Hi Gregg, I'm not able to help you by myself on this. But perchance you need not reinvent the wheel by peeking at John Gruber's fine "Select Word" script for professional inspiration (and profund explanation): http://daringfireball.net/2003/09/select_word_script_for_bbedit
Regards, Roland Am 02.03.2011 um 15:13 schrieb Gregg Thomason: > 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>
