Dear Chris,
Thanks for the sample AppleScript. I have Sal Soghoian’s AppleScript
1-2-3 book as a reference, but it’s a little hard for me to wrap my
head around this “human language” approach. However, I have
implemented several short AppleScripts that I use with BetterTouchTool
and my Stream Deck. In the mean time, I added the GREP command that Neil
suggested, and “Boom!” IT WORKED!
At this point, I have a growing Text Factory that performs a variety of
edits on manuscripts that I must edit.
Previously, I had been saving the GREP commands and using them in the
Find and Replace window of BBEdit. However, it is much quicker to
string them together in one Text Factory.
I appreciate the help!
Yours,
Mark
On 24 May 2023, at 18:42, Christopher Stone wrote:
On May 24, 2023, at 07:16, Mark Mayberry <markmaybe...@gmail.com>
wrote:
However, I cannot figure out which Text Factory command is the
equivalent of simply pressing BBEdit Text (Menu) >> Remove Line
Breaks.
Hey Mark,
Surprisingly there isn't one...
You have to roll-your-own via a RegEx, AppleScript-filter, or
text-filter.
I tend to turn to AppleScript for this sort of thing.
Note how you can mix and match AppleScript and Text Factories. In this
instance it's easy enough to employ BBEdit's own 'remove line breaks'
command.
Glad you're enjoying the Mac and BBEdit ( and Keyboard Maestro :).
-Chris
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# Auth: Christopher Stone <scriptmeis...@thestoneforge.com>
# dCre: 2023/05/24 18:30
# dMod: 2023/05/24 18:30
# Appl: BBEdit, System Events
# Task: Run a Specific Text Factory and ‘remove line breaks’ on
the Front Document.
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @BBEdit, @System_Events, @Text-Factory,
@Remove_Line_Breaks
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set textFactoryFile to "~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text
Filters/Text Factories/TEST.textfactory"
tell application "System Events" to set textFactoryFile to (POSIX path
of disk item textFactoryFile)
tell application "BBEdit"
set frontDoc to front text document
apply text factory textFactoryFile to frontDoc
tell frontDoc's text
remove line breaks
end tell
end tell
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