it's true that AppleScript may be a new Lang to learn, but it's pretty
damn easy with millions of example code on the web. it may be a lot
easierthan you think!
Sent from my Apple ][
On Mar 20, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Tim Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jan 15, 2011 at 12:02 AM -0800, BBunny wrote:
The "Misc" menu in previous versions of BBEdit contained an "index"
feature, which generated a hierarchical index—in other words, a si
temap
—of a Web site, with live links to the pages. With version 9.6, t
hat
feature has been eliminated. Can anyone suggest a script or other
easy
way of replacing that function? Thanks much.
I think I could write up a script that does this pretty easily. The
only problem is that BBEdit only provides two methods for unix
scripts, 'filters' and 'scripts'. Scripts run in Terminal, so it's
kind of difficult to get the output of said script into a new BBEdit
window in an automated fashion. Filters run on an existing window
and replace the contents.
A third option is to call a unix script from an Applescript.
Applescript can obviously open new BBEdit windows, etc., but its
kind of kludgy to have a parent Applescript call on separate unix
script. You'd have to install two files, etc. Of course, the
obvious solution would be to write a 100% Applescript script, but
for the life of me I can't master Applescript.
So, I can provide you with a Python script that you can run from the
command line. You feed it a directory and it will make an index
page for the html files in that directory. Would that be useful?
I wish there was tighter integration between BBEdit and scripting
languages, like Python and Perl. But there isn't. If there was,
extending BBEdit to do tasks like this would be so much easier.
Instead, you have to wrestle with Applescript to do anything of the
sort. It's one of the features I'm really jealous that Textmate has.
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