Great! The env variables were what I was missing. Thanks a million!
Am Sonntag, 12. Mai 2019 18:09:21 UTC+2 schrieb Bruce Van Allen:
>
> Hi Lutz,
>
> Check the BBEdit manual (it's a PDF that downloads so you get
> the latest), starting at page 337 "Filters and Scripts". That
> section explains how BBEdit helps us by providing a set of
> environment variables to scripts that are launched from within BBEdit.
>
> Document State
> For convenience, BBEdit sets some runtime environment
> variables to provide information about the front document’s
> state right before a Unix filter or script is run: ...
>
> Among those environment variables are - yay! - BB_DOC_NAME and
> BB_DOC_PATH.
>
> So here's a quick Perl script that you could start from. This
> opens the front-most file in Safari - I don't have BlueGriffon.
> I saved this as ~/Library/Application
> Support/BBEdit/Scripts/get_BBEdit_Doc_test.pl
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> exec qx(open -a Safari $ENV{BB_DOC_PATH});
>
>
> A shell script would also get those environment variables. So
> you could put this in a file in the same BBEdit Scripts folder:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> open $BB_DOC_PATH -a BlueGriffon
>
>
> Then just assign a keyboard combination to the script.
>
>
> On 5/12/19 at 12:47 AM, [email protected] <javascript:> (Lutz Pietschker)
> wrote:
>
> >Hi Bruce, thanks for the hint. I have no idea how to get the
> >path to the file except through AppleScript, so this is what I
> >came up with:
> >tell application "BBEdit" to set theDoc to file of document 1
> >set thePOSIXPath to (the POSIX path of theDoc)
> >set theCommand to "open '" & thePOSIXPath & "' -a BlueGriffon"
> >do shell script theCommand
> >
> >It is slow, but it works. Thanks again!
> >Lutz
> >
> >Am Samstag, 11. Mai 2019 22:12:24 UTC+2 schrieb Bruce Van Allen:
> >>
> >>Hi Lutz,
> >>Try a simple shell script or Perl script that opens the html
> >>file in BlueGriffin, saved to your BBEdit scripts folder, with
> >>an assigned key combination.
> >>Reply to this list if this would be foreign territory for you;
> >>some experienced guides inhabit this space (but I didn't want
> >>to presume you'd need that).
> >
> --
>
> - Bruce
>
> _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz__ca_
>
>
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