Thanks Jean - these sound interesting options and definitely worth
following. But thew (especially the launch agent approach) made me
thinking: what if I background the quarto process?
I have now written the following script to start the previewer:
#!/bin/bash
quarto preview $BB_DOC_PATH &
pid=$!
pidfile=$(dirname "${BB_DOC_PATH}")/quarto.$BB_DOC_NAME.pid
echo pid: $pid
echo pidfile: $pidfile
echo $pid > $pidfile
But it has two problems:
1) I still have to click "cancel", but the previewer continues running,
which is nice.
2) the file .pid does not contain the pid of the quarto process
The second one, I will solve with quarto, and the first one, I can live
with. It would be nice, to have a message pops up which tells the user to
close the dialog once the preview is visible?
Thanks,
Rainer
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 8:12:56 PM UTC+1 jj wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
>
> I suspect that BBEdit's Script menu will always be blocking because as far
> as I know it uses an XPCService. (This should be checked with Bare Bones
> support though!)
>
> I think of 2 other options that you could try:
>
>
> *Option 1. Use the menubar Script Menu.*
> • Activate the menubar Script Menu in Script Editor > Preferences >
> General > Script Menu.
>
> • Create BBEdit's application scripts directory :
>
> % mkdir -p ~/Library/Scripts/Applications/BBEdit
>
> • Scripts placed in this directory should appear in the menubar Script
> Menu when BBEdit is the frontmost application. Generally they act as if
> they where run from the Script Editor.
>
> • Sometimes this allows you to do things you couldn't do from BBEdit's
> Script menu (like restarting BBEdit for example).
>
> *Option 2. Create a launchAgent that watches the folder containing your
> quarto files and that executes a script whenever a file is saved and thus
> refreshes the preview. *(Replace '<rainer>' with your user account in the
> below paths.)
>
> • Save this launchAgent in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/quarto_watcher.plist
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC -//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN
> http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd>
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
> <key>Label</key>
> <string>quarto_watcher</string>
> <key>ProgramArguments</key>
> <array>
> <string>/Users/<rainer>/Library/Application
> Support/BBEdit/Scripts/quarto_previewer.sh</string>
> </array>
> <key>WatchPaths</key>
> <array>
> <string>/Users/<rainer>/Documents/Quarto</string>
> </array>
> </dict>
> </plist>
>
> • Save this script in ~/Library/Application
> Support/BBEdit/Scripts/quarto_previewer.sh and give it the execution
> permission.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env sh
>
> DOCPATH=$(osascript -e 'tell application "BBEdit" to (URL of first
> document) as string')
> EXTENSION="${DOCPATH##*.}"
>
> #echo $DOCPATH
> #echo $EXTENSION
>
> if [ $EXTENSION == "quarto" ]; then
> /usr/bin/open -a quarto "$DOCPATH"
> fi
>
> • Create the /Users/<rainer>/Documents/Quarto directory. (Or some other
> directory and change the launchAgent accordingly.)
>
> • Start the launchAgent in the terminal with:
>
> % launchctl load
> /Users/<rainer>/Library/LaunchAgents/quarto_watcher.plist
>
> • Now whenever a file with extension ".quarto" is saved in the
> ~/Documents/Quarto directory, the quarto_previewer.sh script should
> execute and open or reload this file in quarto.
>
> HTH
>
> Jean Jourdain
>
> On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 2:52:19 PM UTC+1 Rainer Krug wrote:
>
>> I have an using quarto <https://quarto.org> to render technical
>> documents (it is very nice!) and writing them in BBEdit.
>>
>> Now I have a script which I want to start from BBEdit as I do with all
>> scripts, but this script runs continuously and updates the preview. I would
>> very much like to have this in BBEdit (in the Scripts Menu), but when I
>> start this script, it blocks BBEdit.
>>
>> Is there a way of having that dialog non-blocking? Or is there another
>> way of running that script (at the moment I am running it from a different
>> terminal)?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
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