Chris~
Why not use a simple grep to do it for you? This works for me:
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Find:
(^.+)
Replace:
•\1
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Cheers,
~Semper Fi, Mac!
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On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Christopher Stone wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> Jeeze. It's been a long time since I seriously scripted BBEdit. In
> this case I want to prefix every line in the front document.
>
> This works fine:
>
> tell application "BBEdit"
> tell front text document
> set before first word of line 3 to "•"
> end tell
> end tell
>
> This doesn't:
>
> tell application "BBEdit"
> set before first word of every line of front text document to "•"
> end tell
>
> This does the job perfectly:
>
> tell application "BBEdit"
> tell front text document
> add prefix ( lines 1 thru -1 ) prefix "•"
> end tell
> end tell
>
> And you can loop through or do a find/replace of course. All this
> discovered, and I still feel like I'm missing something. Any more
> useful magic?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Chris
>
>
> >
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