Hi Ted,

I understand, I too spent some time looking for an approach that was ever
so more slightly automagical. Interested to see what you come up with.

It is possible call a script to populate the text within BBEdit clippings:

 #script /Users/me/example/folder/Script.scpt#

Presumably this could open a dialog to present options before the clipping
is inserted.

Trouble was, I couldn’t see a mechanism to pass arguments to the script
upon execution. As a result every clipping would need it’s own script. This
makes the shortcuts BBEdit provides to edit and create clippings “on the
fly” less useful.

I went with requiring an additional shortcut to extract the options. This
had the possibly useful side effect of allowing the same mechanism to work
on any text selection – not just clipping contents.

Cheers
Ollie

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On 12 May 2015 at 18:19, Gustave Stresen-Reuter <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks for sharing! Not quite what I'm looking for but definitely on the
> right track. Ideally, I'd like something that is triggered when the
> clipping is inserted so I can just keyboard navigate through a dialog
> setting the required parameters. If I ever get any free time (not likely,
> but one can always hope) I'll take what you've done and see if I can work
> it into my own workflow and share that.
>

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