To edit saved searches in BBEdit 9, go to BBEdit menu (upper right of Mac's menu bar) > Preferences > Text Search (near the bottom of the list). There you'll see a list called "Grep patterns" along with associated buttons for "Change" and "Remove..." that let you edit the items in the list. I'm not sure what happens with non-Grep searches, because I generally don't care about saving or editing those long-term.
I've been crafting complex scripts for years that utilize BBEdit saved Grep searches, in conjunction with various AppleScripts and OSA JavaScripts. If you're curious to see the list (which is a clue to what's possible with that combination)... I just slapped together a page with screenshots of my BBEdit saved searches list. It's at http://sanstudio.com/tech/BBEdit_Saved_Searches.html. <http://sanstudio.com/tech/BBEdit_Saved_Searches.html> It looks like a list of scripts, I guess, but it's actually my saved searches list, which is what triggers (or in some cases is utilized by/interacts with) all those scripts. (I have a separate long hierarchical list for all my BBEdit pure-AppleScripts.) I wonder if anyone else has ever created a complex structure like that based on saved regexp searches? In retrospect it may not have been such a good idea: they all work, but it was very time-consuming, and I'm guessing it's very fragile and would all come crashing down if I tried to upgrade from BBEdit 9 and Snow Leopard. <http://Sanstudio.com> Lawrence -- 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].
