Added a test to 00) Start Quarto Preview.sh so the previewer will not be
launched more than once.
#!/bin/bash
pid=$(ps -A -mm | grep -v grep | grep
"/Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js preview ${BB_DOC_PATH}" | awk '{print
$1}')
if [ -z "$pid" ]; then
nohup quarto preview "$BB_DOC_PATH" >& /dev/null &
fi
Jean
On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 4:48:57 PM UTC+1 jj wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
>
> Good to see your are getting somewhere.
>
> I tested this on my setup and it seems to do what you are after (no pid
> file needed, no dialog):
>
> Start quarto preview:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> nohup quarto preview "$BB_DOC_PATH" >& /dev/null &
>
> Stop quarto preview:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> pid=$(ps -A -mm | grep -v grep | grep
> "/Applications/quarto/bin/quarto.js preview ${BB_DOC_PATH}" | awk '{print
> $1}')
> kill -9 $pid
>
> HTH,
>
> Jean Jourdain
> On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 11:51:17 AM UTC+1 Rainer Krug wrote:
>
>> OK - Please see the scripts here:
>> https://github.com/rkrug/R-BBEdit/tree/main/R.bbpackage/Contents/Scripts/Quarto
>>
>> Start quart preview:
>> ```
>> #!/bin/bash
>> quarto preview "$BB_DOC_PATH" &
>>
>> pid=$(ps -A -mm | grep -v grep | grep "quarto" | grep "preview
>> ${BB_DOC_PATH}" | awk '{print $1}')
>>
>> pidfile=$(dirname "${BB_DOC_PATH}")/quarto.$BB_DOC_NAME.pid
>>
>> echo pid: $pid
>>
>> echo pidfile: "$pidfile"
>> ```
>>
>> and
>>
>> Stop quarto preview:
>> ```
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> pidfile="$(dirname "${BB_DOC_PATH}")/quarto.$BB_DOC_NAME.pid"
>>
>> pkill -F "$pidfile"
>>
>> rm -f "$pidfile"
>> ```
>>
>> They run nicely, only the initial backgrounding is not working and I have
>> to Cancel the dialog box.
>>
>> Also, I do not see a dialog box in the Stop script.
>>
>> But I am happy with how it works (although automatic backgrounding ad
>> closing ot=f the dialog box would be nice).
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rainer
>> On Thursday, March 24, 2022 at 10:30:44 AM UTC+1 Rainer Krug wrote:
>>
>>> Shellcheck is great - thanks. I am using it now!
>>>
>>> Concerning disown: I tried to add the `disown -a` command, but still had
>>> to quit with the Cancel button.
>>>
>>> On Wednesday, March 23, 2022 at 7:10:23 PM UTC+1 Sam Hathaway wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don’t recall the details of this, but you may need to disown the
>>>> quarto process so that bash doesn’t wait around for it to finish before
>>>> exiting.
>>>>
>>>> P.S.: Shell scripting is a minefield and I suggest taking a look at
>>>> shellcheck <https://www.shellcheck.net/> if you haven’t already.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> -sam
>>>>
>>>> On 23 Mar 2022, at 4:55, 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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