Thanks, Rich. At first I thought, wow this is complicated. But you make it easy. I shall of course have fun when I push beyond simple find/replace, but you've given me a great start. — D
On Monday, May 24, 2021 at 8:44:50 PM UTC-6 [email protected] wrote: > On 24 May 2021, at 22:37, Christopher Stone wrote: > > > On 05/24/2021, at 19:11, Duncan Thorne <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> I'm pretty clueless with Applescript so please bear with me. I want > >> to copy text from a Safari table, paste it into a new BBEdit window > >> and do some text manipulation, mostly finding and replacing. > > > > > > Hey Duncan, > > > > This task is pretty simple if you know how, and a real head-scratcher > > if you don't. > > > > It's great to be able to record AppleScript, but it often produces > > semi-useless results – unless you savvy AppleScript enough to be > > able to rewrite the recording and pick out the good bits. > > > > I almost never use it, BUT it sometimes comes in really handy when I > > just can't figure out the syntax for something. > > > > Appended is a script that will: > > > > - Copy the selected text in Safari. > > - Create a new BBEdit document with said text. > > - Reset the size and position of the new document. > > - Do one regex-based find/replace on the document. > > - You can add more replace statements as needed. > > This is a good script. Some feedback: as a matter of best practices and > future proofing, avoid targeting windows (or elements of them). > > "make new text document" will return a reference to the document just > created. > > The "text" property of a document provides access to the text without > going through the windowing system. It's also faster and avoids > complications that can arise when the 1:1 relationship between documents > and windows is not in effect (as has been the case since BBEdit started > supporting multiple documents per window, back whenever that was). > > Thus: > > set myDoc to make new text document with properties { text: > tableContent } > > followed by > > tell text of myDoc > -- do the replace in here > end tell > > is recommended. > > R. > > -- > Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc. > <[email protected]> <https://www.barebones.com/> > > Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they sedate me. > -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitter.com/bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/2439df04-605d-4a21-af89-f01181144e46n%40googlegroups.com.
