Re: EBCDIC support in BBEdit

[Rich Siegel]

On 5/19/18 at 2:56 PM, g...@weijers.org (Gé Weijers) wrote:

I'm having some trouble figuring out which exact code page is 
being used by BBedit for the "Western (EBCDIC Latin-1)" 
character set.


It's probably 037, based on the Apple developer documentation: 
.

Enjoy,

R.
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Re: A "notebook" for BBEdit?

[Jimmbo]

Oh, man, this discussion is exactly what I was looking for! I'd be super 
grateful if any of you could update.

As a visitor from the future, I know a few things:

1. VoodooPad is back in development
2. nvALT crashes less
3. Simplenote synching has apparently gotten even worse.
4. The app "Keep It" lets you edit in BBEdit (by changing the default 
stationary file type and ensuring Finder associates that type - txt, html, 
or md - with BBEdit).

Oh, and the problem with "Just use BBEdit" is that it forces you to title 
and save docs in Finder, which is a poor fit for spitballing/note-booking 
and generally getting stuff down in writing that doesn't serve a specific 
purpose or project. Also (per discussion above) a clot of separate files is 
unwieldy on mobile devices.

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EBCDIC support in BBEdit

[Gé Weijers]

Hi,

I'm having some trouble figuring out which exact code page is being used by 
BBedit for the "Western (EBCDIC Latin-1)" character set.

Thanks,

Gé

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Re: Another Newbie GREP help request...

[Christopher Stone]

On 05/14/2018, at 22:15, Matthew London > wrote:
> PS.Grateful if someone can recommend a "GREP for non-programmers" written in 
> plain(er) English so I don't have to bother you very helpful people here.


Hey Matthew,

It takes a while to get good enough with regular expressions to manage anything 
but the basics without a hint or two, but don't let that worry you – Practice 
makes Progress.

It's been awhile, since I updated this – but all the links are current.

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Some Information on Learning Regular Expressions – by Christopher C. Stone
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Learning basic regular expressions is relatively easy.  Becoming really good 
with them takes dedication, a lot of practice, and some tutelage.

The BBEdit Manual devotes a whole chapter to regular expressions: Searching 
with Grep (currently chapter 8).  It's a reference rather than a tutorial, but 
it does explain at least briefly many of the fundamentals.

My cheat-sheet for BBEdit is up on Gist:

https://gist.github.com/ccstone/5385334 


BBEdit uses PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions), so it's a pretty decent 
if not complete reference.

Regex neophytes are better off starting with a book specifically written for 
beginners.

I have these books (in addition to a couple of tomes on Perl):

"Sams Teach Yourself Regular Expressions in 10 Minutes" by Ben Forta
"Beginning Regular Expressions" by Andrew Watt
"Regular Expressions Cookbook"  by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan
"Mastering Regular Expressions" by Jeffrey Friedl (Advanced)

There's a decent little utility available on the App-Store called 'Patterns' 
that live-updates as you create your pattern. ($2.99)

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/patterns-the-regex-app/id429449079?mt=12 


I've found it very handy to have live feedback when building a complex pattern 
and wish I'd had something like that when I started learning regex more than 20 
years ago.

Extracting a good working knowledge of regular expressions from the Internet is 
a serious chore.  There are many flavors of regex out there, such as Perl/PCRE, 
Java, Javascript, Ruby, Python, TCL...  They're all similar, but the 
differences can be very confusing and frustrating.

Nevertheless there are many useful online resources.  Here are a few:

http://www.agillo.net/regex-primer-part-1/ 

http://www.agillo.net/regex-primer-part-2/ 

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/regextutorial.aspx 

http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html 


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