On 04/14/2021, at 11:28, Rich Siegel <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> This should work:
>
> tell app "BBEdit"
> activate
> open file_path
> select insertion point after last character of document 1
> end tell
>
> (It's best to always target documents, rather than windows; though that's not
> the proximate issue here. "document 1" is always the active document.)
Hey Folks,
Here's another method:
tell application "BBEdit"
tell text of front document
select insertion point after it
end tell
end tell
I nearly always prefer to use tell-blocks to reference objects rather than
one-liners, because frequently when I forget to do so I end up having to
refactor my code when I add or change something.
For this use-case I might do something like this:
tell application "BBEdit"
tell front document
tell its text to select insertion point after it
end tell
end tell
But if I will take time to write the code “correctly”:
tell application "BBEdit"
tell front document
tell its text
select insertion point after it
end tell
end tell
end tell
Then I have no problem coming back in later and doing more with either the
document, or the text, or both.
Probably 8 times out of 10 I'll regret not using the above construct, because a
short time later I'll be modifying it to something on the order of this:
tell application "BBEdit"
tell front document
tell its text
set after it to linefeed & "Some more text..."
select insertion point after it
end tell
end tell
end tell
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Best Regards,
Chris
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