Automation question

[Christian Boyce]

I have a BBEdit document looking something like this:

{Tag_A}
Some text, could be multiple sentences, multiple paragraphs.
{/Tag_A}

Some other text here

{Tag_B}
More text here. Could be multiple sentences, multiple paragraphs, as above.
{/Tag_B}

{Tag_A}
Some text, could be multiple sentences, multiple paragraphs.
{/Tag_A}

Some other text here

{Tag_B}
More text here. Could be multiple sentences, multiple paragraphs, as above.
{/Tag_B}

Etc.

I have two AppleScripts which currently work on whatever text it selected. For 
purposes of this discussion let's say I have Script A which applies some custom 
capitalization, and Script B that wraps certain words in  
tags. 

The scripts work great as long as I select, by hand, the text I want to work 
with. At the end of the script, after I have done the operations I want to do, 
I set the selection to the newly computed text. 

The way it SEEMS to work is the selected text stays selected the whole time, 
and at the very end I am writing into the selection. It is as if I pasted a 
result into a selection— the selected text is replaced with what I pasted.

What I'm trying to do is automate the selections. That is, in the example 
above, I want to (somehow) automatically select everything between the first 
set of {Tag_A}{/Tag_A} tags, and run Script A on it. Then I want to (somehow) 
automatically select everything between the first {Tag_B}{/Tag_B} tags, and run 
Script B. Then I want to select the text between the next set of A tags and run 
Script A, and then select the text between the next set of B tags and run 
Script B, and so on.

Any suggestions? What I'm describing is sort of an invisible hand that makes 
the selections for me. There might be a better way to do it so I am open to 
suggestions!

I don't have any trouble with the Scripts A and B. Those are fine. What I need 
is a way to tell BBEdit to select the right chunks of text to apply these 
scripts to.

THANK YOU—

Christian Boyce

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Pipe list of files into new bbprojectd

[Charlie Garrison]

Good evening,

I've got a custom grep/ls script which outputs a list of matching files, 
which I want to use as contents of a new project. The list is quite long 
(too long to pass as command args), so using `bbedit --project` won't 
work. Is there some other way to pipe a list of file paths to `bbedit` 
so they become items in the project?


What I really want is a way to Multi-File Search all the files. I can do 
it using `bbfind` but I prefer something within BBEdit UI. So I thought 
about creating a project with all the files, and I can use that as 
'search in' target in search dialog.


The count of files to search is over 10,000.
Using `bbedit --project` prints error `-bash: /usr/local/bin/bbedit: 
Argument list too long`


-cng

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Charlie Garrison   
Garrison Computer Services  
PO Box 380
Tumbarumba NSW 2653  Australia

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