Collections
Curiosity point: in a project window, there's an Add Collection... command which adds a little box icon to your project window you can add files and folders to. I can't actually find an explanation of what collections are meant to be used for in the BBEdit manual. There's no section about them, and in fact they're barely mentioned at all -- in Creating Files and Folders we're told you can create a file or folder within the initially selected collection (if any), and in Script Access to Project Contents we're told you can recurse to explore the items contained within folders or collections... and as near as I can tell, that's it. I'm just curious what the use case for collections is supposed to be. I have files that I want to keep outside my project root in an in-progress folder, and I can add that to a collection -- but I can also just add it to the project with Add Items... and save a step of indirection. Is there something I'm missing? (And is this perhaps something that should be added to the manual?) - Watts -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
Re: Collections
On 8/7/14 at 3:33 PM, lay...@gmail.com (Watts Martin) wrote: Curiosity point: in a project window, there's an Add Collection... command which adds a little box icon to your project window you can add files and folders to. [...] That's exactly what a collection is :-), i.e. a collection is a visual navigation aid which allows you to group items (files and folders) within the file list independent of their positions on disk. So, if this helps, I'll be happy to add same to the next turn of the manual... :-) Regards, Patrick Woolsey == Bare Bones Software, Inc. http://www.barebones.com/ -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
Re: Collections
Okay, thanks. Maybe just a sentence or two in the manual. It's discoverable, but very slightly mysterious. :) On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Patrick Woolsey pwool...@barebones.com wrote: On 8/7/14 at 3:33 PM, lay...@gmail.com (Watts Martin) wrote: Curiosity point: in a project window, there's an Add Collection... command which adds a little box icon to your project window you can add files and folders to. [...] That's exactly what a collection is :-), i.e. a collection is a visual navigation aid which allows you to group items (files and folders) within the file list independent of their positions on disk. So, if this helps, I'll be happy to add same to the next turn of the manual... :-) Regards, Patrick Woolsey == Bare Bones Software, Inc. http://www.barebones.com/ -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
Re: Collections
thanks for asking. That's real useful and I hadn't noticed it... On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Watts Martin lay...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, thanks. Maybe just a sentence or two in the manual. It's discoverable, but very slightly mysterious. :) On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Patrick Woolsey pwool...@barebones.com wrote: On 8/7/14 at 3:33 PM, lay...@gmail.com (Watts Martin) wrote: Curiosity point: in a project window, there's an Add Collection... command which adds a little box icon to your project window you can add files and folders to. [...] That's exactly what a collection is :-), i.e. a collection is a visual navigation aid which allows you to group items (files and folders) within the file list independent of their positions on disk. So, if this helps, I'll be happy to add same to the next turn of the manual... :-) Regards, Patrick Woolsey == Bare Bones Software, Inc. http://www.barebones.com/ -- -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com.
Re: project's folders within collections no longer open after migration to 10.0
Turns out that redragging the folders to the collections is only a temporary fix. After the project is closed and reopened, the bug reappears, and the folders no longer. No response from BBEdit support for a week on this. I don't know if I'm alone on this, but I'd advise others to avoid migrating projects from 9.x to 10.0 until this is addressed. -C On Jul 27, 4:50 pm, combi vann.mil...@gmail.com wrote: I migrated a BBEdit project from 9.x to 10.0. Now, in the project sidebar, folders that live within a collection no longer expand and reveal the files within them. This is most frustrating! I have to redrag each folder back to the correct collection, and delete the old (non working) folder, to fix it. Rather tedious. Any ideas? Thanks, -C P.S. I checked the file filter (magnifier button) at the bottom of the project sidebar, and it's not the problem. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
project's folders within collections no longer open after migration to 10.0
I migrated a BBEdit project from 9.x to 10.0. Now, in the project sidebar, folders that live within a collection no longer expand and reveal the files within them. This is most frustrating! I have to redrag each folder back to the correct collection, and delete the old (non working) folder, to fix it. Rather tedious. Any ideas? Thanks, -C P.S. I checked the file filter (magnifier button) at the bottom of the project sidebar, and it's not the problem. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
