Re: Release Roadmap

2014-08-28 Thread Bill Rowe
On 8/28/14 at 1:16 PM, ryent...@gmail.com (Rick Yentzer) wrote: I was curious to know if there was a BBEdit roadmap that was available to users? Unless Barebones changes long standing policy unexpectedly, their plans for any software they provide are not available to users. -- This is the B

Re: Feature Request: Elastic Tab Stops

2014-05-05 Thread Bill Rowe
On 5/5/14 at 6:56 AM, ryent...@gmail.com (Rick Yentzer) wrote: It would be nice to use a system similar to Jetbrains where users can vote on submitted feature requests. It wouldn't make any difference. Having such a system would only make a difference if the team at Bare Bones implemented fea

Re: Feature Request: Elastic Tab Stops

2014-05-02 Thread Bill Rowe
On 5/2/14 at 6:55 AM, bepor...@gmail.com (Brian Porter) wrote: but the venn diagram of (BBEdit's features) and (Brian's preferences) may be starting to diverge. The troubling part is that there's nothing I can do about that but post this kind of feature request here and hope enough other people

Re: BBEdit request

2014-01-02 Thread Bill Rowe
On 1/2/14 at 5:30 PM, ms...@podiuminternational.org (Marek Stepanek) wrote: This is a little bit off-topic: Every new year I am cleaning up my Thunderbird email accounts and every year I have the same problem cleaning up the BBEdit User Group. I would kindly ask the group administrator, to pu

Re: BBEdit 9.6

2010-10-27 Thread Bill Rowe
On 10/26/10 at 11:30 PM, rar...@banet.net (Robert A. Rosenberg) wrote: At 20:48 -0400 on 10/26/2010, Gabriel Roth wrote about Re: BBEdit 9.6: I just noticed the dynamic credit for unindicted co-conspirators. Oh, my name's in there! I wonder what I did? Cool. Not to burst your bubble but

Re: Hard Wrap in Text Factories?

2010-07-11 Thread Bill Rowe
On 7/10/10 at 9:21 PM, dholsc...@gmail.com (Doug) wrote: I have a boat load of text files that need formatting, and I've made a Text Factory that does everything but one last thing. I don't have the option to do a Hard Wrap on a text file at n (say 70) characters, at least not within a Text Fact

Re: Flip a Table

2010-07-05 Thread Bill Rowe
On 7/5/10 at 10:37 AM, wmichel...@gmail.com (Warren Michelsen) wrote: I have tables containing data in reverse chronological order. I'd like it to be chronological so I'm thinking I can just move the table rows around. Seems like it would require a separate scratch file to hold the re-ordered

Re: Repost - Problem using replace all option in Find & Replace

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Rowe
On 6/18/10 at 2:45 PM, krem...@kreme.com (LuKreme) wrote: On 18-Jun-2010, at 09:15, Bill Rowe wrote: On 6/17/10 at 8:58 PM, kilowattra...@gmail.com (Keith) wrote: If I create a search using grep like this (.*) and use replace of: mv \1 \1.pine BBEDIT 9.5 replaces all strings

Re: Repost - Problem using replace all option in Find & Replace

2010-06-18 Thread Bill Rowe
On 6/17/10 at 8:58 PM, kilowattra...@gmail.com (Keith) wrote: If I create a search using grep like this (.*) and use replace of:  mv \1 \1.pine BBEDIT 9.5 replaces all strings numerous times. foo\r becomes mv foo foo.pine foo.pine.pine\r or similar How do I prevent replace all

Re: Sorting Titles with sort lines & regex

2010-05-25 Thread Bill Rowe
On 5/25/10 at 5:54 PM, krem...@kreme.com (LuKreme) wrote: On 25-May-2010, at 13:40, Ronald J Kimball wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:57:53PM -0600, LuKreme wrote: OK, trying to sort a file of movie titles. This is where I got to: Sort using pattern: ^(the|A|An|\d+)?\.?\s+?(.*)$ Yo

Re: Basic grep question

2010-05-22 Thread Bill Rowe
On 5/22/10 at 12:15 PM, gabe.r...@gmail.com (Gabriel Roth) wrote: Is there a grep special character that matches any character including a line break? I find myself using (\s|\S) and suspect that there must be a shorter way. From the grep reference in BBEdit Help menu s -- By default, the mag

Re: Upgraded from 8.72 to 9.5 and have a question about "search from top"

2010-04-28 Thread Bill Rowe
On 4/28/10 at 5:53 PM, dougler...@gmail.com (douglerner) wrote: I just upgraded from BBEdit 8.72 to BBEdit 9.5. In the new search, I notice I can't do the CMD+T to force the search to start from the top of the file anymore. Is there a way to do that? I know about the wrap option, but th

Re: Snow Leopard - no more 'open in > BBEdit' Menu in Finder Submenus for Folders?

2009-10-16 Thread Bill Rowe
On 10/16/09 at 12:56 AM, harald.krems...@gmail.com (hkrems) wrote: >thank you - sorry to read that SGI has been discontinued. enabling >'open file' as you described works now. enabling "Open File in Super >Get Info" has no effect? Hmmm... On my system when I control click on an item in Path Fin

Re: Can't open AppleScript dictionary

2009-10-09 Thread Bill Rowe
On 10/9/09 at 12:10 PM, n...@inik.net (Nik) wrote: >Opening the AppleScript dictionary does nothing. If I try multiple >times, I'll sometimes get a blank dictionary window. >I'm running the latest version of BBEdit on Snow Leopard. This is a known bug. For a work around you can use ASDictionary

Re: Keeping BBEdit awake

2009-09-20 Thread Bill Rowe
On 9/20/09 at 10:08 PM, johndelac...@gmail.com (John Delacour) wrote: >With varying frequency I copy text from a browser and paste it into >a BBEdit document. If I leave BBEdit idle for too long, it takes >several seconds for the application to reawake and these dalys add >up to an annoyance. >

Re: Numbering enumerations - automating with BBEdit?

2009-09-15 Thread Bill Rowe
On 9/15/09 at 3:51 AM, gra...@gnelson.demon.co.uk (Graham Nelson) wrote: >BBEdit is extensible in so many ways that I suspect this is >possible, but have no idea how to go about it. >What I'm looking for is a menu option which work work rather like >the Sort Lines option - you select a set of li

Re: Trim grep result to certain characters

2009-09-07 Thread Bill Rowe
On 9/7/09 at 4:52 AM, xbsja...@gmail.com (xbsjason) wrote: >I have a file of names and I want to trim each of them to be no more >than X number of characters, say 20. How can I do this the most >efficient way using GREP or other methods that can do this quickly >for the list? Using grep, search

Re: Find and Replace invisible characters

2009-09-06 Thread Bill Rowe
On 9/5/09 at 8:22 PM, mpor...@lisco.com (doctorvandermast) wrote: >I want to find and replace null characters in a text file with >carriage returns. Can BBEdit or TextWrangler do this? BBEdit can do this. In the find dialog, make sure the Grep box is checked. Use \x00 as the search pattern and

Re: Adding a header row

2009-08-11 Thread Bill Rowe
On 8/11/09 at 4:08 PM, dplistacco...@gmail.com (dp) wrote: >I would like to add the same header row to all of the files in a >folder. I'm attempting a multi-file search and replace. I need a >grep pattern that will find the entire contents of any file. Then, >the replacement pattern could be my h

Re: Multi file search question

2009-07-21 Thread Bill Rowe
On 7/20/09 at 7:03 AM, drftor...@mac.com (drftorres) wrote: >I have more than 300 html files in which the heading is almost >identical. What I would like to do is delete by line number. >Example: I would like to chose all files and delete from line 1 >through line 37. Here is one way to do this.

Re: replacing items in sequential list with items from a different list

2009-06-11 Thread Bill Rowe
On 6/11/09 at 12:45 PM, j...@johnwillslloyd.com (JohnL) wrote: >There oughta be a way to accomplish this task: >I want to turn the numerals in these lines >>lorem ipso 240 >>nother ipso 241 >>mas ipsos 242 >> ... >>fini ipsos 26x >into new numbers so that this is the result >>lorem ipso 487 >

Re: Open in a new window

2009-04-26 Thread Bill Rowe
On 4/26/09 at 10:15 PM, most...@gmail.com (Jan Erik Moström) wrote: >Is there some way of issuing the "Open in a new window" command >without having the drawer open? (I can find any way in the manual or >otherwise) cmd-shift-n will create a new blank window --~--~-~--~~---