Your question is really interesting to me because I have *hundreds* of stored greps within BBEdit, and they're extensively interactive with many AppleScripts, OSA JavaScripts, and other BBEdit routines that I've developed over a period of quite a few years. However, I'm still using BBEdit 9.6.3 -- in fact the scripting/automation routines I put so much time into (for Web development) were one of the main reasons I stopped upgrading.
In my ancient BBEdit, in the search dialog, there are two little icons that give you search-related popdown menus. The top one, a clock icon, leads to a limited number of recent searches that it remembers automatically. That sounds like what you're referring to. Under it is a little "g" icon that leads to the main list of my saved greps. The last line at the bottom of that long list says "Save...". Does the current BBEdit no longer have the ability to save an arbitrary number of greps for internal search use? Regarding your other comment, there is a flat text file corresponding to that list of saved patterns, and I can describe it to you if that's useful (in fact I have an entire folder of documentation and other material I've collected called BB_Grep_Patterns_Devel). There are some caveats about editing that file directly; it's easy to screw up your BBEdit installation in various ways. I'll describe it if you like, but there's no point in going into all that if the user-saved collection of greps is no longer supported in recent versions of the program. Is it? -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
