On 13 dec 2008, at 22:56, Doug McNutt wrote:

> 2) It is possible to send AppleEvents to BBEdit from a running shell
> script. The tool is osascript along with its cousin osacompile.
> Using osascript with a here document ( << redirection) you can ask
> BBEdit to "find" and "copy" or report selected stuff for access by
> the running shell script.

Yes, from a shell script, that isn't run from BBEdit itself. BBedit  
will not process AppleEvents it receives while it is busy with a shell  
script (invoked as a unix filter or unix shell script. Be careful with  
this method.

#!/bin/sh

# the next line will never return when this script is run as a unix  
script straight from BBEdit
# press cmd-. to break out of the infinite loop.
osascript -e 'tell application "BBEdit" to quit'

## end script

Maarten

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