Re: Help getting a codeless language module working

Have you tried wrapping the contents of your "Identifier and Keyword Character Class” inside a CDATA wrapper ? You can find the latest version of my code - which still works in the latest BBEdit - on GitHub

Re: Regex Question

Holger, When I need to figure out a regex pattern I have a rough idea of, but want to refine, tools like the one linked below are vital. https://regex101.com/ > On Aug 23, 2015, at 8:10 PM, 'Holger B' via BBEdit Talk > wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > this is actually quite a good approach. It do

Re: Change Underlined Same-Word Variables, etc. to Background-Colored ??

> On 26 Jul 2015, at 3:13 AM, Rick Gordon wrote: > > Is it possible to change a setting so that when you click in a given word, > and all instances of the same word are underlined, to change that something > more visible, like a background color? The only option for this setting is the delay

Re: A "notebook" for BBEdit?

You should just use BBEdit itself. Even "notebook" apps clutter your system, they just hide that clutter somewhere in ~/library. Have you tried using a BBEdit project? > On Apr 28, 2015, at 12:49 AM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: > > I write a lot of notes in Markdown format, they are usually hi

Re: Show tab stops

> On Mar 17, 2015, at 8:29 PM, Jon B. wrote: > > if my maximum indentation level is five, just the corresponding five vertical > lines are shown. No, that's not possible. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, pl

Re: Find and Replace Feature

> On 27 Feb 2015, at 12:27 PM, Jared Roller wrote: > > For me, the ability to 'extract with new formatting and subpattern > replacement' would save several steps with unstructured data. Can you give a specific example? -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a featur

Re: Twitter feed causing problems

> On 27 Feb 2015, at 2:46 AM, jgill > wrote: > > I've just been asked to add a Twitter Feed widget to a web page but it is > causing great problems with BBEdit. I have the page open in BBEdit Preview > and every tiny change I make to the markup causes a page to open in Firefox > (my

Re: How to move the cursor to the top / middle / bottom of a BBEdit-window whitout scrolling the window

> On Jan 3, 2015, at 5:41 AM, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > > is there possible to move the cursor to the top- / middle- / bottom-line of a > BBEdit-window whitout scrolling this window? Top - option up Bottom - option down Middle - command shift J -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion gro

Re: Text factory - transform files in folder A and write to folder B, possibly with new extension?

> On 4 Dec 2014, at 4:16 AM, Martin Post wrote: > > I am often using Text Factories (usually just 5-10 GREP replacements) to > convert files from one format to another. These Text Factories work as they > should. However, this will modify the respective documents (in memory) and > then (option

Re: Text factory - transform files in folder A and write to folder B, possibly with new extension?

> On Dec 3, 2014, at 3:38 AM, Martin Post wrote: > > Is it possible to have a BBedit text factory read and convert e.g. all HTML > files in an "in" folder and store the transformed documents (possibly with > another filename extension such as .xml in a separate "out" folder? Would help to kno

Re: CMD-L whitout CR?

> On Nov 27, 2014, at 6:49 PM, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > > Is there a way to get rid of the CR while selecting the line with CMD-L? Not a built in way. But you can easily accomplish this with AppleScript. Just search backwards for the beginning of the line, then forwards to the end of the line

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 10.5.4

> On 14 Nov 2014, at 11:49 AM, Archie Campbell wrote: > > it was a pain that the Disk Browser wouldn't show the dot directories and > files needed to make changes. Is there a power user way to turn it back on? In the magnifying glass menu at the bottom of the browser, change “Show” to “Everyth

Re: Eek! Monaco jaggies.

As long as we're playing "favorite fonts"… I've recently fallen in love with Input. Particularly because you can pick the width and lightness of the letters you like best. http://input.fontbureau.com/ > On Oct 31, 2014, at 1:18 AM, Darrel E. Knutson > wrote: > > Hi LuKreme, > >> Menlo is

Re: Setting Markdown Key Commands

> On 14 Oct 2014, at 1:57 PM, Jon Siddle wrote: > > I'm new to BBEdit, looking for a new text editor for writing Markdown (and > that doesn't crash with large files) and was curious to know how I would go > about setting up key bindings for the most used Markdown commands (bold, > italics, lin

Re: Stationery + placeholders

> On 5 Oct 2014, at 8:21 AM, Michael Green wrote: > > Create a new document based on your stationery file and use Markup -> Update > -> Document (command-control-u). I never got a chance to dive into placeholders before. This is pretty neat. More info in "Appendix C” for those interested. -

Re: Folding Controls and Codeless Language Modules

On 4 Sep 2014, at 8:18 AM, Francisco A. Hirsch wrote: > Some time ago I wrote a Codeless Language Module for WebDNA > Today I realized that no Folding Controls appear in the gutter. > Is this an HTML only feature? > If not, is there a way to add this to a CLM? BBEdit folds anything you define as

Re: Interesting issue with files in a project

> On Jun 22, 2014, at 6:13 AM, François Schiettecatte > wrote: > > Up to now the file name have always turned back once the files became > available when the AFP server came back on line. But for some reason this is > no longer the case. The file names are remain red when I reopen the project.

Re: Using Escape key as shortcut?

> On Jun 12, 2014, at 6:53 AM, Gingi wrote: > > Is it possible to map a menu command to the Escape key? I'd like to use it > for "Complete" (currently mapped to F5), to mimic behavior on other editors. Not with BBEdit directly. There are a bunch of standard keys BBEdit doesn't let you remap.

Re: Automating Markdown endnotes

> On May 21, 2014, at 7:43 AM, David Weinberger wrote: > > I'm writing something with frequent endnotes and would like to automate how I > insert them. A ton of people have tackled this problem already. While I can't think of anything that does exactly what you want, I'd start looking for a s

Re: Opening files within a script

On 20 May 2014, at 5:31 PM, Watts Martin wrote: > What I'd like to do is have a script which will look at the current filename, > and if it contains "/api/" then it will try to open the corresponding files BBEdit's "Open File by Name" is very smart and helpful here. Simply searching for "not.m

Re: any way to easily see what has changed when Asked Do you want to Save the changes when closing?

On 14 May 2014, at 8:45 AM, Ken G. Brown wrote: > What would be the best/easiest way to find out the differences before saving > or discarding? See the menu item "Search > Compare Against Disk File" -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would li

Re: BBEdit slow large file opening

On 23 Apr 2014, at 3:15 PM, Lawrence San wrote: > But if you then go back later and make a substantial edit to your > hard-wrapped block comments, don't they turn into a mess? I've tried that, > and ended up manually dragging numerous line fragments around to get it back > into a reasonable bl

Text Colors Test

I'm developing a color-scheme for BBEdit. And I'd love to refine my color choices using real documents. Is there a single document, or set of documents, that contain an example of everything BBEdit can color? Thanks! -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature r

Re: P tag sets

> On Mar 25, 2014, at 11:38 AM, BoDe wrote: > > I think it has something to do with paragraphs usually being block elements. > If you apply a list item tag (an inline element), for example, the tagset is > added on the same line. Of course bbedit just does the right thing. -- This is the BB

Re: P tag sets

> On Mar 25, 2014, at 5:59 AM, BoDe wrote: > > I want my paragraph tag sets to be on the same line as the text it > encompasses. So: > > Some text. > > instead of > > > Some text. > I could be wrong but I think this is how BBEdit handles everything. I don't think ther

Fountain BBEdit Package

If, by some twist of fate, there's anyone else out there that uses BBEdit to write Fountain documents (http://fountain.io), you might be interested to know that I've published a package designed to make working with Fountain documents easier. It includes some handy clippings, scripts, filters, a

Re: How do I set Custom Language on files with no extension?

Do the files have an identifying metadata like a shebang line? > On Mar 4, 2014, at 8:33 AM, richwc...@gmail.com wrote: > > I develop software using a proprietary language (Tandem TAL) and have set up > the Custom Language description in BBEdit. > > The source file name have no extension as th

Re: Search and Replace links with different file names

On 27 Feb 2014, at 11:27 AM, outtacontext wrote: > I need to search for this string and delete all of them in 70 web pages. The > only problem is that the file names are different as are the link names (I've > bolded and made red those the part of the search that will be different in > every

Re: BBEdit always in front / flaky behavior of "Open documents into the front window when possible"

> On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Brian Colavito wrote: > > Here's what was happening: > 1) I have Eclipse and BB Edit on monitor 1, and the browser is open on > monitor 2 > 2) I bring Eclipse to the front on monitor 1 by clicking on it, and let BB > Edit go to the background > 3) I click on the

Re: Creating new project files via SFTP

On Feb 20, 2014, at 5:25 PM, David Donachie wrote: > I use a lot of projects where the files are all hosted on a server via SFTP. > To make a new one I have to open an SFTP browser, create the file on the > server, then drag that file into the project, then open it again in the > editor. Is th

Re: Passing a Data File to an External Executable

On Jan 2, 2014, at 11:51 AM, bfu wrote: > I make regular use of the ability to run scripts (of all kinds) from within > BBEdit making sure the shebang line is properly set. I’d like to take it a > step further and pass the contents of the current document to something else, > for example, gra

Re: reStructuredText preview filter

On Dec 28, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote: > I suspect that pandoc can’t be found in the environment that is presented to > the shell script. Try using the full path to pandoc instead. Thanks Maarten, that did the trick. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a

reStructuredText preview filter

I’m trying to setup a simple Preview Filter for reStreucturedText using pandoc. Pandoc reads from STDIN and prints to STDOUT - the following works great in the terminal: echo "this is **marked-up** text" | pandoc -f rst -t html =>this is marked-up text My thought (and I’m sure this isn’t

Re: Want to paste multiple lines to a single line - Is it possible?

> On Dec 13, 2013, at 6:47 PM, Rick Yentzer wrote: > > Any recommendations for an "intro to shell scripting?" I'd like to learn more > about it. Apple has a pretty great document on the subject: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/DOCUMENTATION/OpenSource/Conceptual/ShellScripting/Introduc

Re: Feature Request: Navigable scaled view of entire file, ala Sublime Text has on right edge

> On Dec 6, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Jeff Blanding wrote: > > Is anything like this planned or possible for a future version of BBEdit? I'd suggest sending an email to supp...@barebones.com - this is a user group, we don't know anything about future plans. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussi

Re: Markdown and HTML auto complete

On Nov 20, 2013, at 6:37 AM, Rick Yentzer wrote: > I would like the ability to autocomplete html within an .md file. What BBEdit auto-completes is largely a function of the current language setting. By default, the Markdown language does not have html tags in its auto-complete library (I’m par

Re: xcrun command

> On Nov 9, 2013, at 8:28 PM, John0325 wrote: > > I don't want to install the developer tools. But it asks me anyways every > time. How can I disable this? http://www.barebones.com/support/bbedit/faqs.html#xcrun -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature reque

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 10.5.6 (3325) pre-release

On Oct 28, 2013, at 6:46 PM, Rich Siegel wrote: > * There is now an expert preference which will cause the "Open File by >Name" window to close after using the "Open" button: > >`defaults write com.barebones.bbedit CloseOFBNWindowAfterOpeningSelection > -bool YES` Oh sweet mercy than

Re: Character palette popup in 10.9

> On Nov 3, 2013, at 12:27 PM, LuKreme wrote: > > Is it just me, or does the 10.9 character palette (command-control-space) not > work in BBEdit? Works for me. You might have to assign the menu item that shortcut. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature re

Re: Surround Selection With...

> On Oct 20, 2013, at 1:01 AM, Den Dowling wrote: > > Have you tried Clippings in BBEdit yet? Oh yes, of course. But I can't possibly anticipate all the characters I might want surround the selection with. This script allows you to surround with anything the user can think of. Plus, it would

Surround Selection With...

I'm attempting to create a script that surrounds the selected text with paired characters - in a smart way. For example, if you want to surround the selection with then just enter < and the script will do the right thing. I've got that working, but I'd love to make it a bit better. For exampl

Re: is it possible to customize "right click" contextual menu

On Oct 10, 2013, at 3:41 PM, JT wrote: > is it possible to customize "right click" contextual menu when selecting text? No. But there are several ways to make accessing the menu-item easy. 1. you can assign a keyboard shortcut to any menu item in "BBEdit > Preferences > Menus & Shortcuts" 2.

Re: insert character in specific places

On Sep 24, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Timothy Hellum wrote: > I have a single column of a thousand or so phone numbers in their 10 > character string format. I'd like to add dashes in positions 4 and 7: > 123-123-1234 Assuming the phone numbers are always formatted as "1231231234"... Search: (\d{3})(\

Re: Help - How to Insert list of text strings into sequential placeholders

On Sep 24, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Kip Shaw wrote: > Is there a way to automatically grab sequential items from a list (ideally > from the clipboard) and insert them into sequential placeholders? When I need to do this I use "Text > Prefix/Suffix Lines". If it's the same markup every time you could

Re: repalcement patterns

On Sep 14, 2013, at 3:19 PM, Ken Lanxner wrote: > How do I correctly write something like > > \113 > > to indicate I want the replaced value to be the 1st found subpattern > immediately followed by 13 --- not the the 11th found subpattern followed by > 3? Page 176 of the User Manual might

Re: Clippings with multiple similarly-named substitution placeholders

On Sep 6, 2013, at 8:00 AM, Damian Carrillo wrote: > Is there anyway to have the second and third <#name#> be replaced with the > value I type into the first? I'd love to be proven wrong, but as far as I can tell this (much vaunted TextMate feature) is not possible. However, you could write a

Re: Resizeable 'Currently Open Documents' frame

On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:07 AM, BBunny wrote: > Collapsing the project list or opening the Windows palette are not acceptable > alternatives. The first takes too much time since I use my project list all > the time, and the second takes additional screen real estate. Mac users have > come to exp

Re: Soft Wrap and search & replace project file

On Aug 10, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Joshua Wilson wrote: > So is there any way to either fix my preferences to do the softwrap for the > project I can think of a few things that might help: 1. Set BBEdit's default to soft-wrap 2. Set a hot key for your soft-wrap preference But having a number af

Re: Block-style comments in BBEdit 10? (not a newbie, just really puzzled)

On Jul 24, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Laura Gutman wrote: > When I choose the Un/Comment Text command (from the menu or by keyboard > shortcut), if I have multiple lines of code selected, I would like a > block-style comment applied/removed. >From the "Expert Preferences" section of BBEdit's Help: >

Re: Currently Open Documents

On Jul 12, 2013, at 1:34 AM, j...@kilroyjames.co.uk wrote: > Is someone genuinely sat there saying - yes I know people want these windows > to be flexible, but they are wrong they should be rigid and tiny. I can't speak for Bare Bones, but that's probably exactly what they're thinking. My guess

Re: Select word

On Jul 3, 2013, at 6:36, Rick Yentzer wrote: > What I'm looking for is a way to select a word and then select more words > until I get the selection I want. > > I'll use this as an example: > "grunt-contrib-nodeunit" > > If my cursor is in the middle of the word "contrib" then I can double cli

Re: duplicate content - find & replace

On Jun 10, 2013, at 3:34 PM, The Ultronz wrote: > what I mean is lets say you have a text document that is a list of names > there are several "Bob's" and "Tom's" etc. There are many ways to do this, can you provide a sample file? -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 10.5.4

Oh man, thanks for this one: > Added expert prefs help for the ExtraSpaceInTextViews setting. I had no idea that was there. -- 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 pos

Re: Can't Remap Option-Delete

On Jun 1, 2013, at 5:36 AM, Ramsey Shehadeh wrote: > I'm trying to remap the Option-Delete key combination to call a custom > AppleScript, but not having much success. Option and command cannot be bound to custom shortcuts by themselves. You have to include control, shift, etc. BUT, control c

Re: Best way to filter HTML

On May 25, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Rob Lewis wrote: > Never tried any of BBEdit's fancier features. What would be the best way to > take a file of HTML and extract just the code between the following tag > pairs: > > and Is "Markup > Utilities > Remove Markup" what you're looking for? -- This

Re: New Text Document… for project, keyboard shortcut?

On May 23, 2013, at 8:18 AM, Jeremy Cowgar wrote: > I do not see any other way of creating a new file in my project. If I press > Command-N, a new window entirely is created, which isn't what I want 99% of > the time. 99% of the time I want a new document for my current project. The short answ

Show Invisibles In Selection

I've always loved how Pages shows invisible characters (like line-breaks) when you've selected them, like this: And I've always wanted the same thing in BBEdit. I like to see them, but having them always on can be cluttering. A bolt of inspiration hit my brain today and I figured out how to d

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

On May 10, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Christopher Finazzo wrote: > I would much rather be able to assign a short name and then be able to press > Tab in order to complete a tag or other block of text. This is provided by BBEdit's auto-complete function. Type the clipping-name then select from the men

Re: Insertion inside empty comments

On May 9, 2013, at 4:00 AM, Riccardo Perotti wrote: > I used to be able to hit "Un/Comment Selection" in an EMPTY selection and get > an empty comment with the insertion point *INSIDE* not after it: > > WANT: > > /* #insertion# */ I get this behavior on my mac. Looks like the problem is speci

Re: Dual Panels

On May 3, 2013, at 7:38 PM, a de jesus wrote: > Is there anyway to have two panels in BBEdit 10 so that my HTML file is one > panel and CSS file in another panel. With both panels in one single window? Bbedit only does 1 window per file. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If

Re: I can't change the default font in BBedit 10.5.3

On May 1, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Aethon wrote: > it's not just the font that's the problem. The other settings (such as width > of page text) aren't sticking either. I've had some problems with font selection in the past. Try moving bbedit's preference files to the desktop (you can always move the

Re: Radical changes to BB-EDIT 10's Search Dialogue box?

On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:56 PM, David A. Lewis wrote: > So, where have they hidden this feature in the new "improved" version 10? > PLEASE bring it back, (or advise on where it went! :O) I'm new to v10 so I can't speak to the removal of this, but I will say 1. a quick grep addition of ".*" to

Re: text complation delay

On Apr 2, 2013, at 7:07 AM, stratboy wrote: > Hi, how is it possible to lowering (maybe to zero) the delay I've got to wait > to see code completion menu? BBEdit has great built-in help: When automatic text completion is enabled, the default completion interval is half a second. To adjust: d

Re: Regaining mindshare for BBEdit

On Mar 19, 2013, at 5:07 PM, Bruce Van Allen wrote: > "X Editor does Vaguely Described Feature(TM) better than BBEdit." > > Love it. > > Just in case we're really missing something, anyone care to define > "incremental find" and explain how it differs from what BBEdit offers? It's true, I was

Re: Regaining mindshare for BBEdit

On Mar 19, 2013, at 4:02 PM, Steve deRosier wrote: > BBones-> please have cmd-e populate the live search text. It annoys me > (every day!!!) that cmd-e works just fine for the main search, but > doesn't work on live search. Oh wow, I didn't know that one. Thanks! -- -- You received this messa

Re: Regaining mindshare for BBEdit

On Mar 19, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Ted Burger wrote: > I am still running 9.6.3 but I simply highlight a word then hit CMD-E, now > each CMD-G finds the next occurrence of the word. > Am I missing something??? No, this works very well, I use it all the time. -- -- You received this message because

Re: Regaining mindshare for BBEdit

I usually abstain from these things, but I'm a little bored, so why not... On Mar 18, 2013, at 11:27 AM, David Foster wrote: > Sublime Text and TextMate have all but supplanted BBEdit in terms of > mindshare in the circles that I travel in. I would agree with that. There are a thousand reason

Re: Way to stop minimised windows appearing on app focus?

On Mar 2, 2013, at 3:30 PM, Melissa wrote: > I don't know if this just my missing something, but when I have all open > windows in BBEdit minimised, switch focus to another app, and then later > click on BBEdit in the dock to give it focus again, is there a way to prevent > it from un-minimisi

Re: Pass Parameters to Text Filter Script

On Feb 24, 2013, at 2:55 AM, ctfishman wrote: > Is it possible to pass parameters to a script being run as a text filter? No. You'd have to use an AppleScript to prompt for parameters and pass those to your script (or something similar). -- -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: Grep help?

On Feb 21, 2013, at 3:58 AM, Kendall Conrad wrote: > I had to switch the \n to \r before that would work. \n and \r are interchangeable in 10.5+ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send emai

Re: Grep help?

On Feb 20, 2013, at 5:47 PM, Lorin Rivers wrote: > Oh Mighty Ones, > > I have a big list that looks something like this: > speedo_705494_001.jpg > speedo_7051210_418.jpg > speedo_7051210_418_bk.jpg > speedo_7051200_041.jpg > speedo_7051200_041_bk.jpg > speedo_7051200_041_bk_a.jpg > speedo_705091

Re: How to change character of invisible space from a diamond to a simple grey centered dot?

On Feb 17, 2013, at 8:56 AM, lawlist wrote: > I miss the grey centered dot that is available in other programs to indicate > invisible spaces. The diamond shape is so intrusive, that I do not use the > feature. Has anyone figured out how to change the diamond shape to something > more palata

Re: GREP beginning of document / Add text to the start of a file

On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Adam Wright wrote: > How do you do a GREP search of the beginning of a document? \A = beginning of document \Z = end of document -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this g

Re: Wrap List Text Filter

On Jan 23, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Oliver Taylor wrote: > I write lists in the following format: > > 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. > 2. Consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod >tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna >aliqua. > 3. Ut enim ad minim

Wrap List Text Filter

I write lists in the following format: 1. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. 2. Consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. 3. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. 4. Du

Re: annoying pause with brackets

On Dec 13, 2012, at 10:58 PM, KAG wrote: > So moving from left to right across this generates lots of unpleasant pauses. > But I don't want to turn off the highlighting that occurs when I type the > closing characters ) ] } >From the 10.5 release notes: > When you use the right-arrow key to

Re: restoring bbedit state is absolutely annoying

On Dec 13, 2012, at 2:52 PM, John Delacour wrote: > What do _you_ mean by attributing this to me! Oops, double-quoted, sorry! I meant it for "cancerinform", which is an interesting username. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on

Re: restoring bbedit state is absolutely annoying

On Dec 13, 2012, at 1:59 PM, John Delacour wrote: >> This results in eliminating the rest of my harddrive that I only see the >> bbedit window. That do you mean by this? I don't understand "eliminating the rest of me harddrive". See Preferences > Reopen documents that were open at last quit.

Re: Does anybody what happened to the unsaved dot from <10.5 BBEdit?

On Dec 11, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Grant Hutchinson wrote: >> I still have the dot in v10.5 here. > > Hmmm ... that's interesting. What version of OS X are you running? I see dots. Running 10.8.2 -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on G

Re: Double Click

On Dec 10, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Squidco wrote: > From the text below I see that BareBones knows about the problem, but it > would be really helpful to find a workaround I wouldn't assume that because it's on this user list Bare Bones knows about it. I would file a bug report with supp...@barebone

Set Jump Point via Applescript

I'm trying to set a jump point via applescript and can't seem to get it working. This is what I have: > -- Set Jump Point in BBEdit 10.5 > tell application "System Events" > tell process "BBEdit" > tell menu bar 1 > tell menu bar item "Go" >

Re: how to eliminate the universal items half from the clippings palette?

On Dec 7, 2012, at 11:54 PM, steveax wrote: > Yeah, I'd really like to see an option to put the universal items below the > language specific group too. That palette is much too wide for my tastes now. File a feature request with supp...@barebones.com -- -- You received this message because

Re: how to eliminate the universal items half from the clippings palette?

On Dec 7, 2012, at 1:52 AM, stratboy wrote: > It seems I cannot get rid of that. I attached a shot. I mean the left side > (universal items, that I don't use at all). Oh. You can't customize the look of the palette. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit T

Re: how to eliminate the universal items half from the clippings palette?

On Dec 5, 2012, at 3:11 AM, stratboy wrote: > Hi. I never use them, and they weren't there in bbedit v9. How to eliminate > the universal items half from the clippings palette? See page 255 of the user manual for details on how to customize the clippings. -- -- You received this message beca

Re: Ctags

On Dec 3, 2012, at 6:16 AM, François Schiettecatte wrote: > I have been playing around with ctags this morning and have not been able to > get them to work. I've found tags to be particularly finicky, and documentation sparse. Try setting your document's language to "none". Also keep in min

Re: Sidebar selection in project not always in sync with current doc in editor

On Nov 20, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Alex Satrapa wrote: > Can the project pane be collapsed in the new version of BBEdit? I can't find > a way to collapse it other than Command+0 which hides the entire “drawer” > including Current and Recent documents. In 10.5 (currently in beta) -- -- You receive

Re: Sidebar selection in project not always in sync with current doc in editor

On Nov 20, 2012, at 8:34 AM, Jason Sims wrote: > The sidebar selection should always indicate which document is currently > visible in the editor (otherwise what's the use of it?). I realize the > selection does update in "Currently Open Documents", but if that's not going > to happen in the "

Re: AppleScript script "modified" by BBE

On Nov 15, 2012, at 3:25 PM, John Delacour wrote: > If I am editing a BBEdit AppleScript script in Script Editor and run it from > BBEdit, the next time I edit the script I am told it has been modified [by > BBEdit’s having run it], and I have to ‘Save anyway’. This is not a great > inconveni

Re: Clippings file not matching language

On Oct 25, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Peter Gallagher wrote: > I select Markdown as a language in Prefs and ensure that the "match clipping > set to language" checkbox is set. > > But when I open a file with a .md extension and /or set the kind to > "Markdown" in the window menu, the "Markdown" clippin

Re: Text Filter Attachment Script

On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > I regret this arrangement won't work since you can only attach scripts to > intrinsic commands, not text filters or other external items. Interesting, a very good to know. I've got a work-around going via Keyboard Maestro at the moment. --

Re: A different kind of "select word"

On Oct 18, 2012, at 7:58 AM, David Cortesi wrote: > So one way to find a word is to look forward for \W then back for \W\w+ > however this is not going to hit at beginning or end of line (of file, > if ?-m given), so \b\w+\b is perhaps a better choice. The problem with this approach is that it d

A different kind of "select word"

I'm trying to write a different kind of "Select Word" script. I've used Gruber's and several others, but find them lacking or buggy in lengthy documents. Because I'm an applescript simpleton, and this is an interesting exercise, I've done it with a chain of grep searches. The logic I'm using is

Text Filter Attachment Script

I've got a simple ruby text filter that underlines text (in Markdown/Setext style): text = ARGF.read counter = text.length puts text counter.times { print "-" } p And I want to attach a script to the menu item so that if there's no selection the line is selected, then the text filter runs. Here

Re: Adding text vertically / column mode in BBEdit?

On Oct 14, 2012, at 9:59 AM, giebellasche wrote: > Actually, Roland, I cannot see to get Rick's task accomplished. I think you > can only get > > red the fox > red the dog > red the cat > > or > > the fox red > the dog red > the cat red > > with your trick. Could you please specify the setti

Select Word Menu Script

BBEdit's "Change Case" command is useful, but if there is no selection it acts on the entire document. I cannot think of a single situation in which I'd like to change the case of the entire document. It makes much more sense to change the selection and fallback to the current word when there i

Where do you keep projects?

Where do you save your projects? In the project's folder? In a "projects" folder? I know you can save them anywhere, I'm asking where the list prefers to keep their BBEdit Project Files. Just curious. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion

Re: Cursor Movement & Selection Shortcuts

On Aug 23, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Oliver Boermans wrote: > I’m curious, what punctuation would this regex not account for?: > > (?<=\w)\b(?![^\w\s]\w) I think I might switch to this. Good work! -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Go

Re: Cursor Movement & Selection Shortcuts

>> I noticed “Go To Next Word, End” ignores words which are followed by >> punctuation (except full stops) rather than a space: > I took off my lazy hat and had a go rewriting the regex myself: > > tell application "BBEdit" > find "(?<=\\w)\\b" searching in text of front text window option

Re: Save to documents folder

Try temporarily removing the prefs and check your BBEdit menu settings. On Aug 20, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Thomas wrote: > Is this odd behaviour, have I garbled my prefs or misses BBEdit a system wide > shortcut? Today i tried to save a file to my documents folder pressing > command-shift-O in the

Re: Font change in "Preview with BBEdit" possible?

Page 227 of the user manual. On Aug 10, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Maarten Sneep wrote: > > On 10 aug. 2012, at 22:17, Alain Paradis wrote: > >> Does anyone know if it's possible to change the font in BBedit's own preview >> window? It's not a big deal, but Times New Roman hurts my head. > > Includ

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