JJ Works great thank you. > On Aug 24, 2025, at 8:27 AM, jj <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Todd, > > This applescript seems to do what you want : > > tell application "BBEdit" > try > tell first document of front window > set vSelectionEnd to (characterOffset of its window's > selection) - 1 > set vRegex to "\\\\[A-Za-z0-9_ > \\s]*(?:\\s+\"[^\"]*\")?\\s*(\\[(?:[^\\[\\]]+|(?1))*\\])(?:(\\s*=\\s*)(?P<function_name>[a-zA-Z0-9_!?]+))?" > set vOptions to {search mode:grep, wrap around:false, > backwards:true} > set vResult to find vRegex searching in it options > vOptions > if vResult's found then > set vSelectionStart to characterOffset of > vResult's found object > else > error "Pattern not found." > end if > select its characters vSelectionStart thru vSelectionEnd > end tell > on error aMessage number aErrorNumber > if aErrorNumber ≠ -128 then -- Error number -128 (User > Cancelled). > display dialog aMessage > else > return > end if > end try > end tell > > Successfully tested against those expressions (courtesy of Claude): > > \section [main] > \config "default settings" [database] = connect > \path [logs] > \module [auth[user]] = login_handler > \service [web_server] = nginx > \handler "error pages" [404[custom]] = not_found! > \backup [files] = backup_job > \system [network[tcp[port]]] = handle_connections? > \data "user info" [profiles] = user_manager > \temp [cache[memory[buffer]]] = cache_clear! > > HTH, > > Jean Jourdain > On Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 2:02:53 AM UTC+2 Todd Ingalls wrote: >> Hello, >> I am working on something in an esoteric language and have a Function >> Pattern that works great >> \\[A-Za-z0-9_ >> \s]*(?:\s+"[^"]*")?\s*(\[(?:[^\[\]]+|(?1))*\])(?:(\s*=\s*)(?P<function_name>[a-zA-Z0-9_!?]+))? >> >> What I want to be able to do is from wherever my cursor is to search >> backwards and find the beginning of this function definition and then select >> all the text from where my cursor was to the beginning of the function. >> >> I can use find previous with the grep pattern and that will select that >> function but not the text from where my cursor was. I can also use Reveal >> Start in Go->Functions to move the cursor to the beginning of the previous >> function. I just can't seem to figure out how to quite accomplish what I >> want in AppleScript. Any thoughts would be appreciated >> > > > -- > 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 a topic in the Google > Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/bbedit/GGeHrjKwjkk/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/d6ec7d50-afef-4339-a18e-71791f5cb216n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/d6ec7d50-afef-4339-a18e-71791f5cb216n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>.
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