I can't speak for BareBones obviously, but I am sure they have read section 2.4 of this:
http://kapeli.com/guide/guide
And this:
http://bbedit-hints.tumblr.com/post/23037132326/using-bbedit-with-dash-app-for-code-lookup
which is what I used before Dash support was added to BBEdit. Maybe you can try
that and see whether the results are different.
Best
François
On Dec 16, 2013, at 5:29 PM, Rod Buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2013, at 10:18 AM, François Schiettecatte
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I would be curious what the outcome is.
>>
>> I usually get good results but sometimes they are all over the map. Maybe it
>> is a term selection issue in BBEdit, it will send 'variable.upper()' when I
>> just select 'upper' but will send '.upper' if I include the leading dot
>> (this is in python and my explanation is tortuous.
>
> BBEdit does not pass docset info to Dash. The more you think about it, there
> is no way for them to know exactly what to send.
>
> I ended up disabling builtin Dash support using the expert pref, and added
> custom handlers in Language prefs for what I need.
>
> I'll keep an eye open --- maybe someday the BBEdit and Dash folks can get
> together and get it fully implemented.
>
>> On Dec 16, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Rod Buchanan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 16, 2013, at 1:14 AM, Ben Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yep, same problem here. The new built-in Dash support doesn't appear to
>>>> account for the current language at all and the old custom language
>>>> override method is hit and miss (seems t to work for Perl, not for Python
>>>> for example).
>>>
>>> Thanks ... glad to know it's not just me. :)
>>>
>>> I just send an email to [email protected].
>
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