Please instead give the Edit -> Insert -> File Contents... command a try, and 
once you've brought up the file selection sheet, click the "Options" button at 
the lower left-hand corner as both provided options are relevant to your 
desired outcome. :-) 


Regards,

 Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc.             <https://www.barebones.com/>



> On Jan 22, 2022, at 06:27, samar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> When I drag a set of text files from the Finder into an empty text file in 
> BBEdit, the contents of these text files are copied into the new file:
> 
> <start>
> contentsofmyoldfile1
> contentsofmyoldfile2
> contentsofmyoldfile3
> <end>
> 
> This is fine, but how can I have a separator (===), the name of each copied 
> file, and an empty paragraph added before its content? What I need is this:
> 
> <start>
> ===
> myoldfile1.txt
> 
> contentsofmyoldfile1
> ===
> myoldfile2.txt
> 
> contentsofmyoldfile2
> ===
> myoldfile3.txt
> 
> contentsofmyoldfile3
> [etc.]
> <end>
> 
> I assume achieving this would require some scripting knowledge, but alas, I'm 
> not there yet.
> 
> Thanks
> Sam

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