote: >>> Can an AppleScript be included in a .bundle to create a contextual >>> menu >>> item? Any and all help appreciated. >> >> on my Leopard instalation, right-click gives me 'more' at the >> bottom, whic...

Re: Contextual Menu 'Notes' Script

Fri, 09 May 2008 19:44:08 -0400

Marconi to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-05-09 19:44:08 - At 12:12 AM +0100 5/10/08, Jason Davies sent email regarding Re: Contextual Menu 'Notes' Script: >Marconi wrote on 9/5/08 at 23:59 > >> >>Can an AppleScript be included in a .bundle to create a contextual menu >>item? Any and all help appreciated. ...

Re: Contextual Menu 'Notes' Script

Fri, 09 May 2008 19:12:43 -0400

Jason Davies to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-05-09 19:12:43 - Marconi wrote on 9/5/08 at 23:59 > >Can an AppleScript be included in a .bundle to create a contextual menu >item? Any and all help appreciated. on my Leopard instalation, right-click gives me 'more' at the bottom, which leads to Automator, amon...

Contextual Menu 'Notes' Script

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:59:42 -0400

Marconi to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-05-09 18:59:42 - One thing I often do is add a file of notes to a folder's contents with some info or explanation about the folder's contents. The notes are always plain text done in BBEdit. So I'd like to streamline the process a bit. What I'd like to do is righ...

AppleScripts for Some Missing BBEdit Text Operations

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:54:46 -0400

Marc Liyanage to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-04-15 11:54:46 - I posted some of my AppleScripts to add missing editing operations to BBEdit: - Kill Line - Duplicate Line - Move Line Up/Down http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Developer/2008/04/13/AppleScripts-for-Some-Missing-BBEdit-Text-Operations.html I hope I...

Re: Select current line or paragraph with AppleScript?

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:45:45 -0400

Dennis Cox to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-04-04 07:45:45 - On 4/1/08 11:22 AM, "Doug McNutt" wrote: > At 07:04 -0700 4/1/08, Ian Crew wrote: >> The term you're looking for isn't "cursor" it's "insertion point," which may >> help your searches. >> >> On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:47 AM, ...

Re: Select current line or paragraph with AppleScript?

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:45:38 -0400

Christian Vogt to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-04-04 07:45:38 - > From a very quick search (I've gotta get to work!), it looks like > the script at: > http://applescript.extracts.de/scripts/bbedit/Select Paragraph.html > > Might give you some guidance/a place to start. > > The term you're looking for isn't "c...

Re: Select current line or paragraph with AppleScript?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:19:13 -0400

Shane Stanley to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-04-01 18:19:13 - On 2/4/08 12:47 AM, "Christian Vogt" wrote: > how can I select the current line or paragraph select line (get startLine of selection) of document 1 -- Shane Stanley -- ...

Re: Select current line or paragraph with AppleScript?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:22:37 -0400

Doug McNutt to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-04-01 12:22:37 - At 07:04 -0700 4/1/08, Ian Crew wrote: >The term you're looking for isn't "cursor" it's "insertion point," which may help your searches. > >On Apr 1, 2008, at 6:47 AM, Christian Vogt wrote: >>But I would like to dynamically select the line in which t...

Re: Select current line or paragraph with AppleScript?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:04:12 -0400

Ian Crew to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-04-01 10:04:12 - From a very quick search (I've gotta get to work!), it looks like the script at: http://applescript.extracts.de/scripts/bbedit/Select Paragraph.html Might give you some guidance/a place to start. The term you're looking for isn't "cursor" it's ...

Select current line or paragraph with AppleScript?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:47:38 -0400

Christian Vogt to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-04-01 09:47:38 - Hi there, in TextWrangler or BBEdit, how can I select the current line or paragraph in AppleScript? So far, I was only able to select a line by giving the absolute line number. But I would like to dynamically select the line in which the curs...

Re: regex for converting decimal to ascii?

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:54:33 -0400

Ken G. Brown to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-03-18 13:54:33 - At 12:30 PM -0400 3/18/08, BBEdit-Scripting List apparently wrote: >Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:24:22 -0400 >From: Ronald J Kimball >Subject: Re: regex for converting decimal to ascii? >Message-ID: <20080317182422.GB60332@penk...

Re: regex for converting decimal to ascii?

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:41:20 -0400

Doug McNutt to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-03-17 15:41:20 - At 14:24 -0400 3/17/08, Ronald J Kimball wrote: >On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:17:45PM -0600, Ken G. Brown wrote: >> Tried it and it seemed to work. Even left existing ascii comments i had >> added alone, letting them come through unchanged. >> Took me a...

Re: regex for converting decimal to ascii?

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:24:22 -0400

Ronald J Kimball to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-03-17 14:24:22 - On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:17:45PM -0600, Ken G. Brown wrote: > Thx! > Tried it and it seemed to work. Even left existing ascii comments i had > added alone, letting them come through unchanged. > Took me a minute to figure out that all the changes we...

Re: regex for converting decimal to ascii?

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:17:45 -0400

Ken G. Brown to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-03-17 14:17:45 - Thx! Tried it and it seemed to work. Even left existing ascii comments i had added alone, letting them come through unchanged. Took me a minute to figure out that all the changes were at the end of the file. Wonder what the equivalent of Perl chr($1)...

Re: regex for converting decimal to ascii?

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:48:26 -0400

Ronald J Kimball to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-03-17 10:48:26 - On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:36:24AM -0400, Ken G. Brown wrote: > I'm trying to figure out a way of converting a list of decimal representations of ascii characters, to their ascii character so I do not need to do it manually. > > (\d+) finds the decima...

regex for converting decimal to ascii?

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:36:24 -0400

Ken G. Brown to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-03-17 07:36:24 - I'm trying to figure out a way of converting a list of decimal representations of ascii characters, to their ascii character so I do not need to do it manually. (\d+) finds the decimal numbers and \1 in the replace field will put them back in, but how ...

Re: Scripting BBEdit Doesn?t Work If Find DBox is Open

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:04:17 -0500

Richard Fairbanks to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-21 15:04:17 - >WAYRTTD? Interaction through dialog boxes, modal or otherwise, is >typically counter to most of the goals that automation is typically >trying to achieve. But if you can describe what you're really trying >to do, perhaps an appropriate solution will b...

Re: Inserting a line return

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:55:00 -0500

Morley Chalmers to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-21 09:55:00 - I've solved the problem but realize now my description of my objective wasn't sufficiently clear. Here's the problem and how it was solved. I'm using an AppleScript to search and replace elements of an HTML file in BBEdit, effectively to standardize ...

Re: Scripting BBEdit Doesn't Work If Find DBox is Open

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:58:13 -0500

Charlie Garrison to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-21 00:58:13 - Good afternoon, On 20/2/08 at 2:23 PM -0700, Doug McNutt wrote: >Bare Bones' says you have menu items for setting the fields before you open the dialog. Use them. > >That doesn't work for me because the source items ar...

Re: Scripting BBEdit Doesn?t Work If Find DBox is Open

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:49:43 -0500

Rich Siegel to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-20 18:49:43 - On 2/20/08 at 1:54 PM, lists@F-P-I.com (Richard Fairbanks) wrote: >I have been having challenges scripting BBEdit to activate or quit if >any dialog box ( Info., Find & Replace , etc.) is open. WAYRTTD? Interaction through dialog boxes, modal or o...

Re: Inserting a line return

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:21:13 -0500

John Delacour to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-20 18:21:13 - At 07:43 -0500 18/2/08, Morley Chalmers wrote: >...Since posting my issue someone suggested adding just \r to the >script. However, all that does is cause a line return to the script >itself when the script is compiled. When the script is run on th...

Re: Scripting BBEdit Doesn't Work If Find DBox is Open

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:23:45 -0500

Doug McNutt to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-20 16:23:45 - At 13:54 -0700 2/20/08, Richard Fairbanks wrote: >I have been having challenges scripting BBEdit to activate or quit if any dialog box ("Info., "Find & Replace", etc.) is open. A simple example is to launch BBedit, open "Find & Replace", and then run the...

Scripting BBEdit Doesn?t Work If Find DBox is Open

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:54:15 -0500

Richard Fairbanks to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-20 15:54:15 - Greetings, folks! I have been having challenges scripting BBEdit to activate or quit if any dialog box ( Info., Find & Replace , etc.) is open. A simple example is to launch BBedit, open Find & Replace , and then run the following script in a s...

Re: Inserting a line return

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:20:25 -0500

Darryl Chrisp to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-18 15:20:25 - On 19/02/2008, at 02:41, Morley Chalmers wrote: > I was likewise confused coming onto this list. Made a comment and > got back a > message that seemed to defend the status quo of silence. They > really should > be quite explicit for newcomers, ...

Re: Inserting a line return

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:41:34 -0500

Morley Chalmers to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-18 10:41:34 - on 2/18/08 7:43 AM, Dennis at argenteus@mac.com wrote: > On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:48 AM, Morley Chalmers wrote: > >> I'm using an AppleScript to search and replace in an HTML BBEdit >> file. Is >> there syntax available for including line returns in ...

Re: Inserting a line return

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:43:22 -0500

Morley Chalmers to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-18 07:43:22 - on 2/15/08 12:01 PM, Ronald J Kimball at rjk-barebones@tamias.net wrote: >> Yes, the HTML code works just fine without a return, but returns in the >> correct place definitely makes HTML code easier to read. I've tried adding >> \\r in between but Ap...

Re: Inserting a line return

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:43:18 -0500

Dennis to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-18 07:43:18 - On Feb 15, 2008, at 4:48 AM, Morley Chalmers wrote: > I'm using an AppleScript to search and replace in an HTML BBEdit > file. Is > there syntax available for including line returns in the replace > string? In > the following fragment I'd like ...

Re: Inserting a line return

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:01:49 -0500

Ronald J Kimball to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-15 12:01:49 - On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 07:48:02AM -0500, Morley Chalmers wrote: > Yes, the HTML code works just fine without a return, but returns in the > correct place definitely makes HTML code easier to read. I've tried adding > \\r in between but AppleScript j...

Inserting a line return

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:48:02 -0500

Morley Chalmers to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-02-15 07:48:02 - I'm using an AppleScript to search and replace in an HTML BBEdit file. Is there syntax available for including line returns in the replace string? In the following fragment I'd like to insert a real line return between and . Yes, th...

Re: Replace lines beginning with a specific word

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:00:45 -0500

Steve Nicholson to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-29 23:00:45 - On Jan 29, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > > This regex will find the block of lines all beginning with 'mash': > > (^mash.*\r)+ > > For a simple approach, you could just use that in the Find dialog. > I'll > have to leave the Apple...

Re: Replace lines beginning with a specific word

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:38:17 -0500

Ronald J Kimball to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-29 21:38:17 - On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:39:34PM -0800, Steve Nicholson wrote: > I need to replace a number of contiguous lines in the file I'm > editing that begin with a specific word ('mash' in the example) with > the contents of the clipboard. > Aside fro...

Replace lines beginning with a specific word

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:39:34 -0500

Steve Nicholson to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-29 19:39:34 - I need to replace a number of contiguous lines in the file I'm editing that begin with a specific word ('mash' in the example) with the contents of the clipboard. example file: 'some text' .... 'some text' mash 432 mash 623 mash 543 ... ...

Re: Find matches in a variable

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:34:39 -0500

Rich Siegel to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-28 08:34:39 - On 1/27/08 at 10:03 PM, larry@mcmutual.com (Larry McMunn) wrote: >How can I script the equivalent of a "Find All" on a variable >to get every line/paragraph that contains my find string? Have a look at the "process lines containing" verb and see i...

Re: Find matches in a variable

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:30:41 -0500

Shane Stanley to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-28 05:30:41 - On 28/1/08 2:03 PM, "Larry McMunn" wrote: > I use this constantly to perform GREP replacements on variables: > tell application "BBEdit" to set theString to replace findString > using newString searchingString theString options {...

Find matches in a variable

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:03:39 -0500

Larry McMunn to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-27 22:03:39 - I use this constantly to perform GREP replacements on variables: tell application "BBEdit" to set theString to replace findString using newString searchingString theString options {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, match words:false} How ...

Re: Help with scripting "convert to ASCII"

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:53:43 -0500

John Delacour to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-19 22:53:43 - At 01:32 +0000 20/1/08, Melissa wrote: >...I need to convert some German text >to ASCII. I know there's a "convert to ASCII" option which swaps out >the umlauts for the vowel+e, but sometimes I need to alter text >written with word caps, as well as ...

Re: get URL of FTP Info fails in BBEdit 8.7.2

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:45:05 -0500

Mr. Dan Pouliot to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-19 21:45:05 - >> I've been using BBEdit 7 for a long time and am evaluating >> upgrading to 8.7.2 (got a demo copy), but one of my applescripts >> that worked fine in 7 is now failing in 8.7.2. >> >> I've boiled it down to this: >> >> tell application "BBEdit...

Help with scripting "convert to ASCII"

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 20:32:52 -0500

Melissa to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-19 20:32:52 - Hi, I'm writing an AppleScript where I need to convert some German text to ASCII. I know there's a "convert to ASCII" option which swaps out the umlauts for the vowel+e, but sometimes I need to alter text written with word caps, as well as all upper...

Re: get URL of FTP Info fails in BBEdit 8.7.2

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:15:17 -0500

Maarten Sneep to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-18 13:15:17 - On 18 jan 2008, at 18:06, Mr. Dan Pouliot wrote: > I've been using BBEdit 7 for a long time and am evaluating upgrading > to 8.7.2 (got a demo copy), but one of my applescripts that worked > fine in 7 is now failing in 8.7.2. > > I've boiled it...

get URL of FTP Info fails in BBEdit 8.7.2

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:06:16 -0500

Mr. Dan Pouliot to BBEdit Scripting on 2008-01-18 12:06:16 - I've been using BBEdit 7 for a long time and am evaluating upgrading to 8.7.2 (got a demo copy), but one of my applescripts that worked fine in 7 is now failing in 8.7.2. I've boiled it down to this: tell application "BBEdit" set ftpInfo t...

Script Printing a document in landscape mode

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:12:17 -0500

Douglas W McKibbin to BBEdit Scripting on 2007-12-30 09:12:17 - How can I in applescript, script printing a document in landscape mode? Can I force a page setup dialog to appear? I have tried to script a print dialog box to appear before printing but I just can't get the syntax right. Thank you Douglas ...

Re: sort pattern stumper

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:36:53 -0500

Bill Metzinger to BBEdit Scripting on 2007-12-18 17:36:53 - Ronald, 1000 thanks that works great bill in pa -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to , ...

Re: Rename file with variable?

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:25:08 -0500

John Delacour to BBEdit Scripting on 2007-12-18 17:25:08 - At 11:34 -0500 13/12/07, Tof17 wrote: > save text document 1 to {(file "Macintosh HD:Users:Tof:Desktop:BBEDIT >Saves:"), newVar & ".txt"} > >end tell > >****************** > > >The last line is causing a problem, it's probably something very si...

Re: sort pattern stumper

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:03:39 -0500

Ronald J Kimball to BBEdit Scripting on 2007-12-18 16:03:39 - On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 03:36:50PM -0500, Bill Metzinger wrote: > hi all > I'm using the following match pattern in applescripts to sort lines > of tab delimited text > > {match pattern:"^([^ ]* ){3}(.*)$", sort subpattern > key:all subpatterns}...

sort pattern stumper

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:36:50 -0500

Bill Metzinger to BBEdit Scripting on 2007-12-18 15:36:50 - hi all I'm using the following match pattern in applescripts to sort lines of tab delimited text {match pattern:"^([^ ]* ){3}(.*)$", sort subpattern key:all subpatterns} {match pattern:"^([^ ]* ){7}(.*)$", sort subpattern key:all subpatterns} ...