Re: Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

Christopher Stone Thu, 18 Mar 2021 18:23:10 -0700

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<<attachment: Create_Aliases_of_All_Files_Open_in_BBEdit_in_a_Date-Stamped_Folder.scptd.zip>>

On 03/17/2021, at 18:41, Bill Kochman <[email protected]> wrote:

So, I must ask you then. Does the fact that you are taking interest in this mean that there is not just one file somewhere in BBEdit’s folder and file hierarchy where this information is stored?

Hey Bill,

Sam showed you where the file was. It seems my memory was faulty, or it dates back to before the saved-state file existed... :-)

Personally I would not depend upon the saved-state file, as it's mutable and will change right at the moment you don't want it to.

Even if you saved various versions of it, you still have to parse it, extract the file-URLs, convert them into a usable format, and open them.

The attached script will create a date-stamped folder of aliases to all files open in BBEdit at the time the script is run.

Give it a keyboard shortcut like Control-S, and you can create a new save-state on demand.

To open the files go to the saved-state folder, select all the aliases, and hit Cmd-O in the Finder.

It wouldn't be hard to write a script to open the last saved-state, or even one to provide a list of saved-states to pick from.

There are other ways to do this of course, but let's start here.

Best Regards,

Chris

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# Auth: Christopher Stone <[email protected]>

# dCre: 2021/03/18 19:06

# dMod: 2021/03/18 19:06

# Appl: BBEdit, Finder

# Task: Create Aliases of All Files Open in BBEdit in a Date-Stamped Folder.

# Libs: None

# Osax: None

# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @ASObjC, @BBEdit, @Finder, @Saved, @State

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use AppleScript version "2.4" --» Yosemite or later

use framework "Foundation"

use scripting additions

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--» USER SETTING -- Saved State Location

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set bbeditSavedStateFolderPath to "~/Documents/BBEdit Saved-State/"

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set bbeditSavedStateFolderPath to my expandTildeInPath:bbeditSavedStateFolderPath

if itemExists(bbeditSavedStateFolderPath) = false then

my createDirectoryAtPathWithIntermediates:bbeditSavedStateFolderPath

end if

set dateStr to my dateStamp(current date)

set newFolderName to "BBEdit Saved State – " & dateStr

tell application "BBEdit"

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to linefeed

set fList to (file of documents whose on disk is true)

end tell

tell application "Finder"

set destFldr to (make new folder at (POSIX file bbeditSavedStateFolderPath) with properties {name:newFolderName}) as alias

repeat with i in fList

make new alias file at destFldr to i

end repeat

end tell

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--» HANDLERS

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on createDirectoryAtPathWithIntermediates:thePath

set {theResult, theError} to current application's NSFileManager's defaultManager()'s createDirectoryAtPath:thePath ¬

withIntermediateDirectories:true attributes:(missing value) |error|:(reference)

if not (theResult as boolean) then

set errorMsg to theError's localizedDescription() as text

error errorMsg

end if

end createDirectoryAtPathWithIntermediates:

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on dateStamp(theDate)

set dateDelim to "-"

set timeDelim to "."

tell theDate as «class isot» as string to ¬

set {yyyy, mm, dd, hh, mm, ss} to ¬

{its text 1 thru 4, its text 6 thru 7, its text 9 thru 10, its text 12 thru 13, its text 15 thru 16, its text 18 thru 19}

return yyyy & dateDelim & mm & dateDelim & dd & space & hh & timeDelim & mm & timeDelim & ss

end dateStamp

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on expandTildeInPath:tildeBasedPath

set expandedPath to (current application's NSString's stringWithString:tildeBasedPath)'s stringByExpandingTildeInPath

return expandedPath as text

end expandTildeInPath:

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on itemExists(posixPath) --> Boolean output

set posixPath to (current application's NSString's stringWithString:posixPath)'s stringByExpandingTildeInPath

set myNSURL to current application's |NSURL|'s fileURLWithPath:posixPath

set itemExistsBool to (myNSURL's checkResourceIsReachableAndReturnError:(missing value)) as boolean

return itemExistsBool

end itemExists

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