Re: Select word

[Oliver Taylor]

On Jul 3, 2013, at 6:36, Rick Yentzer  wrote:

> What I'm looking for is a way to select a word and then select more words 
> until I get the selection I want.
> 
> I'll use this as an example:
> "grunt-contrib-nodeunit"
> 
> If my cursor is in the middle of the word "contrib" then I can double click 
> to select it, or I can use John Gruber's Select Word script.
> If my cursor is in the middle of "contrib" and I want to select the text 
> between the double quotes, what is the best solution?

See here: http://olivertaylor.net/bbedit_movement/

The select word script in that package assumes hyphenated words should be 
selected when you want to "select word".

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Re: Select word

[Rick Yentzer]

Palm to forehead!  Thanks.
Rick

On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 3:41:54 PM UTC-4, Roland Küffner wrote:
>
>
> Am 03.07.2013 um 21:05 schrieb Rick Yentzer >: 
>
> > Addition: Is there a script to select text between opening and closing 
> tags? 
>
> no script needed. See "Balance" in the "View" Menu and "Balance Tags" in 
> the "Markup Menu" 
>
> -Roland

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Re: Select word

[Roland Küffner]

Am 03.07.2013 um 21:05 schrieb Rick Yentzer :
> Addition: Is there a script to select text between opening and closing tags?

no script needed. See "Balance" in the "View" Menu and "Balance Tags" in the 
"Markup Menu"

-Roland

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Re: Select word

[Rick Yentzer]

Marshall, I'm looking for non mouse word selection.

David, that is how I do it now, I was just hoping there was a faster way. I 
can't remember now but it seemed that in one editor I was able to expand my 
word selection by repeating a keyboard shortcut. That is what I had in mind.

Roland and San, both of these scripts work in selecting text between quotes.

Addition: Is there a script to select text between opening and closing tags?

Thanks for your help.

Rick


On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 9:36:15 AM UTC-4, Rick Yentzer wrote:
>
> After searching the manual and this forum I was unable to find the 
> solution I'm looking for so here goes.
>
> I do most of my coding work on my macbook pro. So I don't have the 
> extended keyboard and I'm trying to save my tennis elbow by not having to 
> move my hands much.
>
> What I'm looking for is a way to select a word and then select more words 
> until I get the selection I want.
>
> I'll use this as an example:
> *"grunt-contrib-nodeunit"
> *
>
> If my cursor is in the middle of the word "contrib" then I can double 
> click to select it, or I can use John Gruber's Select Word script.
> If my cursor is in the middle of "contrib" and I want to select the text 
> between the double quotes, what is the best solution?
>
> RIght now it appears I have two options; I can either double-click to 
> select "contrib" or use the track pad (too slow!) to select the text 
> between the double quotes, or I can use the "select word script". The 
> latter doesn't have a way to extend the selection.
>
> What do others do?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
>

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Re: Select word

[Ron Fleckner]

On 03/07/2013, at 11:36 PM, Rick Yentzer  wrote:

> After searching the manual and this forum I was unable to find the solution 
> I'm looking for so here goes.
> 
> I do most of my coding work on my macbook pro. So I don't have the extended 
> keyboard and I'm trying to save my tennis elbow by not having to move my 
> hands much.
> 
> What I'm looking for is a way to select a word and then select more words 
> until I get the selection I want.
> 
> I'll use this as an example:
> "grunt-contrib-nodeunit"
> 
> If my cursor is in the middle of the word "contrib" then I can double click 
> to select it, or I can use John Gruber's Select Word script.
> If my cursor is in the middle of "contrib" and I want to select the text 
> between the double quotes, what is the best solution?
> 
> RIght now it appears I have two options; I can either double-click to select 
> "contrib" or use the track pad (too slow!) to select the text between the 
> double quotes, or I can use the "select word script". The latter doesn't have 
> a way to extend the selection.
> 
> What do others do?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rick
> 

The way I'd do it if the cursor was within 'contrib': Option-left arrow to 
beginning of 'grunt', then Option-Shift-right arrow to the end of 'nodeunit' to 
make the selection.

Option-arrow moves the cursor to the end or beginning of a word.  Adding Shift 
will also select.

Ron

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Re: Select word

[Lawrence San]

Here's an alternative form of a 'select a quoted passage' script. It was
posted in this list by someone back around May of 2011, I believe. It seems
to work, but I haven't tried the version you just posted so I have no
opinion as to which might be better. Sorry I don't know the name of the
script's author. Here it is:

tell application "BBEdit"

-- search backwards for non-escaped quote character
find "[^](\"|')" searching in text 1 of text document 1 options
{search mode:grep, starting at top:false, wrap around:false,
backwards:true, case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend
selection:false} with selecting match

set quotePat to "[^]" & (grep substitution of "\\1")
select insertion point after selection
set theStart to characterOffset of selection

-- find first appearence of just found quote
find quotePat searching in text 1 of text document 1 options {search
mode:grep, starting at top:false, wrap around:false, backwards:false, case
sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false} with selecting
match
select insertion point before selection
set theEnd to (characterOffset of selection)

-- select string without quotes
select characters theStart through theEnd of text 1 of text document 1

end tell

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Re: Select word

[Roland Küffner]

Am 03.07.2013 um 15:36 schrieb Rick Yentzer :
> What I'm looking for is a way to select a word and then select more words 
> until I get the selection I want.

> "grunt-contrib-nodeunit"
> 
> If my cursor is in the middle of "contrib" and I want to select the text 
> between the double quotes, what is the best solution?


With BBEdit's script recording feature and some childish apple script babbling 
I once was able to conjure a script that does exactly that: Select the text 
between two quotation marks. Beware that this script is pretty dumb and will 
trip over escaped quotations marks and alike. Perhaps someone on the list has a 
better version of this.
But this has been working for me for years and I use it all the time (with a 
keyboard shortcut, of course).

Regards,
Roland


The Script:

tell application "BBEdit"
find "(\"|')" searching in text 1 of text document 1 options {search 
mode:grep, starting at top:false, wrap around:false, backwards:true, case 
sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false} with selecting match
set daString to (grep substitution of "\\1")
select insertion point after selection
set theStart to characterOffset of selection
find daString searching in text 1 of text document 1 options {search 
mode:grep, starting at top:false, wrap around:false, backwards:false, case 
sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false} with selecting match
select insertion point before selection
set theEnd to (characterOffset of selection) - 1
select characters theStart through theEnd of text 1 of text document 1
end tell

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Re: Select word

[David Dierauer]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2013, Rick Yentzer wrote:

*snip*


I'll use this as an example:
*"grunt-contrib-nodeunit"
*

If my cursor is in the middle of the word "contrib" then I can double click
to select it, or I can use John Gruber's Select Word script.
If my cursor is in the middle of "contrib" and I want to select the text
between the double quotes, what is the best solution?



I would type option-right-arrow until I got past the end of "nodeunit", then 
shift-option-left-arrow until the selection was the way I wanted it. It may 
sound slow, but it's very fast once you've gotten used to the shortcuts. I 
almost never have to resort to the mouse to make a selection in BBEdit.


-David

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Re: Select word

[Marshall Clow]

On Jul 3, 2013, at 6:36 AM, Rick Yentzer  wrote:

> After searching the manual and this forum I was unable to find the solution 
> I'm looking for so here goes.
> 
> I do most of my coding work on my macbook pro. So I don't have the extended 
> keyboard and I'm trying to save my tennis elbow by not having to move my 
> hands much.
> 
> What I'm looking for is a way to select a word and then select more words 
> until I get the selection I want.

Double-click, hold and drag will select by words.

click, release, click again, and don't release the "mouse button". Now move the 
mouse, and see the selection grow by words.

-- Marshall


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Select word

[Rick Yentzer]

After searching the manual and this forum I was unable to find the solution 
I'm looking for so here goes.

I do most of my coding work on my macbook pro. So I don't have the extended 
keyboard and I'm trying to save my tennis elbow by not having to move my 
hands much.

What I'm looking for is a way to select a word and then select more words 
until I get the selection I want.

I'll use this as an example:
*"grunt-contrib-nodeunit"
*

If my cursor is in the middle of the word "contrib" then I can double click 
to select it, or I can use John Gruber's Select Word script.
If my cursor is in the middle of "contrib" and I want to select the text 
between the double quotes, what is the best solution?

RIght now it appears I have two options; I can either double-click to 
select "contrib" or use the track pad (too slow!) to select the text 
between the double quotes, or I can use the "select word script". The 
latter doesn't have a way to extend the selection.

What do others do?

Thanks,
Rick

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