tks Roland - will experiment!

> On 17 Jan 2025, at 09:43, Roland Küffner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> you could replace the default "Go to Next Placeholder" functionality (= 
> pressing TAB) by a custom script that removes the Placeholder syntax 
> "<#...#>" and jumps to the next Placeholder.
> 
> I tried to record a quick and dirty Applescript that worked on my (very 
> basic) tests:
> tell application "BBEdit"
> activate
> replace "<#(.+?)#>" using "\\1" searching in selection of text window 1 
> options {search mode:grep}
> end tell
> tell application "System Events" to keystroke " "
> 
> Please mind that the keystroke command in the last line has a literal tab in 
> it's string – you could also use keystroke (ASCII character 9)
> 
> The placeholder must already be selected (probably by having pressed TAB).
> 
> All you would have to to is to save such a script, give it a keyboard 
> shortcut, jump to the first placeholder (TAB) and use your shortcut from 
> there,
> Not ideal, but maybe better than removing them brackets with bare hands.
> Regards
> Roland
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 2:50 AM john Mitchell <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hi all
>> 
>> bbedit version 15.1.3 (15B62, Apple Silicon)
>> macOS 15.2 (24C101)
>> 
>> I get this completion example (inPython):
>> 
>> change_individual_name(<# level_families #>, <# family_id #>, <# child_id 
>> #>, <# new_name #>)
>> 
>> is there a (smart) way to accept the variable names instead of deleting the 
>> delimiters. 
>> In this example the first 3 arguments are identical, but the last argument 
>> will have a custom edit, and of course there will be great variation in 
>> arguments
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> John Mitchell
>> 
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