Hi Chris,
I just noticed that you too use T-E+. I sing the praises of it every day
and it's a big reason I'm still at Mojave, the last 32-bit compatible
version of the OS. I wonder what happened to Tom Bender, the guy behind it.
I've found no answer on Google.
Cheers,
Duncan
On Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 4:30:08 PM UTC-6 listmei...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 05/25/2021, at 23:19, Duncan Thorne <dunc...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here's a sample line from my script where things go wrong:
>
> *tell* *front* *text window's* *text*
>
> *replace* "2021
>
> \$" using " \$" options {search mode:*grep*, case sensitive:*false*,
> starting at top:*true*} -- the idea being to take out a line break and
> replace it with a tab.
>
> *end* *tell*
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Hey Duncan,
>
> Backslash is the escape character in AppleScript, so when you need to
> write it as a literal you have to *escape* the escape character.
>
> *set* myDollarSign *to* "\\$"
>
> I *know* this is often quite confusing to neophyte AppleScripters, so
> please forgive me for forgetting to mention it explicitly.
>
> For future references here's how you'd write the regular expression
> in AppleScript:
>
> *tell* *application* "BBEdit"
> *tell* *front* *document*
> *replace* "(2021)\\n(\\$)" using "\\1\\t\\2" options {search mode:
> *grep*, case sensitive:*false*, starting at top:*true*}
> *end* *tell*
> *end* *tell*
>
> If you take the literal strings (between the quotes) and replace the "\\"
> with "\" as a literal string in BBEdit you'll get unescaped version
> that BBEdit wants.
>
> A perhaps simpler trick to see the literal string is to copy it to the
> clipboard like so:
>
> *set the clipboard to* "(2021)\\n(\\$)"
>
> --> (2021)\n(\$)
>
> The part after “--> ” is the pasted result.
>
> “--> ” is a writing convention for indicating the result of an AppleScript.
>
> I too am a long time user of Tex-Edit Plus and will sorely miss it down
> the road.
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>
>
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