>> I noticed “Go To Next Word, End” ignores words which are followed by >> punctuation (except full stops) rather than a space:
> I took off my lazy hat and had a go rewriting the regex myself: > > tell application "BBEdit" > find "(?<=\\w)\\b" searching in text of front text window options > {search mode:grep, starting at top:false, wrap around:false, > backwards:false, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend > selection:false} with selecting match > end tell > > This does “Go To Next Word, End” for me. Am I missing something? My first approach to this problem was identical to yours, look for the boundary between a word character and a word border. But this is no different than using the option-right-arrow shortcut. I'm defining exactly what I think is punctuation should be, and where BBEdit should move within it, instead of leaving it up to BBEdit. For example: with the word "can't" your script (and BBEdit's built-in movement) moves between the N and the apostrophe, mine moves to the end of the actual word. You're right that my script could use some refinement. Specifically, I (stupidly) hadn't accounted for commas, colons, semicolons, underscores, and asterisks. I also hadn't accounted for punctuation inside brackets (etc)! Here's the better version (I also improved movement at the end of the line): tell application "BBEdit" find "(?<=[\\w\\d]|$)(?=$|['\\\"][ )\\]}?!\\-\\.,;:\\*_$]| |[)\\]}?!\\-\\.,;:\\*_])" searching in text of front text window options {search mode:grep} with selecting match end tell -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>