Just thought maybe I could do it with AppleScript, but apparently BBEdit has no entry in the script dictionary for "search in selection". It's the only option not there. :-(
On Saturday, October 20, 2018 at 9:11:03 AM UTC-7, John Springer wrote: > > Came here to pose exactly this question. Many years ago, BBEdit worked > that way: if you had text selected and hit Cmd-F, it checked "selected text > only" automatically. I would love this feature, and wondered why they ever > took it out. Will try to train myself to use the Ctl-shift-S control. I > guess the condition for automatic search-in-selected should be text is > selected AND the selected text isn't the same as the search object. > > In response to someone that mentioned selection might be what you are > looking FOR, I can see that being handy as well. Of course you can always > select and hit Cmd-E (in pretty much any app) to store the search object. > > Maybe we should have 3 ways to invoke Find: > Just open the Find dialog > Open Find with search object = selected ( like Cmd-E, Cmd-F). > Open Find with "selected only" checked (like Cmd-F, Ctl-shift-S). > > > On Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 5:19:59 AM UTC-7, vr...@sbcglobal.net > wrote: >> >> Is there a way to make that happen, i.e. that when text is highlighted, >> the search window automatically has the "Selected text only" checked, and >> when there is no text selected, it doesn't? I've looked through Preferences >> and nothing sticks out, and I searched the menus and manual and didn't find >> anything there, either. That would lead me to suspect there isn't a way to >> do it, but I thought I'd check to make sure. >> >> I don't want to do something different in each case, I just want Cmd-F to >> open with the box checked if there is text selected in the document, and >> unchecked if there isn't. >> >> I'm used to text editors doing that on their own; it's a pain to have to >> remember to check it and then remember to uncheck it the next time I search >> with no text selected. >> >> Thanks! >> > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
