Good afternoon,
On 18/06/09 at 3:33 PM -0700, Tim Gray <tg...@125px.com> wrote:
>Unix scripts for sure are hobbled by the fact they they get zero
>information from BBEdit as to what's going on in the editor. I have a
>couple scripts that use rsync to sync some websites, etc., but you
>could do a lot more if they had access to what file you are currently
>editing and what line you were on.
I hadn't looked at their (possible) use like that before. If a
unix script had access to some of that, then I can see quite a
few AppleScripts being replaced with Unix Scripts.
The blocking of AppleEvents during the Unix Script run does seem
very limiting though. Hmm, I think I ran into that ages ago and
just went with AppleScripts instead, so forgot about that limitation.
If you have the current characters/lines, file path, etc
available in ENV in a unix script, what do you want to do with
that info? If the document is not saved, I can't count on the
on-disk version being the same, so current selected text ranges
would not be reliable. And the text contents are not available
via AppleEvents.
So, if we could have "information" in ENV for Unix Scripts as
well as access to BBEdit through AppleEvents, I can see much
greater use for them. But at the same time, I can't think of any
examples of anything I might choose a Unix Script for, that I
can't also do fairly easily via an AppleScript. In the case of
complex unix script, I just use AppleScript as glue to set up
environment variables, command arguments, etc.
I'm curious to know what current situations Unix Scripts are
being used for. Who's using them?
Charlie
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