Hey David,

You could give ‘Reload from Disk’ a keyboard shortcut in BBEdit's ‘Menus & 
Shortcuts’ prefs if manual activation would work for you.

As Rich mentioned – reloading isn't scriptable – but if you really need it to 
be then either Keyboard Maestro <https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/> or 
FastScripts <https://www.red-sweater.com/fastscripts/> and UI-Scripting would 
probably be the way to go.

(BBEdit doesn't like doing UI-Scripting from its own script menu.)

Here's how to do it with AppleScript and UI-Scripting:

----------------------------------------------------------------
# Auth: Christopher Stone
# dCre: 2018/02/04 21:00
# dMod: 2018/02/04 21:10
# Appl: BBEdit, System Events
# Task: Activate ‘Reload from Disk’ menu item.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @BBEdit, @System_Events, @Activate, 
@Reload_from_Disk, @Menu, @Item
----------------------------------------------------------------

tell application "System Events"
    tell application process "BBEdit"
        tell menu bar 1
            tell menu bar item "File"
                tell menu 1
                    tell menu item "Reload from Disk"
                        if enabled then
                            perform action "AXPress"
                        end if
                    end tell
                end tell
            end tell
        end tell
    end tell
end tell

----------------------------------------------------------------

Rich also mentioned that BBEdit is very good about reloading files when the 
disk content changes.

But ‘Automatically refresh documents as they change on disk’ must be turned 
[ON] in the ‘Application’ preference panel.

I have seen rare occasions when this didn't work properly with certain 
documents, although NOT so far with BBEdit 12.

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Best Regards,
Chris

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