> Right. I explained that already. Perhaps my explanation wasn't clear?
No it was fine. It just took a bit to sink in ;-)
> I also explained that the major problem remaining is that clippings EAT
> trailing whitespace even if they themselves CONTAIN whitespace. That takes a
> little working around; the script appended does so.
I ran into something that must have been that in one of my attempts.
I REALLY appreciate your appended script. I'm reading through it now
to see if I can sort out what it's doing. The language constructs are
foreign to me, but I should be able to puzzle through the logic.
Thanks again,
v
On Aug 23, 9:34 am, Christopher Stone <listmeis...@thestoneforge.com>
wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2011, at 17:20, verdonv wrote:
>
> > After looking through the BBEdit script library, I realize the problem is
> > that the 'replace' actually returns an integer that represents the number
> > of instances of the pattern changed, and not the changed string.
>
> Right. I explained that already. Perhaps my explanation wasn't clear?
>
> > I know it seems silly, but given this, and the way that Clippings work, I
> > think I'll have to fudge this so that the applescript does the replace on
> > the selection, then copies the modified selection and returns it to the
> > clipping, so the clipping can insert it...
>
> I also explained that the major problem remaining is that clippings EAT
> trailing whitespace even if they themselves CONTAIN whitespace. That takes a
> little working around; the script appended does so.
>
> > Anyways, this is an applescript question and not a BBEdit question, so I'll
> > take the discussion to a more appropriate forum.
>
> Any questions about scripting BBEdit are appropriate to this forum.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> tell application "BBEdit"
> try
> tell front text window
> tell text of selection
> replace "(\\w+)" using ¬
> "[\\1]" options {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false}
> set selText to its contents
> set chrOfst to its characterOffset
> set selLen to its length
> set selLen2 to selLen
> end tell
> repeat while selText ends with return
> set selText to text 1 thru -2 of selText
> set selLen to selLen - 1
> end repeat
> if selLen2 ≠ selLen then
> select (characters chrOfst thru (chrOfst + selLen - 1))
> end if
> set sel to contents of text of selection
> return sel
> end tell
> on error errMsg number errNum
> set sep to "=============================="
> set e to sep & return & "Error: " & errMsg & return & sep & return ¬
> & "Error Number: " & errNum & return & sep
> beep
> display dialog e
> end try
> end tell
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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