Looks great! Thank you again. I forgot BBedit was recordable.
Definitely one of the nicer, real Mac apps out there. I find I've been
using it for even non-programming work thanks to Hog Bays Quckcursor.
Sort of a "Edit in BBedit" program that works with any text field.
Mark
On Mar 15, 1:04 pm, Steve Samuels <sjsamu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> To automate the process somewhat, here's an AppleScript that will
> prompt for the search string. I've provided two versions of the
> search, one that excludes, one that includes the line; just comment
> out the one you want. You will probably have to remove line breaks
> in the "find" statement that are inserted by Google Mail. If you put
> this in BBEdit's Scripts folder, you can assign it a keyboard in the
> Window /Palette/Scripts menu. (By the way, I started writing this
> script by recording a simple search.)
>
> Steve
> _______________________________________
> (* Search up to Line Containing Specified Text
> *)
> tell application "BBEdit"
> set _searchto to the text returned of (display dialog "Enter search
> string" default answer "")
> set _sstring to "(?s).+?(?=((?-s)^.*" & _searchto & ".*$))" --exclude
> line with search text
> -- set _sstring to "(?s).+?((?-s)^.*" & _searchto & ".*$)" --
> include the line
> open find window
> find _sstring searching in text 1 of front document options {search
> mode:grep, starting at top:false, wrap around:true, backwards:false,
> case sensitive:false, match words:false, extend selection:false} with
> selecting match
> end tell
> _________________________________________
>
> On Mar 14, 2:40 pm, Simdude <markmille...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thanks again Steve. Actually, I wanted to perform an operation within
> > a selection to mimic what vi can do by specifying a range. i.e. do a
> > search and replace but only in a certain range. While it appears you
> > can't directly do this in BBedit, your tip will allow me to first
> > create a selection region, and then I can operation on that region.
>
> > thanks!
>
> > On Mar 13, 10:39 am, Steve Samuels <sjsamu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Mark, your original question was how to select all text from the
> > > cursor up to the _line_ that
> > > contains specified text. Here are solutions.
>
> > > Exclude the line from the selection: (?s).+?(?=((?-s)^.*HELLO.*$))
> > > Include the line in the selection: (?s).+?((?-s)^.*HELLO.*$)
>
> > > These will fail if the current line contains the text.
>
> > > Steve
>
> > > On Mar 10, 5:39 pm, Steve Samuels <sjsamu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > You are welcome, Mark. To give you a head start, with manual
> > > > references:
>
> > > > "(?s)" extends the search over line endings (p. 188)
>
> > > > ".+?HELLO" searches text up through the first occurrence of HELLO (non-
> > > > greedy matching, p. 177)
>
> > > > "(?=HELLO)" says to search up to "HELLO" but not include "HELLO" in
> > > > the found text (positive lookahead, pp. 187,190).
>
> > > > Parentheses around "HELLO" are a stylistic choice and don't affect
> > > > this search, though they might be important in other, more complicated
> > > > searches.
>
> > > > Steve
>
> > > > On Mar 10, 2:49 pm, Simdude <markmille...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > Wow. Thanks Steve. I have to give this a try as soon as I get home.
> > > > > And I guess it's time to dig into the BBedit docs some more!
>
> > > > > On Mar 10, 2:35 pm, Steve Samuels <sjsamu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Searching for "(?s).+?(HELLO)" will select all text from the cursor
> > > > > > up through the first "HELLO" and "(?s).+?(?=HELLO)" will select all
> > > > > > text up to first "HELLO">.
>
> > > > > > Steve
>
> > > > > > On Mar 10, 8:35 am, Simdude <markmille...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > > > > Thanks Chris. I did know about the selection operations but when
> > > > > > > you
> > > > > > > have to do this repeatedly in a file, it's not as efficient.
> > > > > > > Scripting
> > > > > > > is probably a better option but I'll have to improve my
> > > > > > > Applescript
> > > > > > > skills to be able to do this faster.
>
> > > > > > > For any Barebones guys, adding something like to to a future
> > > > > > > BBedit
> > > > > > > would be a killer feature. With the help of some books, I've used
> > > > > > > vi
> > > > > > > to rearrange sections of large documents by using commands like
> > > > > > > this
> > > > > > > to find and move sections. The problem is while you can do this
> > > > > > > with
> > > > > > > a single line in vi, it can take 30 minutes to figure out what to
> > > > > > > type
> > > > > > > in that line!
>
> > > > > > > Mark
>
> > > > > > > On Mar 9, 5:26 pm, Christopher Stone
> > > > > > > <listmeis...@thestoneforge.com>
> > > > > > > wrote:
>
> > > > > > > > On Mar 09, 2011, at 10:28, Simdude wrote:> Is there a way in
> > > > > > > > BBedit to operate on ranges of data? For example, when I use
> > > > > > > > vi, if I want to do a search and replace on all text from my
> > > > > > > > current cursor to the line that contains "HELLO", I would do
> > > > > > > > this:
>
> > > > > > > > > :.,/HELLO/ s/this/that/g
>
> > > > > > > > > Can BBedit do this sort of range stuff?
>
> > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________
>
> > > > > > > > Hey Mark,
>
> > > > > > > > Not directly. But you can script that kind of search, or you
> > > > > > > > can find/replace in the current selection. So you could find +
> > > > > > > > 'extend selection' to select your range and then find/replace
> > > > > > > > *within* the range.
>
> > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > Best Regards,
> > > > > > > > Chris- Hide quoted text -
>
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