On Mar 21, 2011 at 12:57 PM +1100, Charlie Garrison wrote:
What sort of integration is missing? What does Textmate do that BBEdit
doesn't? I run unix scripts (perl in my case) from BBEdit every day.
Between the Run Script command and worksheets (& filters as you mentioned)
I don't feel like I'm missing any functionality.
I'd love to be able to call a Unix script (not a filter) that picks what the
active file is and does something with it. I don't mean munge the files
contents, but use the open text file as an argument to a command line
utility (or whatever else you might do in shell script). Maybe this is a
feature that has been added - the last time I checked, scripts were passed
no real information about what was going on in the GUI. As far as I know,
the only way to do this is to write a wrapper Applescript that calls your
Unix script, with any BBEdit interaction takes place in the Applescript
layer.
For example, I write a lot of Latex files. I prefer to do that in BBEdit.
When it comes time to run the file I'm working on through pdflatex, I can't
just write a shell script that uses the active document's file path as an
argument while calling pdflatex.
If you are interested in seeing more, CompileTeX is a suite that someone
wrote a while back that does exactly this. The core of the interaction with
latex is through a shell script, but it has many Applescript bits that call
the main shell script with various options.
Another example - what if you wanted to copy the currently open file to a
specified location using a shell script (I know you can do this via
Applescript). How would you go about doing that with either Unix filters or
scripts?
I wish I had more examples ready for you, but over the years I've tried to
do various things, ran into this, gave up, and forgotten about them. I will
say that I am happy with filters and scripts for 90% of the stuff I do.
Hopefully I'm wrong and this kind of thing can now be done...
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