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

It seems to me that BB has REMOVED several functions from the Search Dialogue box that I (previously) found very very useful. One of them, the most irritating new ommission, is the checkbox, that would "extend the selection", so that if I put the text-insertion point into a document at the beg

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

I'm not sure what you mean by a "section", but here's a script that will select up to any characters. You can then search the selection. Steve (* Select up to any characters: >> Opens a find window for the characters >> Examples: >> To select up to a double line break, enter (unquoted) "\r\r"

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

Here's an even shorter script to do what you ask. For using the script, follow the direction in Patrick Woolsey's post here. Steve > tell application "BBEdit" >> set _searchto to the text returned of (display dialog