Re: Any hope for support for scripts in other languages?

[Jim Correia]

On Aug 28, 2008, at 6:58 PM, rowen wrote:

> A feature I'd really like to see is the ability to write scripts in
> any standard language (e.g. Python or Perl) that can modify the
> current selection by reading it from standard output and writing the
> modified version to standard output. If no text is selected then
> transform the entire document.

Rowen,

A #! (nee Unix) filter solves this need exactly.

The only difference is that the selection is actually passed to the  
script in a temporary file (first argument in ARGV.)

Look at the examples which ship with BBEdit. In the menubar...

#! -> Unix Filters -> ...

Jim


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Any hope for support for scripts in other languages?

[rowen]

A feature I'd really like to see is the ability to write scripts in
any standard language (e.g. Python or Perl) that can modify the
current selection by reading it from standard output and writing the
modified version to standard output. If no text is selected then
transform the entire document.

Obviously such scripts could not do everything that AppleScript can
do, but it would handle a lot of useful cases and it would allow the
user to write scripts in a familiar language.

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