JJ
Works great thank you.
> On Aug 24, 2025, at 8:27 AM, jj <goo...@mixio.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> This applescript seems to do what you want :
>
> tell application "BBEdit"
> try
> tell first document of front window
> set vSelectionEnd to (characterOffset of its window's
> selection) - 1
> set vRegex to "\\\\[A-Za-z0-9_
> \\s]*(?:\\s+\"[^\"]*\")?\\s*(\\[(?:[^\\[\\]]+|(?1))*\\])(?:(\\s*=\\s*)(?P<function_name>[a-zA-Z0-9_!?]+))?"
> set vOptions to {search mode:grep, wrap around:false,
> backwards:true}
> set vResult to find vRegex searching in it options
> vOptions
> if vResult's found then
> set vSelectionStart to characterOffset of
> vResult's found object
> else
> error "Pattern not found."
> end if
> select its characters vSelectionStart thru vSelectionEnd
> end tell
> on error aMessage number aErrorNumber
> if aErrorNumber ≠ -128 then -- Error number -128 (User
> Cancelled).
> display dialog aMessage
> else
> return
> end if
> end try
> end tell
>
> Successfully tested against those expressions (courtesy of Claude):
>
> \section [main]
> \config "default settings" [database] = connect
> \path [logs]
> \module [auth[user]] = login_handler
> \service [web_server] = nginx
> \handler "error pages" [404[custom]] = not_found!
> \backup [files] = backup_job
> \system [network[tcp[port]]] = handle_connections?
> \data "user info" [profiles] = user_manager
> \temp [cache[memory[buffer]]] = cache_clear!
>
> HTH,
>
> Jean Jourdain
> On Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 2:02:53 AM UTC+2 Todd Ingalls wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am working on something in an esoteric language and have a Function
>> Pattern that works great
>> \\[A-Za-z0-9_
>> \s]*(?:\s+"[^"]*")?\s*(\[(?:[^\[\]]+|(?1))*\])(?:(\s*=\s*)(?P<function_name>[a-zA-Z0-9_!?]+))?
>>
>> What I want to be able to do is from wherever my cursor is to search
>> backwards and find the beginning of this function definition and then select
>> all the text from where my cursor was to the beginning of the function.
>>
>> I can use find previous with the grep pattern and that will select that
>> function but not the text from where my cursor was. I can also use Reveal
>> Start in Go->Functions to move the cursor to the beginning of the previous
>> function. I just can't seem to figure out how to quite accomplish what I
>> want in AppleScript. Any thoughts would be appreciated
>>
>
>
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