When you drag a .webloc file to BBEdit, it hands the file off to the default browser. Patrick Woolsey <[email protected]> explains : > > First, BBEdit always resolves webloc/urlloc files as that is their explicit > function (irrespective of internal format). > You can, however, extract the URL from any such file by dropping it INTO an > editing window (or the scratchpad).
This is much the same explanation as when I complained about the same issue some months ago. Two points about this. One, although it does let you capture the URL from the .webloc file, you can't edit the webloc to alter the URL. Cases in point: you have a webloc of a forum discussion on your desktop. You can't use BBEdit to alter that webloc to point to a different page of the discussion as the thread evolves. Or you have a webloc that has many browser arguments, eg the URL to a google map. You can't edit the webloc to tinker with one parameter and save it. Two: you CAN do exactly that kind of editing: just drop the webloc onto the dock icon of TextEdit. It opens the webloc file as plain text and you can update it and save it back. -- 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>
