On 5/26/20 at 12:36 AM, hal...@frontier.com (Hal Day) wrote:
I am learning to use AppleScript for BBEdit to do find/replace
editing. I find that replace does "replace all", and have not
discovered how one does a single find/replace.
In general, BBEdit's AppleScript support is for intended
automating text processing and other non-UI operations, and not
for replicating the UI. (Some UI elements such as window shapes
and ordering can be manipulated using AppleScript, but that's
not its primary purpose in BBEdit.)
The operation of the "Replace" menu command thus might be
modeled as:
1. Search for the desired string/pattern, specifying the text to
be searched and the search options;
2. set the contents of the found range (if any) to a desired string.
The "find" event returns a result, which includes information
about the matched range of text (and whether the search
succeeded). You can then explicitly replace the range of text
with something else, as desired.
You can get a pretty good head start on what BBEdit supports by
choosing "Open Scripting Dictionary" from the Scripts menu.
R.
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