Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

Thanks for weighing in on this Rich, always interesting to hear from the man himself. It seems like I and the others on this thread do have Emacs or any number of similarly configurable text editors in mind when we're asking for a feature like this to be considered. It's very clear that BBEdit

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

Watts, I do agree with you that some of the features we've been discussing have likely been asked for many times, but Bare Bones is reluctant to add them for the reasons you mention. I remember trying Textmate several years back (before having tried BBEdit, had only seen others use it) and fin

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

On Tuesday, May 14, 2013, Watts Martin wrote: Quasi-seriously, I think BBEdit often seems to be of the opinion that shortcuts are for wimps in general. BBEdit is a software product and is not sentient. :-) You may be thinking of Emacs, which has Lisp built into it and is therefore self awar

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

Christopher Finazzo wrote: If someone can find out how to sell this idea to regular people, maybe it would catch on outside of our circle of nerds, but I can just as easily see someone look at it and dismiss it without a second thought ("Text expansion is for wimps, just type" etc.) Text edito

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

Take a look at bbautocomplete . On Monday, May 13, 2013 6:36:17 PM UTC-4, John Delacour wrote: > > On 13/5/13 at 21:16, chris@gmail.com (Christopher > Finazzo) wrote: > > >In an ideal scenario, I wouldn't have to use modifier keys > >(Command, Option,

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

On 13/5/13 at 21:16, chris.fina...@gmail.com (Christopher Finazzo) wrote: In an ideal scenario, I wouldn't have to use modifier keys (Command, Option, etc.) at all in order to invoke the clipping. It just seems odd to me that autocomplete is "pigeon-holed" into this relatively limited way of

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

Hi. I guess I'm a bit confused, then. I can understand why test expansion and the like wouldn't appeal to some people, but for solving your particular problem, TextExpander would work. You could tell it, for example, that if you typed HTML in bbedit, and then followed it with a chosen demarcatio

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

I've tried them, but the whole idea of these kinds of text expansion apps just doesn't appeal to me. If I'm thinking about it objectively, I can see there is a use case for some people, but that's not me. If someone can find out how to sell this idea to regular people, maybe it would catch on o

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

In an ideal scenario, I wouldn't have to use modifier keys (Command, Option, etc.) at all in order to invoke the clipping. It just seems odd to me that autocomplete is "pigeon-holed" into this relatively limited way of doing things... On Friday, May 10, 2013 11:24:29 AM UTC-4, Fritz Anderson wr

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

Yes. From my conversations with Patrick from Bare Bones, it seems that it is simply a philosophical argument about what keys are allowed to be used for the autocomplete function. "Tab" seems like the logical choice, but as it's already used by many other functions, which might be problematic for

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: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

On 10 May 2013, at 9:52 AM, Christopher Finazzo wrote: > Is there a reason why BBEdit does not support arbitrary keybindings for > inserting snippets ... I have key equivalents in my clipping sets for TeX and Markdown. I hit opt-cmd-B, and the selected text (or the insertion point) is wrapped

Re: Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

While not exactly a response to your question, have you looked at something like TextExpander, BetterTouchTool, and so on? TextExpander especially is incredibly powerful, letting you nest expansions, include Applescript or shell scripts as part of an expansion, and much else. Sent from my iPad

Arbitrary Keybindings in BBEdit

I sent this message to Bare Bones Support earlier this morning, I am replicating it here for the purpose of general discussion. Is there a reason why BBEdit does not support arbitrary keybindings for inserting snippets or autocompletion of text. Moving to BBEdit from Coda, this was a feature th