Hi again,
On 24 August 2012 00:32, Oliver Taylor <olivertay...@me.com> wrote:
> 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.
It is slightly different in that it doesn’t match “word boundaries”
immediately after punctuation. Although I can see that is a useful
distinction.
> 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.
> tell application "BBEdit"
> find "(?<=[\\w\\d]|$)(?=$|['\\\"][ )\\]}?!\\-\\.,;:\\*_$]|
> |[)\\]}?!\\-\\.,;:\\*_])" searching in text of front text window options
> {search mode:grep} with selecting match
> end tell
I’m curious, what punctuation would this regex not account for?:
(?<=\w)\b(?![^\w\s]\w)
Cheers Ollie
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