On 04/02/2018, at 21:39, Jean-Christophe Helary
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand why the following grep search doesn't work:
Hey Jean-Christophe,
Because you're referencing the wrong object – the window and not the window's
text.
tell application "BBEdit"
tell front text window's text
replace "(?m)(.{50})" using "\\1••••" options {search mode:grep, case
sensitive:false, starting at top:true}
end tell
end tell
BBEdit is very recordable, so when you get stuck like this hit the record
button in the Script Editor (or Script Debugger), switch back to BBEdit and do
your task.
BBEdit is very literal in how it records things, so very often some clean-up is
required.
BUT – more often than not you can find out the correct syntax for things this
way.
Here's an example of a recording:
tell application "BBEdit"
activate
replace "(?m)(.{50})" using "\\1••••" searching in text 1 of text document
1 options {search mode:grep, starting at top:true}
end tell
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Take Care,
Chris
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