Re: Clippings, options, auto-complete and keyboarding

[Oliver Boermans]

Hi Ted,

I understand, I too spent some time looking for an approach that was ever
so more slightly automagical. Interested to see what you come up with.

It is possible call a script to populate the text within BBEdit clippings:

 #script /Users/me/example/folder/Script.scpt#

Presumably this could open a dialog to present options before the clipping
is inserted.

Trouble was, I couldn’t see a mechanism to pass arguments to the script
upon execution. As a result every clipping would need it’s own script. This
makes the shortcuts BBEdit provides to edit and create clippings “on the
fly” less useful.

I went with requiring an additional shortcut to extract the options. This
had the possibly useful side effect of allowing the same mechanism to work
on any text selection – not just clipping contents.

Cheers
Ollie

—
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On 12 May 2015 at 18:19, Gustave Stresen-Reuter 
wrote:

> Thanks for sharing! Not quite what I'm looking for but definitely on the
> right track. Ideally, I'd like something that is triggered when the
> clipping is inserted so I can just keyboard navigate through a dialog
> setting the required parameters. If I ever get any free time (not likely,
> but one can always hope) I'll take what you've done and see if I can work
> it into my own workflow and share that.
>

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Re: Clippings, options, auto-complete and keyboarding

[Gustave Stresen-Reuter]

Oliver,

Thanks for sharing! Not quite what I'm looking for but definitely on the
right track. Ideally, I'd like something that is triggered when the
clipping is inserted so I can just keyboard navigate through a dialog
setting the required parameters. If I ever get any free time (not likely,
but one can always hope) I'll take what you've done and see if I can work
it into my own workflow and share that.

Thanks again!

Ted

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:52 AM Oliver Boermans  wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> I encountered the same issue and wrote some AppleScript to deal with it:
> https://github.com/ollicle/BBEdit-Extract-Placeholder
>
> Let me know if it works for you.
> Cheers
> Ollie
> —
> @ollicle
>
> On 12 May 2015 at 06:25, Christopher Stone 
> wrote:
>
>> On May 11, 2015, at 09:11, Brian Christiansen  wrote:
>>
>> When I'm using auto-complete with CSS, I get items like this:
>>
>> display:
>> <#none|inline|block|inline-block|list-item|run-in|compact|marker#>;
>>
>> Is there a way from the keyboard to select one of those options, that
>> isn't "highlight and delete everything that's not the option you want"?
>>
>> __
>>
>> Hey Brian,
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want, especially since I don't
>> do CSS.
>>
>> What I think I'm reading is that you want to be able to emplace the
>> clipping - then make a selection of the desired option via the keyboard -
>> and then remove the other options.
>>
>> What I've done is change the clipping text so that the options are
>> tokenized.
>>
>> You expand the clipping and  to the desired option - then you run
>> the AppleScript with a keyboard shortcut to remove the undesired text.
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> The Clipping:
>>
>> display:
>> @<#none#>|<#•inline•#>|<#•block•#>|<#inline-block#>|<#list-item#>|<#run-in#>|<#compact#>|<#marker#>@;
>>
>> * Items with bullets are reserved expansion-tokens in BBEdit.
>> * @ character marks beginning and end of replacement text.
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> tell *application* "BBEdit"
>>   tell front *text window*
>> set _sel to selection
>> set start_Line to *line* (get startLine of _sel)
>> set replaceText to *replace* "<#•?|•?#>" searchingString (_sel's
>> contents as *text*) using "" options {search mode:grep}
>> set replaceText to *replace* "\\@.+?\\@" searching in start_Line
>> using replaceText options {search mode:grep}
>> *select* *insertion point* after start_Line
>>   end tell
>> end tell
>>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Let me know if I've got this wrong, or something needs adjusting.
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>> Chris
>>
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Re: Clippings, options, auto-complete and keyboarding

[Oliver Boermans]

Hi Brian,

I encountered the same issue and wrote some AppleScript to deal with it:
https://github.com/ollicle/BBEdit-Extract-Placeholder

Let me know if it works for you.
Cheers
Ollie
—
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On 12 May 2015 at 06:25, Christopher Stone 
wrote:

> On May 11, 2015, at 09:11, Brian Christiansen  wrote:
>
> When I'm using auto-complete with CSS, I get items like this:
>
> display:
> <#none|inline|block|inline-block|list-item|run-in|compact|marker#>;
>
> Is there a way from the keyboard to select one of those options, that
> isn't "highlight and delete everything that's not the option you want"?
>
> __
>
> Hey Brian,
>
> I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want, especially since I don't
> do CSS.
>
> What I think I'm reading is that you want to be able to emplace the
> clipping - then make a selection of the desired option via the keyboard -
> and then remove the other options.
>
> What I've done is change the clipping text so that the options are
> tokenized.
>
> You expand the clipping and  to the desired option - then you run the
> AppleScript with a keyboard shortcut to remove the undesired text.
>
>
> ---
>
> The Clipping:
>
> display:
> @<#none#>|<#•inline•#>|<#•block•#>|<#inline-block#>|<#list-item#>|<#run-in#>|<#compact#>|<#marker#>@;
>
> * Items with bullets are reserved expansion-tokens in BBEdit.
> * @ character marks beginning and end of replacement text.
>
>
> ---
>
> tell *application* "BBEdit"
>   tell front *text window*
> set _sel to selection
> set start_Line to *line* (get startLine of _sel)
> set replaceText to *replace* "<#•?|•?#>" searchingString (_sel's
> contents as *text*) using "" options {search mode:grep}
> set replaceText to *replace* "\\@.+?\\@" searching in start_Line using
> replaceText options {search mode:grep}
> *select* *insertion point* after start_Line
>   end tell
> end tell
>
>
> ---
>
> Let me know if I've got this wrong, or something needs adjusting.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>
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Re: Clippings, options, auto-complete and keyboarding

[Christopher Stone]

On May 11, 2015, at 09:11, Brian Christiansen  wrote:
> When I'm using auto-complete with CSS, I get items like this:
> 
> display: <#none|inline|block|inline-block|list-item|run-in|compact|marker#>;
> 
> Is there a way from the keyboard to select one of those options, that isn't 
> "highlight and delete everything that's not the option you want"? 

__

Hey Brian,

I'm not sure I understand exactly what you want, especially since I don't do 
CSS.

What I think I'm reading is that you want to be able to emplace the clipping - 
then make a selection of the desired option via the keyboard - and then remove 
the other options.

What I've done is change the clipping text so that the options are tokenized.

You expand the clipping and  to the desired option - then you run the 
AppleScript with a keyboard shortcut to remove the undesired text.

---

The Clipping:

display: 
@<#none#>|<#•inline•#>|<#•block•#>|<#inline-block#>|<#list-item#>|<#run-in#>|<#compact#>|<#marker#>@;

* Items with bullets are reserved expansion-tokens in BBEdit.
* @ character marks beginning and end of replacement text.

---

tell application "BBEdit"
  tell front text window
set _sel to selection
set start_Line to line (get startLine of _sel)
set replaceText to replace "<#•?|•?#>" searchingString (_sel's contents as 
text) using "" options {search mode:grep}
set replaceText to replace "\\@.+?\\@" searching in start_Line using 
replaceText options {search mode:grep}
select insertion point after start_Line
  end tell
end tell

---

Let me know if I've got this wrong, or something needs adjusting.

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Re: Clippings, options, auto-complete and keyboarding

[Gustave Stresen-Reuter]

IMHO the ability to select one from a list of items during a clipping
insertion operation would be a wonderful feature. That said, you can wire
up your own via AppleScript. I don't recall the exact technique but there
are a few examples out there on the web. Here's a short and easily read
link with some ideas on how to do it:
http://books.google.es/books?id=Ud9WZg-m87EC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&dq=create+a+custom+dialog+applescript&source=bl&ots=HOwxy-dixl&sig=9IreOrdzmaqTthyQeYwBqGYFwwc&hl=en&ei=r3M-SrCTMcOMjAeNjrQP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=create%20a%20custom%20dialog%20applescript&f=false

Good luck and let us know what you come up with.

Ted

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:25 PM Brian Christiansen 
wrote:

> When I'm using auto-complete with CSS, I get items like this:
>
> display:
> <#none|inline|block|inline-block|list-item|run-in|compact|marker#>;
>
> Is there a way from the keyboard to select one of those options, that
> isn't "highlight and delete everything that's not the option you want"? I
> feel like I'm missing something. For the record, I don't know if this is
> from a built-in auto-complete lib, or a user-contributed clippings library.
> I didn't see anything in the clippings chapter of the manual that spelled
> out a non-mouse way of selecting one of the options.
>
> I feel like I could be making more use of the clippings feature,
> especially from the keyboard. Any additional tips beyond answering this
> query, or "you can assign shortcuts to specific clippings" (which I do) are
> welcome.
>
> I understand when I get options like this:
>
> margin: <#top#> <#right#> <#bottom#> <#left#>;
>
> That I can tab to each place holder and overwrite a value. That's great.
> That's the type of interaction I would like from the top sample. If there
> were a way of selecting one of those options (top sample) from the keyboard
> after an auto-complete, I would absolutely put that to work with a number
> of custom clippings.
>
> Thanks, all.
>
> ~brian
>
> @briandigital
>
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Clippings, options, auto-complete and keyboarding

[Brian Christiansen]

When I'm using auto-complete with CSS, I get items like this:

display: <#none|inline|block|inline-block|list-item|run-in|compact|marker#>;

Is there a way from the keyboard to select one of those options, that isn't 
"highlight and delete everything that's not the option you want"? I feel 
like I'm missing something. For the record, I don't know if this is from a 
built-in auto-complete lib, or a user-contributed clippings library. I 
didn't see anything in the clippings chapter of the manual that spelled out 
a non-mouse way of selecting one of the options.

I feel like I could be making more use of the clippings feature, especially 
from the keyboard. Any additional tips beyond answering this query, or "you 
can assign shortcuts to specific clippings" (which I do) are welcome.

I understand when I get options like this:

margin: <#top#> <#right#> <#bottom#> <#left#>;

That I can tab to each place holder and overwrite a value. That's great. 
That's the type of interaction I would like from the top sample. If there 
were a way of selecting one of those options (top sample) from the keyboard 
after an auto-complete, I would absolutely put that to work with a number 
of custom clippings.

Thanks, all.

~brian

@briandigital

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