Bruce, Agreed. Makes sense. Though the notion runs everything They tried to teach us all these years!
thanks, JIM On Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 9:58:35 AM UTC Bruce Van Allen wrote: > Meant to also say: I know - hard coding a path, ew! One alternative if you > have a BBEdit Project involving multiple files you’ll be working on for a > while - I have a bunch of those - you could install a project's own two > compare docs in the project, and the script could reference then via the > current Project, rather than hard-coding their paths. OTOH, hard-coding on > your regular work machine where this need will arise is not necessarily > evil. And the location could be fairly universal, such as in the > /Users/Shared/ directory. > > > On Dec 8, 2024, at 1:48 AM, Bruce Van Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > One more improvement would be to permanently dedicate two files for this > use. Locate them in some safe place - not temp files - named so you’ll > remember not to accidentally delete later, e.g., “CompareDoc1” & > “CompareDoc2”. Then hard-code them with paths in your script. Eliminates > all the steps related to creating files. The script can overwrite the > previous comparison’s text fragments each time it’s called, or maybe just > close the files without saving, leaving the files on disk always blank. > > > > HTH, > > > >> On Dec 7, 2024, at 6:55 PM, Jim Leff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Rick, thanks, but I got ChatGPT to create the script for me. Here it > is. It requests the two snippets and transfers them to docs on desktop (and > opens desktop folder so you can delete them), then opens Find Differences > with the snippets properly selected (stealing from JJ's work!). > >> > >> It runs well but requires BBEdit's Command Line Tools and some > permissions tweaks: > >> > > > > — Bruce > > > > _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ > > > > > > -- > > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature > request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please > email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on > Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@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 [email protected]. > > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/6DA0A5D7-8E0D-4FE0-804B-E62FC8E536DE%40cruzio.com > . > > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/ffcd2e06-9c67-4b2d-857d-c4761a45e06cn%40googlegroups.com.
