christopher -
you are such a stud... the assistance you've provided me in this group and
privately has been invaluable. i know i can look forward to learning
something from your posts, and seek them out.
let me know if you get tired of appreciation and thanks... in the meantime,
thank you again for your continued awesomeness.
bruce
On Tuesday, February 28, 2012 3:41:27 PM UTC-8, Christopher Stone wrote:
>
> On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:54, Gribnif wrote:
>
> I frequently use Compare Two Front Documents, rather than Find
> Differences, because the latter requires that you choose the documents to
> compare (and I often have over a hundred open at once!)
>
> The problem with CTFD is that there is no way to change the Ignore Spaces
> settings, like there is for FD. Yes, I know that if I go into FD and change
> things the way I want them and hit the Compare button, those settings will
> stick for CTFD, but that is very inconvenient. It also seems to me that
> this is confusing from a UI perspective, since the settings used by CTFD
> are not associated with its menu entry.
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> Hey There,
>
> I think I agree with you on this one.
>
> Unlike in the 'sort lines' command vs the 'sort lines' dialog you cannot
> open the 'find differences' dialog, change settings, dismiss the dialog,
> and have those new settings work for 'compare front two documents'.
>
> Does anyone know of a way around this? I've tried various modifier key
> combinations, and can't get CTFD to show the settings dialog.
>
>
> This is what the manual says:
>
> "Performs a Find Differences on the two frontmost text documents, using
> the same settings currently active for the Find Differences command."
>
> I think you should contact support with a feature request. Bare Bones
> Software <sup...@barebones.com <javascript:>>
>
> In the meantime you can script it to your liking:
>
> try
> tell *application* "BBEdit"
> *compare* *window* 1 against *window* 2 options ¬
> {case sensitive:true, ignore curly quotes:true, ignore extra spaces:true,
> ignore
> leading spaces:true, ignore trailing spaces:true}
> end tell
> on error eMsg number eNum
> set {c, s} to {return, "------------------------------------------"}
> set e to s & c & "Error: " & eMsg & c & s & c & "Error Number: " & eNum &
> c & s
> *beep*
> *display dialog* e
> end try
>
> If you want more flexibility you can do something like this:
>
> set compOpts to {"All Options: false", "case sensitive:true", "ignore
> curly quotes:true", "ignore extra spaces:true", "ignore leading
> spaces:true", "ignore trailing spaces:true"}
>
> tell *application* "BBEdit"
>
>
> tell me to set compOpts to *choose from list* compOpts ¬
> with title "Compare Front Two Documents" with prompt ¬
> "Select Options" default items (*items* 2 thru -1 of compOpts) ¬
> multiple selections allowed true ¬
> with empty selection allowed
>
>
> end tell
>
> Note that this script only demonstrates using choose-from for options and
> doesn't flesh-out the logics of actually using the items returned.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>
>
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