Have you tried Clippings in BBEdit yet? A Clipping is just
a way to quickly add a chunk of commonly used text into your
document. It also works with what you have selected before
choosing the clipping.
For example, you select 'a few words' in your document,
choose your Double Paren Clipping and, it converts to '((a few words))'.
You can access your Clippings in the top menu under the
black C icon. There's a Clippings Palette you can keep open for
easy access (Window>Palettes>Clippings). Or, you can also assign
a keyboard shortcut to each of your Clippings.
Your example Double Paren Clipping would just be a plain
text file that contains..
((#SELECT#))
Make new ones by starting a new file in BBE, write your
clipping and choose Save as Clipping under the Clipping icon.
Under the Clippings icon you can choose Open Clippings Folder to
see all your Clipping files and organize them into different
Sets or subfolders.
There are a bunch of other placeholders you can use besides
#SELECT# like, #FILE#, #DATE# #CLIPBOARD#, etc.
See Chapter 12 in BBEdit Manual.
- Den.
10/19/13 8:26 PM, [email protected] (Oliver Taylor) apparently typed:
I'm attempting to create a script that surrounds the selected text with paired
characters - in a smart way.
For example, if you want to surround the selection with
<selection> then just enter < and the script will do the right
thing. I've got that working, but I'd love to make it a bit better.
For example, I might to surround the selection like this:
<<<selection>>>. Or like this: #<selection># . Or like this:
(( *selection* ))
Can anyone help me figure this out? Maybe this is beyond a simple script like
this?
Here's what I've got so far...
--Display Dialog and Get Input
display dialog "Surround Selection With..." default answer ""
--Get Answer & Return Comment
set surround to (text returned of result)
tell application "BBEdit"
try
-- test to see if input has a matching character - {}()[] etc.
-- then surround the selection with the pair
if surround is in {"{"} then
set selection to "{" & selection & "}"
else if surround is in {"("} then
set selection to "(" & selection & ")"
else if surround is in {"["} then
set selection to "[" & selection & "]"
else if surround is in {"“"} then
set selection to "“" & selection & "”"
else if surround is in {"‘"} then
set selection to "‘" & selection & "’"
else if surround is in {"<"} then
set selection to "<" & selection & ">"
else
-- if there's no match then just surround with the input on both sides
set selection to surround & selection & surround
end if
end try
end tell
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