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This is a Safari extension that enables external text editor support for TextArea. I'm using it now to write this response. On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:32 AM, leecreighton <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, please, please tell me I'm not over my head with this. > > I'm employed at a company where I have to spent all day, every day, > programming inside a web form. Mostly it's perl, but it gets typed > into a web page field. When I'm ready to test, I click a button on > that page to process the perl and see the output. I've checked, and > this seems to be my only option. > > What I'd like to do is write my code in BB Edit, then automatically > send what's in my editor window to the appropriate textarea in the > window. It'll be open in Safari, and I can get the name of the > destination textarea. The button I click to start the preview process > is rigged to a javascript. Any way I can also get the button to click, > or somehow otherwise trip the javascript to start after it's received > my textual goodness from BBEdit? > > Since this involved so many applications, maybe I need to write an > applescript (?) that says "Get the BBEdit Code, place it in the > textarea called 'foo', then trigger the javascript called 'Go' ". But > I'm not sure if Applescript has that fine control. And I'd of course > like to keep BBedit in control for some reason. > > I feel like this should be possible. I already can get my text out of > BBEdit to the terminal, but to a specific form element on a page… > that's tricky. > > Merci mille fois in advance. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> > If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, > please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> > -- David Eves -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at <http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en> If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
