On May 18, 2016, at 15:20, Steve Piercy <steve.piercy....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Another option is the BBEdit reference "Searching with Grep", which I
> bookmarked and view in a web browser because the Apple Help viewer has a
> terrible UI.
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Hey Steve,
Good idea, although not everyone will place BBEdit in the /Applications folder.
Here's how to script it and let the OSX find the app for you.
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Best Regards,
Chris
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# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2016/05/18 17:08
# dMod: 2016/05/18 17:13
# Appl: BBEdit & Safari
# Task: Open BBEdit's “Searching with Grep” Chapter in Safari
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @, BBEdit, @Safari, @Open, @Help
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set grepHelp to "/Contents/Resources/BBEdit%20Help/index_grep.htm"
set shCMD to "mdfind -onlyin /Applications/ 'kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier ==
\"com.barebones.bbedit\"'"
set bbeditApp to do shell script shCMD
set grepHelpPath to "file://" & bbeditApp & grepHelp
tell application "Safari"
activate
make new document with properties {URL:grepHelpPath}
# My preferred window location and size – change to suit.
set bounds of front window to {228, 23, 1542, 1196}
end tell
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