I'm new to BBedit.
I notice that there is a plethora of different ways to filter text
through a pipeline, but I can't find anything that corresponds to the
venerable vi "!" commands: specify some text, hit "!", type in a
pipeline, the selected text is written to the standard input of the
pipeline and the standard output of the pipeline replaces the text.
I tried making a filter like this (pardon my rudimentary applescript
abilities):
#!/bin/ksh
# read and execute a shell filter
eval "$(osascript <<\FIN
tell application "bbedit"
display dialog "Filter selection thru shell command" with title
"Shell filter" default answer "cat" buttons {"go"} default button 1
end tell
set xxx to result
set nl to ascii character 10
set cmd to text returned of xxx
return cmd & nl
FIN
)"
exit 0
and it works fine when run from the terminal (echo stuff |
this_script), but just hangs when it is run from inside BBedit (from
the shell filters folder).
I remember reading that you're not supposed to do "fancy GUI stuff"
from those filters, and I'm guessing that putting up a display dialog
is too fancy.
Is there some way to filter text through an ad hoc shell pipeline? It
would really be convenient.
Cheers,
Greg Shenaut
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