it would be much easier to work with a selection rather than getting applescript to find selector, get all reverse to space then all forward to space.
I cant even write that cleanly. hope that helps On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Gregg Thomason <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm a little new do doing anything serious with AppleScript. I've been > porting the vim Surround plugin, and I've gotten it working great except > currently it only operates on the selection. I want to have it operate by > default on whatever the word is under the cursor. > > My problem is while I can locate where the cursor is in the document, I > can't seem to gin up the right incantation for "given an insertion point at > startColumn foo" (say, in the middle of a word), "backtrack to the word > boundary and use that as the new start point". Is this even possible, or am > I totally approaching it from the wrong mental angle? > > Thanks, > > -- > 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> > -- 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>
