Hey guys, I use BBEdit's regexp search patterns a lot for text processing, and have a routine set of custom regexp patterns I use, and switch between, a lot.
However, when processing text, it's a bit of a pain having to go to the search window, click the G button, then choose the next pattern just to use it to process a text item. Far too much switching with the mouse and menu hunting etc. What I'd really like to do is to basically map a bunch of my search pattern presets to keyboard shortcuts, much as you can do for clippings or text filters in their own palette windows. I don't think there's currently any way to do this in BBEdit, and as recalling patterns seems to be only done by selecting them from the pattern menu in the search window, it doesn't lend itself to automating. Edit: having a poke around at the scripting possibilities, it seems the "Sort lines using saved grep" script example shows a way of scripting the recall of grep presets, and as you can assign scripts to hotkeys, that would seem the way to go at this time. (Although a "Patterns" palette window would be a nicer and more comfortable way of doing this...) Any other options/ideas? Cheers! (at least the process of writing this post has brought forth some more options to explore). -- 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]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
