You should quote all paths otherwise if they contain spaces the script
won't do what you expect.
On Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 9:55:10 AM UTC+1 Rainer Krug wrote:
> 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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