Hi Raleigh,
This Applescript snippet
<https://gist.github.com/mixio/9d9a7cd873b931341e34042233b8ef7e> is a bit
of a hack that takes advantage of Unicode combining codepoints to create a
p͇s͇e͇u͇d͇o͇ ͇u͇n͇d͇e͇r͇l͇i͇n͇e͇ ͇s͇t͇y͇l͇e͇.
It works by inserting the combining underline codepoint (U+0347 COMBINING
EQUALS SIGN BELOW) after each character of the selection, skipping
linefeeds.
Applying the script on a selection will u͇n͇d͇e͇r͇l͇i͇n͇e͇ it.
Applying the script on a selection that already contains some
u͇n͇d͇e͇r͇l͇i͇n͇e͇ will remove all the selection's underlines.
Applying the script when all of the document is selected (after a
"Select All") will removes all the document underlines.
You can find / replace / mark the u͇n͇d͇e͇r͇l͇i͇n͇e͇d͇ ͇s͇e͇c͇t͇i͇o͇n͇s͇
with this regular expression:
((?:(?:.\x{0347})+\n?)+)
HTH
Jean Jourdain
On Friday, January 7, 2022 at 7:03:48 PM UTC+1 Patrick Woolsey wrote:
> On 1/7/22 at 11:28 AM, rale...@gmail.com (Raleigh Rinehart) wrote:
>
> >I was wondering if there is a way to set a specific style for
> >particular text matches, regardless of what language is
> >selected for the document.
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >What I am looking for is[...] to be able to select some text
> >and "mark" it with a highlight or different style permanently
> >(until explicitly cleared/"un-marked" by the user).
>
>
> I regret there is not; the closest it's feasible to come at
> present would be to create a codeless language module, within
> which you can define any desired custom elements.
>
> This is however a "fixed", string/pattern-driven solution rather
> than an interactive one of the sort you describe.
>
> (NB: We have previously gotten other requests for this general
> capability and it is on our radar; further than that, I cannot
> speculate. :-)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Patrick Woolsey
> ==
> Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/>
>
>
>
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