If you add the text factory as a Text Filter then you can assign it a keyboard 
shortcut. Put it in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/ and then 
you can run it from the Text > Text Filters menu or assign a keyboard shortcut 
in Settings... on the Menus & Shortcuts tab.

h/t Christopher Stone.

[fletcher]

> On May 22, 2023, at 8:24 AM, Mark Mayberry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Kaveh,
> 
> YES! Thank you! I tried the same procedure in Text Factory and it worked 
> PERFECTLY! Quick question: Is it possible to set up a shortcut keystroke in 
> BBEdit that (when pressed) will run my newly created TextFactory?
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Mark
> 
> On 22 May 2023, at 10:20, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark
> 
> I think Text Factory is indeed what you need. it is not based on keystrokes, 
> but BBEdit actions that are carried out one after another. Here is a glimpse 
> of one I made to convert VCF to CSV. I am using just regular expressions, but 
> you can use any BBEdit command.
> 
> Regards
> Kaveh
> 
> 
> On Mon, 22 May 2023 at 16:07, Mark Mayberry <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Dear Rich,
>> 
>> Thanks!  I have not yet explored “Text Factory” but will give it a whirl.  
>> Since we are talking about an internal BBEdit set of keystrokes, it might be 
>> better to stay “in house.”
>> 
>> Yours,
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> On 22 May 2023, at 9:10, Rich Siegel wrote:
>> 
>> > On 22 May 2023, at 10:04, Mark Mayberry wrote:
>> >
>> >> I am attempting to set up create a macro that would automate the process 
>> >> of
>> >> cleaning up a block of text as I import it into BBEdit. I have 
>> >> successfully
>> >> created a macro that selects the Text Menu in BBEdit to (1) Straighten
>> >> Quotes, (2) Strip Trailing Whitespace, and (3) Normalize Line Endings.
>> >> These steps are easy.
>> >> [...]
>> >
>> > I don't know anything about Keyboard Maestro, but have you considered 
>> > using a Text Factory for this?
>> >
>> > Start with File => New => Text Factory and go from there.
>> >
>> > R.
>> >
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