If you add the text factory as a Text Filter then you can assign it a keyboard shortcut. Put it in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/ and then you can run it from the Text > Text Filters menu or assign a keyboard shortcut in Settings... on the Menus & Shortcuts tab.
h/t Christopher Stone. [fletcher] > On May 22, 2023, at 8:24 AM, Mark Mayberry <markmaybe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear Kaveh, > > YES! Thank you! I tried the same procedure in Text Factory and it worked > PERFECTLY! Quick question: Is it possible to set up a shortcut keystroke in > BBEdit that (when pressed) will run my newly created TextFactory? > > Yours, > > Mark > > On 22 May 2023, at 10:20, Kaveh Bazargan wrote: > > Hi Mark > > I think Text Factory is indeed what you need. it is not based on keystrokes, > but BBEdit actions that are carried out one after another. Here is a glimpse > of one I made to convert VCF to CSV. I am using just regular expressions, but > you can use any BBEdit command. > > Regards > Kaveh > > > On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 16:07, Mark Mayberry <markmaybe...@gmail.com > <mailto:markmaybe...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Dear Rich, >> >> Thanks! I have not yet explored “Text Factory” but will give it a whirl. >> Since we are talking about an internal BBEdit set of keystrokes, it might be >> better to stay “in house.” >> >> Yours, >> >> Mark >> >> On 22 May 2023, at 9:10, Rich Siegel wrote: >> >> > On 22 May 2023, at 10:04, Mark Mayberry wrote: >> > >> >> I am attempting to set up create a macro that would automate the process >> >> of >> >> cleaning up a block of text as I import it into BBEdit. I have >> >> successfully >> >> created a macro that selects the Text Menu in BBEdit to (1) Straighten >> >> Quotes, (2) Strip Trailing Whitespace, and (3) Normalize Line Endings. >> >> These steps are easy. >> >> [...] >> > >> > I don't know anything about Keyboard Maestro, but have you considered >> > using a Text Factory for this? >> > >> > Start with File => New => Text Factory and go from there. >> > >> > R. >> > >> > -- >> > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. 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