I fixed the issue of multiple lines being selected when you use it. I
think some of the math can be simplified, but I wasn't up for it as
everything seemed to work right.
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tell application "BBEdit" to tell front window
-- Grab line number and offset of text cursor
tell the selection to set {_n, _selectionstart} to {startLine,
characterOffset}
set _selectLength to length of (contents of selection as text)
if (_selectLength) > 0 then
set _selectionstart to _selectionstart + _selectLength
end if
-- Grab offset of line in the document and the contents of the line
tell line _n to set {_linestart, _line} to {characterOffset,
contents}
set _cursor to _selectionstart - _linestart
if _cursor = 0 then return
set _smart to 0
-- Go through content of line looking for smart home position
set _len to count _line
-- Ensure line is not empty
if _len = 0 then return
-- Traverse line to find first non-whitespace
repeat with _i from 1 to _len
if item _i of _line is not in {space, tab, ASCII character 202}
then
set _smart to _i - 1
exit repeat
else
set _smart to _len
end if
end repeat
-- Ensure smart is not past cursor
if _smart > _cursor then set _smart to _cursor
-- Check if smart position is where cursor is, if so select from
start of line
if _smart is _cursor or (_cursor - _selectLength = _smart) then
select (characters (_selectionstart - _cursor) through
(_selectionstart - 1))
else -- Select from smart position
select (characters (_selectionstart - _cursor + _smart) through
(_selectionstart - 1))
end if
end tell
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-Kendall
On Aug 6, 10:54 am, offtone <aaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, Kendall, for that. It's nearly perfect (throws an error if
> more than one line is selected). Both are now bound to CMD+LEFT and CMD
> +SHIFT+LEFT respectively, and working pretty much identically to those
> other IDEs and text editors! I may need to buy a book on Apple Script,
> I think. Haha. The "library" seems totally insufficient for learning
> it on its own. Did you learn it through experimentation, or books,
> or...? I'm a graphic designer and I have a feeling I could do some
> pretty sweet things with Illustrator and Photoshop too, if I could
> just get a grip on the language.
>
> I may fire off an e-mail to Bare Bones with a link to this thread. I'm
> sure they'd be willing to implement this on their own.
>
> Thanks again!
>
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