Re: trying to restore default keyboard focus

Thanks for the quick reply. I somehow managed to overlook "Allow Keyboard Focus" in "Sidebar" which solves my issue. Mark On Saturday, October 12, 2024 at 5:03:10 PM UTC-7 Rich Siegel wrote: > On 12 Oct 2024, at 19:45, Mark Bowron wrote: > > > To click a f

trying to restore default keyboard focus

To click a filename in the sidebar and start typing immediately (instead of clicking again in the editor), I tried defaults write com.barebones.bbedit ProjectsListCanAcquireKeyboardFocus -bool NO and got zsh: command not found: ProjectsListCanAcquireKeyboardFocus Do I need to navigate to a sp

shortcut for cutting a line?

Over the years I have grown used to using ctrl-k to cut a line of text in the Pico editor. Is there an equivalenk shortcut for BBedit? Or is there a way I can combine [command-shift-right arrow] + [command x] Thank you. Also, after years of using the free version I finally had work buy me the

Toggle Insert/Overwrite Mode in BBEdit

edure, the highlighted text is replaced by the *. How do I toggle between these two states? Yours, Mark -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bb

Re: Can't get CharGPT to work on v15

CAn anyone get it to work with a model higher than GPT-3? I don't seem able to. On Friday 12 January 2024 at 00:26:57 UTC+1 Jesse Shanks wrote: > Function - return works as well > > On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 6:32:42 AM UTC-8 Rich Siegel wrote: > >> On 11 Jan 2024, at 8:44, Arthur Werry wr

Re: Text Factory Equivalent for BBEdit: Text: Remove Line Breaks?

Replace window of BBEdit. However, it is much quicker to string them together in one Text Factory. I appreciate the help! Yours, Mark On 24 May 2023, at 18:42, Christopher Stone wrote: On May 24, 2023, at 07:16, Mark Mayberry wrote: However, I cannot figure out which Text Factory command is

Re: Text Factory Equivalent for BBEdit: Text: Remove Line Breaks?

with text is a pleasant experience once again. Thanks for a great product. I’m sorry it took me so long to discover BBEdit. Happy 30th anniversary! Yours, Mark On 24 May 2023, at 16:09, Rich Siegel wrote: > On 24 May 2023, at 17:06, Mark Mayberry wrote: > >> I know this is a DUM

Re: Markdown processor settings for project

Kevin, I hope you are successful in streamlining the process because what you describe would be helpful to me also! Yours, Mark On 24 May 2023, at 14:43, KevinC wrote: Mark, Thank you very much for your helpful script. I've been using a similar setup with a makefile that I call fro

Re: Markdown processor settings for project

"back-n-forth" process but I usually get a properly formatted slide show after a few attempts. After each needed change, I saved the MD files in BBEdit, and re-run the terminal command, and then hit reload page in Safari. Yours, Mark #!/bin/bash echo "Starting Create Slideshow s

Re: Use Keyboard Maestro (KM) to Automate BBEdit Menu Steps

Dear Christopher, Thank you! I followed your instructions and it works like a charm! Yours, Mark On 22 May 2023, at 10:36, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote: If you add the text factory as a Text Filter then you can assign it a keyboard shortcut. Put it in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text

Re: Use Keyboard Maestro (KM) to Automate BBEdit Menu Steps

Dear Kaveh, YES! Thank you! I tried the same procedure in Text Factory and it worked PERFECTLY! Quick question: Is it possible to set up a shortcut keystroke in BBEdit that (when pressed) will run my newly created TextFactory? Yours, Mark On 22 May 2023, at 10:20, Kaveh Bazargan wrote

Re: Use Keyboard Maestro (KM) to Automate BBEdit Menu Steps

Dear Rich, Thanks! I have not yet explored “Text Factory” but will give it a whirl. Since we are talking about an internal BBEdit set of keystrokes, it might be better to stay “in house.” Yours, Mark On 22 May 2023, at 9:10, Rich Siegel wrote: > On 22 May 2023, at 10:04, Mark Maybe

BBEdit really laggy in MacOS Ventura

Just a heads-up for anyone thinking about installing the Developer Preview of Ventura—BBEdit is running really slowly. Obviously don't expect BareBones to rush out and fix it since it may be an OS bug that Apple will fix. Just wanted users to be aware that an issue exists. -- This is the BBEd

Change background for Notes

I really appreciate the new Notes feature. I wish there were a way to change the background color for notes so that it is easy to tell at a glance when I'm working in a notes window vs. a regular text window. Maybe there is a way to do this and I just haven't figured it out yet? Mark

Feature request: switch between projects in the same window

I make heavy use of BBEdit projects, organizing each source code repository I'm working on into separate projects. (My company has many such repos.) I'd like to use them with macOS' Split View feature, splitting my screen with a project and a terminal

Re: Newbie Seeking Advice

r, no = (equals sign) When the transform is complete, the TRNAMT values should be of opposite signs (as if they were multiplied by -1) Thanks for your help. Mark On Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 2:42:43 PM UTC-5, David G Wagner wrote: > > What do the currency numbers look like? I mean is the

Newbie Seeking Advice

y appreciated. BBEdit is clearly overkill for my problem, but for 50-odd bucks it seems worthwhile to me to kill this aggravation. My environment: MacOS High Sierra (10.13.6) running on a MacBook Pro early 2011 (to be upgraded this summer to Catalina on a MacBook Pro 16"). Thanks again.

Clippings Shortcuts?

As is still shown in the user manual, there used to be a toolbar in the clippings view, but that's not present now. Is there any way to assign keys to clippings other than system preferences? -- Mark Damon Hughes -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a fe

Can this be done without writing a script? (matching and replacing)

Hi, I'm fine tuning some Dokuwiki markdown. In the body of the text there are references to footnotes that look like this: Blah blah blah [12] And at the end of the document there's a footnote that looks like this: 12 Crassus and Antonius.\\ That's all fine and it works, but it would be even

Re: Converting Google Keep to OrgMode

search for from time to time. Thanks for your help. On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 1:12 AM Roland Küffner wrote: > Hi Mark, > > assuming that your snippet is actually the complete content of the file, > this should work > > search: > (?s)\A([^\n]+)\n*(.+) > > replace: > *\2\

Converting Google Keep to OrgMode

So I used Pandoc to convert about 300 Google Keep checklists into orgmode, to use with Orgzly on my Android phone. A converted file looks like this: May 11, 2018, 3:30:04 AM Monday stuff - ☐ Just get it done. Workmanlike. - ☐ 3030 notes - ☐ Prioritize reading - ☑ See The Last Jedi - ☑ Clean de

Re: Application Support (Cloud vs: Local Server)

This might pose some problems for people who use Dropbox at the “basic” level, as the author of this article explains. That certainly is not the fault of BBEdit, only a limitation from the people who run Dropbox.

Fwd: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

I am incredibly rusty at shell scripts, but shouldn’t you be able to use the wc (word count) utility to find the number of lines? If so, the script could use ‘wc -l’ to check the number of lines, and spit its output to ‘wc -m’, which should count the number of characters in that output. Store t

Re: Converting plaintext to Markdown in BBedit

7;m assuming that it's not required you do it by hand using BBEdit. > > - Steve > > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 1:51 PM Mark C. wrote: > > > > I have to reformat a bunch of texts into the Dokuwiki syntax, which is > basically a version of Markdown. I'm wonderin

Converting plaintext to Markdown in BBedit

I have to reformat a bunch of texts into the Dokuwiki syntax, which is basically a version of Markdown. I'm wondering what the smartest way would be to do that using BBedit. Thanks for your suggestions. Here is a sample of the Dokuwiki syntax: https://www.dokuwiki.org/cheatsheet *FORMATTING*

Re: Delete space at the beginning of line

If it’s exactly three, Have you tried a carat (^) followed by three spaces as your regex: ‘^ ' to find, and an empty box for the replace? If it’s an arbitrary number of spaces, try the carat, a space, and a + to indicate any number of the same character? ‘^ +’ Note that you don’t include th

Re: Grep question

Try this: \[\d\d\:\d\d] And leave the replacement area blank. > On Oct 8, 2018, at 2:22 PM, Cory Robertson wrote: > > I would like to find all instances of [2:52 PM] (but with any time in the > brackets) and delete them. > > I have so far figured out using \[*\] seems to find them

Re: Find in entire document

If you tick the “Wrap Around” box at the bottom of the dialog box, the search will go from where your cursor is to the end of the document, and then from the beginning of the document back to where your cursor is. > On Jul 19, 2018, at 11:47 AM, friendlygiraffe > wrote: > > Hi, when I do a

Columns

just support MultiMarkdown | delimiters, but I'd settle for any simple regex transform. -- Mark Damon Hughes -- 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 postin

Re: Tidy

You could try: #!/bin/bash tidy -clean -indent -utf8 2>/dev/null As you see from this page, the 2> should redirect stderr: https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide//dev/null_discards_unwanted_output > On Feb 12,

Re: Where are unsaved files held?

r application data. > > Rick Gordon > > ---- > On January 4, 2018 at 2:16:24 PM [-0800], > Mark Mcleod wrote in an email entitled > "Re: Where are unsaved files held?": >> Look under >> >> /Users//Library/BBEdit/Auto-Save Recovery/Data >>

Re: Where are unsaved files held?

Look under /Users//Library/BBEdit/Auto-Save Recovery/Data The filenames are cryptic but you should find the data that you need in the files. > On Jan 4, 2018, at 8:05 AM, David Branner > wrote: > > Files that the user has not actively saved are nonetheless re

Re: Are there any special features about this code editor?

ith a bunch of plugins is about as good as BBEdit for complex code and regex work, but it's unusable on big files, can slow down to a dead crawl, the syntax coloring can die and need a reload, and it's generally flaky, whereas BBEdit keeps up and keeps working. It's the Terminator

Re: Filter to reverse order of lines

t sys with sys.stdin as f: lines = f.readlines() lines.reverse() for l in lines: sys.stdout.write(l) sys.stdout.flush() -- Mark Damon Hughes -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a pr

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 12.0.2 (400035) pre-release

text >document at startup when the "New text document" application >preference was set, even in situations when non-text documents >had already been opened. Looks good, my bugs are dead! -- Mark Damon Hughes -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group.

Search and replace hard returns within short lines.

So I'm cleaning up a text file that was converted from a PDF file. One of the problems is that each line break is a hard return. I'd like to replace those hard returns. However, at the end of each paragraph, there is also a hard return, so replacing the hard returns will remove all paragraph fo

Re: Functional (and Recent) Python Linter for BBEdit?

On Monday, May 23, 2016 at 3:01:45 PM UTC-5, Rich Siegel wrote: > > > Flake8 support is built in to 11.6, so if you have flake8 > installed, that is probably worth a try. > > R. > -- > Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. > > < > http://w

Disabling Search/Find Dialog from showing up on all desktops

Currently with BBEdit 11 the Search and Find dialogs show up on all desktops. Is there a way to configure this so the windows only show up where the app is active? -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email

Re: save dialog higher than window

I have that issue, I'm happy to hear that it's already fixed, when will the update be released? The current BBEdit version is 11.0.1, I usually keep to the release versions. MH On Friday, December 5, 2014 4:06:49 PM UTC+1, François Schiettecatte wrote: > > Something very similar to this was fix

Re: How to open from SFTP Server via SOCKS proxy

Wildcards can also be used in the config file, so if you routinely connect to more than one server behind the firewall, you can do *.mywork.com instead of listing each one individually. Mark On Thursday, April 3, 2014 10:20:25 AM UTC+1, Mark wrote: > > Hi there, > > I'm wondering

How to open from SFTP Server via SOCKS proxy

hich are usually inaccessible from home), I use the following command: > ssh -o ProxyCommand='nc -x localhost:8080 %h %p' > remote-u...@server.mywork.com > Is there any way I can connect to servers via SOCKS proxy within BBEdit? Thanks Mark -- This is the BBEdit Talk pub

Re: BBEdit No Longer Opens Files in Transmit FTP

It's happening to me as well. Sent a bug report to Panic, no reply yet. Makes sense that it's due to an OS change.. I think it was the 10.8.2 supplemental update since this combo worked flawlessly for so long. In the interm I have resorted to Transmit and Textwrangler combo, that works fine.

Re: Selecting entire tags

9 jul 2012 kl. 19.13 skrev Fletcher Sandbeck: > On Jul 9, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Mark wrote: > >> Hm, I don't think it does. I'm not using Balance tags or anything like that. >> Maybe I should clarify that I'm only trying to select the *start* tag >> (usua

Re: Selecting entire tags

9 jul 2012 kl. 18.30 skrev Roland Küffner: > > Am 09.07.2012 um 9, 17:25 schrieb Mark: > >> Hello, I am sure there is a simple answer to this. In earlier versions of >> BBEdit, when you double-clicked just in front of a tag, the whole tag was >> selected, includ

Selecting entire tags

Hello, I am sure there is a simple answer to this. In earlier versions of BBEdit, when you double-clicked just in front of a tag, the whole tag was selected, including the brackets. Now (I am currently at 10.1.2 under MacOS 10.6.8) I can't seem to find a way to select the whole thing by double-

Happy Birthday

Congratulations to the company and it's team! You've produce a wonderful, enduring, useful and well-built, quality product. I look forward to the next 20 years. Best wishes, Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion gr

Re: New to coding, should I buy BBEdit?

Janec3, Your best bet is to download other editors and test for yourself, as BBEdit is pretty awesome, I use another editor (still attached to TextMate 1.x) along side BBEdit to get the job done. BBEdit does certain things that I couldn't live without, that other editors either don't do natively o

Re: Can any AppleScript gurus help? Script to get filename of active dialog

Thanks for your help, folks — I'm a happy man. :D — Mark On Mar 9, 11:26 pm, John Delacour wrote: > At 19:23 -0700 9/3/12, LuKreme wrote: > > >On 09 Mar 2012, at 09:21 , John Delacour wrote: > > >  > At 06:55 -0700 9/3/12, LuKreme wrote: > >  >> > can

Can any AppleScript gurus help? Script to get filename of active dialog

good opportunity to understand AppleScript. :P Thanks in advance, universe; — Mark -- 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,

Re: Digest for bbedit@googlegroups.com - 9 Messages in 4 Topics

), so you are left on your own, still shocked BB's left that out, thought core PHP works fine. BTW I wrote a jQuery clippings for 1.7, it's not 100% but close enough to get what you need: https://github.com/ipaintcode/BBEdit-Clippings-jQuery GL! -- Mark Learst Sent wit

Re: Multi-File Search for Hexadecimal String

>On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 06:28:07PM -0800, Mark wrote: >> I'm not a search expert and I would be grateful for any help this list >> can offer. >> >> I have a website that is infected with malware that was injected into >> javascript files. I'm

Multi-File Search for Hexadecimal String

I'm not a search expert and I would be grateful for any help this list can offer. I have a website that is infected with malware that was injected into javascript files. I'm trying to use BBedit to find and remove the offending code. The code contains some hexadecimal characters which can be found

Re: Html files issue

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

Just released an updated jQuery clippings (based on 1.7)

Just released a jQuery clippings (based on 1.7) for BBEdit. It's based off the TextMate bundle. https://github.com/ipaintcode/BBEdit-Clippings-jQuery Good Luck, Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Gro

Re: Templates, Stationary, Clippings and Placeholders = Questions

I believe that Templates only work in HTML. Stationary works with any language. Unfortunately I have not figured out a way to use Stationary in a Project (v10.1). I am sure that I could do this in v9, could be wrong. On Sep 6, 6:52 pm, Frederick Yocum wrote: > I have a series of web pages which f

Insert date with GREP

the date when I run the text factory. I guess this is in the manual somewhere, but I can't seem to find it. TIA for any help, Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email

Re: I Want My Modal Edit Boxes Back!

On Aug 3, 4:02 pm, Rich Siegel wrote: > On Wednesday, August 3, 2011, Mark wrote: > >I'd really like to see the modal find dialog box back again as well. > > I regret to inform you that the modal Find dialog is gone for good. Can I ask what the reason for that is? A

Re: I Want My Modal Edit Boxes Back!

ly use the new non-modal dialog box if there's a way to re- enable these command shortcuts. Anyone know how? Thanks Mark * Yes I know they're not strictly speaking new as they were introduced in v9.something but there was a hidden preference to bring the modal dialog back, but v10 ha

BBEdit 10 MAS release date?

pgrade for me anyway (TextEdit, anyone ;) , but just curious when I get to dig in and learn v10 . Thanks! Mark -- 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

Re: End-of-file blank-space pref?

Are the prefs documented anywhere? I'd like to switch from a half window to a full window and can't seem to figure out what to set `ExtraSpaceInTextViews` to. Thanks. On Jul 20, 8:33 am, Rich Siegel wrote: > On Wednesday, July 20, 2011, Fritz Anderson > wrote: > > >BBEdit 10 is still honoring m

PHP Comment Callouts

Hey everyone, I've been experimenting with PHP's comment callout feature and it appears to be a bit buggy. I'm sure it will be fixed eventually, but in the meantime I got to researching writing my own mode and couldn't find any documentation on the comment callouts (in the SDK or elsewhere). Does a

Re: Copy Paste Wrap

This certainly exists, check out Clippings that allow you to this and much more! /Mark 21 apr 2011 kl. 19.54 skrev Bo: > Is there a way to paste / wrap. > > for example, I select the word 'frack' in an html document is it > somehow possible for me to copy tags, then paste

Re: Grep question: Replacing data that do not match criterion

26 jan 2011 kl. 14.41 skrev Doug Pinkerton: >>> On Jan 26, 2011, at 06:31, Doug Pinkerton wrote: >>> I need to extract email addresses from a file. Fortunately, the email >>> addresses are in angle brackets . I have no problem >>> matching that pattern. But I need to match everything BUT that p

Insert File Contents from a project

do what I need to do? Thanks in advance, Mark -- 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...@

Disk Browser Styling

Hey guys, I'm wondering if there's any way I can change the styling of the disk browser/project file list? Currently it's striped with light grey and it feels heavy, especially with multiple projects open. Is there anyway to convert it to a source list, like Mail/iTunes/iPhoto etc, where the backgr

Opening file causes -54 error

successfully with other text editors — TextEdit, for example. Is there a preference or option I’m missing that will let me open this file? Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email

Re: iPad

Count me in too. BBEdit would probably be the tipping point for me to consider buying an iPad. On Jan 27, 12:55 pm, marimbadog wrote: > Let me be the first to ask (at least I think I'm the first). BBEdit > for the iPad? Would make my life as a web master easier -- You received this message

Re: Compare Two Front Documents bringing up wrong documents

Thanks, both to you and pr10n. When I saw that post, I was under the mistaken impression that 9.3.1 was what I had just upgraded to. (I didn't realize it was pre- release.) I'll check it out. -- Mark On Dec 6, 3:53 pm, Dennis wrote: > On Dec 4, 6:51 pm, bradpaton wrote: > &g

Compare Two Front Documents bringing up wrong documents

Hi. Since upgrading to 9.3.1, I've found the Compare Two Front Documents feature behaving erratically (to me, anyway). If I have two text windows open, with multiple documents in each, and I choose Compare Two Front Documents, I no longer get the frontmost document in each of the two windows. In f

Priority of Growl Notifications

Is there a way to change the priority of Growl notifications? The reason I ask is that they seem to be high priority. For me this means they are sent to Prowl, which I would rather avoid. Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are s

Re: BBEdit 9.2

On May 8, 1:04 am, Rich Siegel wrote: > *   Further refinements to Projects, including a new file format >     and an assortment of convenience features; I just updated to 9.2 and had to update my projects. I can't say I really understand the logic of creating NEW copies of all my projects and

Re: Turn off dictionary for autocomplete?

I would also like this - I could not find a preference option that would disable it. Also, completion is not entirely robust at the moment. I got the following CTAGS crash while editing an objective C++ file (with a mix of ObjC++, C++ and header files open in BBEdit): Process: ctags [293

"Tidy" now converting html entities back to unicode characters?

Has anyone else noticed that -- in BBEdit 9 -- Markup > Tidy > Reflow Document... seems to be changing most HTML entities back to their unicode character? Running Tidy on a document containing &eaccute;, for instance, converts it to é. Doesn't do that with  , though. (But   is the only one I've