collaborative editing

2019-04-19 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
I was wondering about ways to do collaborative editing in BBEdit, the way SubEthaEdit does it. I'm trying things that seem to work under emacs and one of the extensions seems to accept the subethaedit protocol too (http://rudel.sourceforge.net/compatibility.html) Jean-Christophe Helary --

Re: How to get truncated output from RegEx search

2019-04-19 Thread Christopher Stone
On 04/19/2019, at 07:53, Gustave Stresen-Reuter mailto:tedmaster...@gmail.com>> wrote: > The problem here, though, is that the search results are sent to a search > results window. Is there any way to recreate the behavior of the grep command > above (the output is just the matching data with no

Re: "tags" file for Text Completion

2019-04-19 Thread Scott in Pollock
On Friday, April 19, 2019 at 8:29:10 AM UTC-7, Rich Siegel wrote: > > > If you aren't too proud to use Markdown(*), you can make this > work as follows: Thanks Rich! I am not sure what 0;" kind:d means, but it is working great. And I can whuff up my own CLM to tie to a file like this for the t

Re: "tags" file for Text Completion

2019-04-19 Thread Scott in Pollock
On Friday, April 19, 2019 at 8:09:05 AM UTC-7, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > > May I ask how large this set of names is? 1480 and counting. I was concerned about having this many clippings lying around so that is why I started looking at a tags file. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion

Re: "tags" file for Text Completion

2019-04-19 Thread Patrick Woolsey
On 4/17/19 at 5:08 AM, scottinpoll...@gmail.com (Scott in Pollock) wrote: > Would someone be so kind as to offer up a simple example of a "tags" file > for text completion with Text File? I have been using clippings for this > but have a large group of proper names that would be much more conven

Re: "tags" file for Text Completion

2019-04-19 Thread Patrick Woolsey
On 4/19/19 at 9:06 AM, list.bbe...@munkynet.org (Sam Hathaway) wrote: I wonder if BBEdit doesn’t read tags files for “Text File” because it’s not a programming language? That is indeed the case; there is no tag format nor any tags generator for human language content (or arbitrary plain tex

Re: How to get truncated output from RegEx search

2019-04-19 Thread Rich Siegel
On 4/19/19 at 8:53 AM, tedmaster...@gmail.com (Gustave Stresen-Reuter) wrote: The problem here, though, is that the search results are sent to a search results window. Is there any way to recreate the behavior of the grep command above (the output is just the matching data with no filename, lin

Re: How to get truncated output from RegEx search

2019-04-19 Thread Sam Hathaway
I know this isn’t exactly what you’re asking about, but I wanted to suggest using a tool that’s designed to work with XML rather than with line-oriented text. One such tool is [xml_grep2](https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/App-xml_grep2/bin/xml_grep2). Installing it on macOS is a little i

Re: "tags" file for Text Completion

2019-04-19 Thread Sam Hathaway
I wonder if BBEdit doesn’t read tags files for “Text File” because it’s not a programming language? Maybe Rich or Patrick can ring in. Or tell us if there’s another way to bulk-add completions. Good luck! -sam On 19 Apr 2019, at 8:59, Scott in Pollock wrote: On Thursday, April 18, 2019 at

Re: "tags" file for Text Completion

2019-04-19 Thread Scott in Pollock
On Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 4:16:43 PM UTC-7, Sam Hathaway wrote: > > and then copy the resulting tags file to wherever it is that BBEdit wants > it. > Hmmm the file seems to have been created successfully, but I can't get it to work. BBEdit says "the Completion Data folder contains tag

How to get truncated output from RegEx search

2019-04-19 Thread Gustave Stresen-Reuter
Hi, Given I've got dozens of folders with more than 1GB of XML documents in them, I'm doing the following grep search from the command line: grep -h -o -R -E '(\{|\[)\s*[a-z]+\s*([0-9]+)\s*(\|.+?)?(\}|\])' * | bbedit I'm then removing duplicates and sorting. This gives me a very nice list of the