Here's a really simple AppleScript I wrote this morning to take a
selection of
Mr Toad's Wild Ride
and put
mr_toads_wild_ride.txt
on the clipboard for convenient pasting into the save dialog. I can't
believe it took me this long to write the dumb thing, since I do this
all the time for random recipes, blog posts, and various other items
that I write in BBEdit.
to use, copy and paste this into Script Editor ( or Script Debugger )
and save it in your BBEdit Scripts folder. See the BBEdit Manual if this
makes no sense to you. I also gave it a handy key-command of
Shift-Cmd-D. It was physically close to Cmd-S, which is my next command
after this one.
--
tell application "BBEdit"
set theName to contents of selection
set theName to change case theName making lower case
set theName to replace " " using "_" searchingString theName
set theName to replace "'" using "" searchingString theName
-- set theName to theName
set contents of current clipboard to theName & ".txt"
end tell
--
Hopefully someone finds this as useful as I have. There are obvious
improvements like stripping out any shell-escaped characters, but I
don't ever write those in a title, so I did the lazy thing.
Laziness ( I hate typing damn filenames )
Impatience ( I couldn't wait any longer for someone else to solve the
problem )
Hubris ( I think someone might find this useful )
Must be good!
- brian
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