Oh, excellent stuff - thank you both. Now as I try to figure out how I'll script this, my initial ideas are fairly cumbersome. Yeah, I could bring up the Find dialog, paste in the search criteria and [ ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ G ], but is there a repeatable way using a named saved search or something? I was hoping a Text Factory would have something as simple as a Find and Copy command, but it seems to insist on a Replace. I guess I could find (myInitialLines)(thenEverythingToTheEnd) and replace with \1\2\1 - which would result in copying my initial non-blank lines to the end of the document - but that seems kinda kludgy. Maybe I have to create something in applescript along the lines of Tell application BBEdit to find blahblah and copy to clipboard...
Thanks again... - eric On Saturday, August 14, 2021 at 3:10:09 PM UTC-7 Christopher Waterman wrote: > My apologies. Full text View should be full search window. > > --Chris > > On Aug 14, 2021, at 3:07 PM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Yeah, ⌘ ⌥ ⌃ G will search and select all. > Then copy and paste. > > Also you can ⌘ ⌥ F to bring up quick search which is a little less > cumbersome than the full text view. > > I’d like to recommend this post, it’s good stuff. > > http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2014/12/bbedit-finding/ > > > --Chris > > On Aug 14, 2021, at 1:48 PM, Patrick Woolsey <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The Find command is normally the easiest way to locate any text which > matches a particular Grep pattern, and you can then just copy the matched > (& selected) text. (Please bear in mind that you are never _obligated_ to > perform a replace after a search.) > > In case the above isn't what you're trying to accomplish, then it would be > helpful if you could provide an actual example, e.g. a pair of "before" and > "after" documents > > > Regards, > > Patrick Woolsey > == > Bare Bones Software, Inc. <https://www.barebones.com/> > > > > On Aug 13, 2021, at 22:30, e2o <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Howdy! Is there an easy way to copy a chunk of text matched with a regular > expression to the clipboard only? No search/replace. > > > I have an expression that selects everything at the beginning of a > document up to but not including the first blank line. I need to copy this > text and copy it to the bottom of the document. I can't use Process Lines > Including because it uses \A to match beginning of document, which doesn't > fly there. > > > So my expression is: > > \A.*\r(^\S.*\r)+ > > > How do I just copy the matched text to clipboard? This needs to be > scriptable with Keyboard Maestro - so standard menu items and keyboard > shortcuts would be nice, but I might be able to muddle through AppleScript > or similar. > > > Thanks! > > > - eric > > > -- > 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/E633B534-D1B9-4649-80BD-CB02804D6E16%40barebones.com > . > > -- 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/37247555-dd74-474d-b758-05829cc74281n%40googlegroups.com.
