On Oct 22, 2014, at 04:41, Doug Lerner <[email protected]> wrote:
> 3. Getting back to the (sigh) Find functionality I miss, in the new non-modal
> Find dialog it drives me crazy that I can't easily "search from the top."
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Hey Doug,
We hashed much of this stuff out ad nauseam when BBEdit 10 was released, and
you might pick up some useful pointers by searching for those conversations.
I preferred the old modal find dialog too, but I understand the devs are
dealing with a whole new set of APIs with various strengths and weaknesses and
not taking their coffee-fugue out on me personally.
We're in luck though, because it's quite often possible to get BBEdit to work
your way with a little AppleScript.
The appended script will search-from-top with regex and case-INsensitive. It
saves the last used search-string independently from the find-dialog.
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Best Regards,
Chris
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2014/10/22 20:45
# dMod: 2014/10/22 20:57
# Appl: BBEdit
# Task: Search with RegEx & Starting-at-Top
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Search, @Find, @Starting-at-Top
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set bbFndStrFile to (path to home folder as text) & ".bbfndstr"
try
set bbSvdFndStr to read file bbFndStrFile
on error
set bbSvdFndStr to ""
end try
set bbFndStr to text returned of (display dialog "Enter RegEx Find String:"
default answer bbSvdFndStr)
# Save search-string
if bbFndStr ≠ bbSvdFndStr then do shell script "echo " & quoted form of
(bbFndStr & "\\c") & ¬
" > " & quoted form of (POSIX path of bbFndStrFile)
tell application "BBEdit"
tell text of text window 1
find bbFndStr options {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, starting at
top:true} with selecting match
end tell
end tell
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