Re: Compare Two Front Documents?
Hey Bee,
On 11/25/08, Bee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
'Compare Two Front Documents' places the two documents side by
side and the result window at the bottom. Most of the time the
lines in the documents are too wide to see the differences
while the windows are side by side.
Is there a preference to stack the windows?
I have a script that diffs the two front documents; it shows the
two docs wide one above the other, and places the Differences
window on my second screen. But the script doesn't show anything
about window location options.
I don't see a Preferences setting that addresses this; but
window arrangement is mostly covered under the the Windows --
Arrange... Arrange Windows dialog (in BBEdit 9.0.2 -- I think it
was similar in 8.x).
I think the way I got the arrangement I wanted was by doing a
diff so the two docs and the Differences window are showing, and
THEN Arranging windows: the dialog is slightly different from
how it appears with just a single doc window in front. See if
that works.
Here's my script in case you could use it:
[Watch out for email line-breaking!]
tell application BBEdit
activate
set cOptions to {ignore leading spaces:false, ignore
trailing spaces:false, ignore extra spaces:false, case sensitive:true}
set doc1date to modification date of document 1
set doc2date to modification date of document 2
if doc1date doc2date then
set new_win to text window 1
set old_win to text window 2
else
set new_win to text window 2
set old_win to text window 1
end if
set cResult to compare new_win against old_win options cOptions
if not differences found of cResult then
display dialog reason for no differences of cResult
buttons {OK} ¬
default button OK with icon note
end if
end tell
HTH
Best,
- Bruce
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Re: Auto Save Default Window
On 12/4/08, ptackbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This option manually saves the default window position, but I want BBEdit to *always* remember it's window size and position each time I end the program. I don't want to have to manually invoke that menu command just before I close the program. I'd love BBEdit to support this natively, but if there were a way to invoke the Save Default Window command via AppleScript, I'd be happy. Are you familiar with these? Preferences - Text Files - Honor Saved State Preferences - Text Files - Save Document State HTH Best, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz__ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Auto Save Default Window
On 12/5/08, Seth McFarland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Textmate (Mac), Coda (Mac), Notepad++ (Windows) and UltraEdit (Windows) all work the way I've described. In doing some testing I see that SubEthaEdit and Textpad work in a similar way to BBEdit. So apparently there is not a universal behavior. Yes. I'd still like to know if there is some way to make BBEdit invoke the Save Default Window on each program close. I tried some GUI AppleScripts but didn't have much luck. I don't recall you saying this before, but see below. On 5-Dec-2008, at 07:54, Seth McFarland wrote: I'm not sure how they are contradictory at all. My desire is for BBEdit to function the way the vast majority ( 99%?) of all Mac applications work. It's when you wrap your ignorance in arrogance like this that leads me (and others?) to almost ignore the opportunity to give you suggestions. Anyway, you are asking for behavior that seems inconsistent and contradictory, perhaps because it wasn't stated clearly. But MOVING ON, here's a _partial_ solution, based on your latest request (above): 1. Set a menu command for Save Default Window. 2. Record an Applescript of simply calling that menu command. 3. Save the script in the ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Menu Scripts folder, named BBEdit•Quit BBEdit (no quotes). But let me caution you: - In previous messages you refer to the main BBEdit window. No such thing. Maybe you mean front-most. - If your settings make BBEdit save state and honor saved state, individual documents should open the way they've been last modified, regardless of BBEdit-wide preference settings and new-doc settings. HTH Best, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz__ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Grep Pattern
On 12/19/08 at 9:49 AM, thepickled...@gmail.com (Chris) wrote: Thanks Patrick! Seems there are many solutions with grep. Are there any good books or online tutorials for learning grep? 1. THE Reference: Mastering Regular Expressions, by Jeffrey Friedl, O'Reilly Associates. 2. Very useful: BBEdit Manual HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
RE: Automatically Reload Documents
On 12/31/08 at 10:17 AM, dave.fi...@gmail.com (Dave Fitch) wrote: What would be nice would be if there was some way to get BBEdit to reload open documents from an FTP server...[Or can BBEdit do this and I have missed it?] I think you've missed it. Both of the following work over here: 1. When starting up BBEdit, it re-loads files that were open via FTP when BBEdit last quit. 2. Files opened via FTP are listed under Files - Open Recent. Are those what you meant? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: default font based on filetype/suffix?
On 1/23/09 at 9:58 AM, jjcr...@myuw.net (Jon Crump) wrote: Seems like this ought to be possible but I haven't worked out how. I'd like to be able to open code files (with .py, .js, .html or what have you suffixes) In one typeface and textfiles (.txt, or no suffix) in another. Is this possible? I like to have certain types of file look different on screen, perhaps for the same reason you want yours to open with fonts differing. Here's what I do: I use Languages preferences to a) map file suffixes to languages, and then b) for each language important to me, click Options to set things like background color and text color to distinct combinations. Tying the color schemes to file suffixes makes this work even when I didn't create the file originally. Differing background colors let me quickly distinguish template files, data tables, and program code. This doesn't do quite what you ask, because the the Languages preferences don't provide font choices. But it might be another way to get what you need. HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Option Select Line Jumps
On 3/3/09 at 6:19 AM, mapping...@gmail.com (mappingman) wrote: Selecting a line of text, using the option click in the left margin method, will jump to a different line and select that line if it is identical to the one you are trying to select. This is very annoying behavior. Is there a way to turn this OFF? I see the same behavior, but I think there are two things happening: 1. Selecting a line by clicking in the left margin is an option under Preferences - Editing: General - Allow single-click line selection. I don't find anything in the docs about using the Option key with this. 2. Clicking the left margin with the Option key down causes BBEdit to search for the next identical line. This is independent of whether single-click line selection is enabled. If there is no identical line, the wrap-around search symbol flashes, and the selection doesn't go anywhere. So far I haven't found anything in the docs about this Jump to Next Identical Line capability, but I can see how it would be very handy. HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Option Select Line Jumps
On 3/3/09 at 12:49 PM, argent...@mac.com (Dennis) wrote: Option-double clicking on a single word triggers the Search - Find Selected Text command. You can do the same thing for a full line with Option-triple click. Hmm. Not in my BBEdit (9.1.1). And, simply clicking once in the left margin with the option-key gets the effect of jumping to the next identical line. This is probably all explained in the docs, but I've run out of time at the moment after searching on option-click, option, and select line. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Option Select Line Jumps
On 3/4/09 at 12:13 PM, mapping...@gmail.com (mappingman) wrote: The way to select a line has always been to option click the left margin, until now. Sorry, not over here. I recall considerable happiness on this list when BBSW introduced the preference option to enable clicking in the left margin to select a line (with no key pressed). There was also some adjustment needed over how clicking the margin to select a line handled soft-wrapped lines. That was sometime back in v. 7 or 8. How's that for a narrow range of time? I found the printed manual from v. 6 and it's not mentioned there -- nor is option-clicking the left margin mentioned in its description of ways to select text. The rest of my manuals are packed away on the old program install CDs. Anyway, it's really a sincere question to ask why you want option-click when you get the desired result just from click. Perhaps there are fine answers. But even if option-clicking the left margin DID select the adjacent line in a previous version of BBEdit, you haven't lost the functionality, just the keypress. I'm guessing that the jump-to-next-identical-line behavior when option-clicking the left margin is new, and before that the option key didn't do anything when the left margin was clicked. That would explain both your and my experiences (assuming the Allow single-click line selection preference was checked). - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: [ANN] LottoCal 1.0
On 4/1/09 at 8:54 AM, sie...@barebones.com (Rich Siegel) wrote: Hi all, We have a new product announcement today: LottoCal 1.0. I downloaded it from the link Disk Image: (1.2TB) Download Now. I can see from a quick look through the code (with BBEdit, natch) that you've included the usual BBSW Ponies module. From that, I'm probably not alone in expecting that version 1.1 will provide advance results of horse-racing and other equestrian competitions. Great work!!! - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: CSS Autocomplete
On 4/23/09 at 5:36 AM, plw...@wisc.edu (Peter Weil) wrote:
[Textmate is ]smart enough to overwrite the auto-inserted one. If you
type an opening character and then delete it using backward delete...
then the auto-inserted character will also be deleted... It is also
possible to wrap a selection in an open/close character by selecting
text and typing the opening character. For example if you type foo,
select it and type (then TextMate will make it (foo) placing the caret
after the ending parentheses.
Without pressing a control key at the same time as the '('?
Ew. That would be a terrible violation of standard (Mac at least) UI behavior.
- Bruce
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Re: Can this be done with Bedit ?
On 4/26/09 at 1:09 AM, most...@gmail.com (Jan Erik Moström) wrote: I agree with the others, it's easier to generate the page from scratch And just to make doing this really easy, generate the image list as a separate file, and use the Web's original templating system, SSI, to insert it into the correct spot in your web page as an included file. From then on, updating is trivial: just run your script and replace the old include file with the new one. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Using SSH with BBEdit
Hi All, An ISP where I will be hosting some web apps has opened SSH access for me. I haven't had the occasion to use SSH before now, so I'm going through the SSH manuals, checking the docs of various programs, and searching around for articles and tips. I've seen bits and pieces about SSH on this list over the years, so I know there are folks who use BBEdit with this form of remote access. It's a rare day that I don't have many local and remote files open in BBEdit. So I'd love to hear from anyone on this list if you have a favorite practice with SSH, or can point me to useful resources. (Post here so others might benefit as well.) Thanks! - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Ignore line endings
On 5/10/09 at 7:03 AM, rsfre...@verizon.net (RichF) wrote: Can BBedit be set to ignore line endings ie move cursor to any column? I want to ignore the end of line so that I can position my cursor anywhere. Or find a way to move the end-of-line automatically. If current line of text ends at position 49, I want to place text at position 72 without having to type tabs or spaces. MultiEdit for Windoze allows one to ignore line endings. I can't answer technically about whether BBEdit can or should do this, but I'm so curious: 1. What purpose does this serve? 2. What would be between column (position) 49 and column 72 if there are no spaces or tabs? 3. When you use MultiEdit, can you have it show all invisible characters (space, tabs, line-feeds, carriage returns)? What does MultiEdit put in the intervening space? I wonder whether you are confusing a text editor (e.g., BBEdit) and a word processor? The closest thing I know of to what you've described is when newer versions of MS Word allow a double click anywhere on the page to put the cursor at that point. But of course what Word is doing is adding tabs, spaces, margins, text boxes, etc. to get the cursor to that point, so I'm not sure that's what you are asking for. Both columns and line endings are fictions of presentation. Text is just a continuous line of characters. The customary way to present a line of characters on screen or in print is to designate one or more characters as having the role of moving the flow of text to a new line and to the starting point at the margin. Which characters have these roles is set by the operating system. Maybe all you mean is a convenience function that pads over to where you click, so you don't have to press a few keys. Please enlighten. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Ignore line endings
On 5/10/09 at 8:38 AM, fri...@manoverboard.org (Fritz Anderson) wrote: On 10 May 2009, at 9:47 AM, Bruce Van Allen wrote: 1. What purpose does this serve? Given the emphasis on column 72, I assume he's coding FORTRAN, and needs to get to the line-sequence field. He wants to press a super-tab key, which will space-fill the line so the next character goes into column 72, like a tab stop in the control card on a keypunch. I seem to recall that TextMate has a similar feature (at least of moving the cursor to beyond EOL, and space-filling the difference). I don't think BBEdit has this feature, but so many people have confidently said BBEdit can't do something, and been proven wrong, I don't want to commit myself. My searches turned nothing up. I toyed with setting tab spacing to 72, and relying on the Detab command, but that's insane. Thanks for this explanation. I don't know either if such a function exists in BBEdit, but it would be trivial to script it in Applescript. Then assign the script a keyboard command, maybe Control-Tab, just to stick with the super-tab idea. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How do I add all .c files to a project?
On 5/9/09 at 8:10 AM, ti...@tabi.org (Timur Tabi) wrote: I'm surprised that this is not a built-in feature. BBEdit is at version 9, and it still can't do this? How do I script it? Since it's hard to tell if you're evaluating or just flaming, all I feel like offering is: RTFM. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Ignore line endings
On 5/12/09 at 12:15 AM, deepr...@gmail.com (David Nugent) wrote: On 11/05/2009, at 12:47 AM, Bruce Van Allen wrote: On 5/10/09 at 7:03 AM, rsfre...@verizon.net (RichF) wrote: Can BBedit be set to ignore line endings ie move cursor to any column? 1. What purpose does this serve? This functionality is known as 'virtual space', and it is a useful Basically it means that cursor movement is not restricted to the end of the current line (or the end of file!) and if you insert a new character in virtual space after the end of the line or after eof, the intervening space is simply whitespace filled (horizontal or vertical fill dependant on current hard tab and line ending modes respectively). Ah. I can see how it would be useful in some situations. OTOH, in most of my work on data files, arbitrarily-added white space would be sub-optimal to say the least. Also, page up/page down don't move the cursor in BBEDit or other (Mac) editors/word processors, but I suppose this could apply (optionally, as you suggest) to the arrow keys. Thanks for this information. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Find fuction STILL deficient
On 7/6/09 at 6:52 AM, xto...@gmail.com (Homer) wrote: If I haven't selected any text and initiate a find/replace function, the Selected text only button should automatically NOT be checked. Otherwise, I look like an idiot. Seems that you have a limited use-range. I sometimes open and close (or access and leave) the find/replace dialog a few times while adjusting find and replace patterns. But once it's ready I still might apply the operation to a selection. Also, given that the dialog I prefer is the new non-modal one, I often just keep it open, changing the find and replace patterns and the options as needed. And if I do close and later re-open the dialog, I want it to come back in the same state I left it in. That is way more useful to me than a dialog that robotically changes the search options whenever I open it. Also, if the dialog did what you describe, the Selected Text Only checkbox would be continuously blinking on and off as you select and de-select text while working in your document. By parity of logic, if I have selected text, presumptively that button SHOULD automatically be checked. No -- what if the selected text is being used as the search phrase? I do this many times a day -- select a word or phrase and then choose Use Selection for Find or Use Selection for Replace. If BBEdit programmers can't see the crystaline logic of this, then please at least let me set a preference somewhere. Logic with incomplete information does not make a compelling argument. I don't mind you having a preference for this, although I think you need to specify more clearly what this would be. If you take into account what I've mentioned, I doubt it would be as simple as you seem to think. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: using arguments (argv) for running script from within BBEdit?
On 7/7/09 at 6:59 AM, gehabtgeh...@googlemail.com (Tom_P) wrote: So: is there some way to tell BBEdit to use a certain argument when executing a script? Or how are others coping with this situation? This is a perfect case for BBEdit shell worksheets. Using whatever form of input params your script accepts -- ordered args, key=val pairs, etc -- type out your paths, variables, meta-data, etc., and then type out your execution line, then select all of the above and hit Enter. Here's a real-world example: a worksheet that calls a script to analyze election contributions (using a Perl script, but you get the idea). This uses key=val pairs to set up the script. To use, select from the first line down to and including the '#-#-#' line; then press the Enter key. Any output prints out below, allowing easy documenting and error checking. I also have a script in BBEdit that clears the worksheet below the #-#-# line, so can I see results, maybe copy or save them, and then quickly revert to ready state to execute again. Note that some variables are commented out -- an easy way to test alternatives without retyping every time; just move the comment mark (# here). Pay attention to how things are quoted, both the key=val pair settings and in the execution line. Note also that below the execution line there are some lines commented out; if these lines are un-commented, and the execution line is commented, then the worksheet executes with Perl's profiler for de-bugging. Email will probably have cut some of the following lines, but this is just meant to illustrate the idea, not be executed... A='Project=to2008NOV19' B='base_dir=/Volumes/Data/.../Analysis' C='source_file=CONTRIBS_to_2008-11-19.txt' D='criteria=all' E='amount_fld_name=amount' F='crosstab=name donor_type donor_class address city zip county state occupation date election' G='max=20' H='increment=200' I='delay=0' J='db_version=_a' # K='rpt_criteria=donor_type~organization' # L='rpt_version=_organizational' K='rpt_criteria=donor_type~person' L='rpt_version=_personal' # K='rpt_criteria=all' # L='rpt_version=_all' perl /Volumes/Data/.../Analysis/analyze_contribution_log $A $B $C $D $E $F $G $H $I $J $K $L # Profile: # perl -d:DProf /Volumes/Data/.../Analysis/analyze_contribution_log $A $B $C $D $E $F $G $H $I $J $K $L # dprofpp tmon.out #-#-# HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Not able to record applescripts in Snow Leopard
On 2009-09-12 at 8:46 AM, kevinbe...@gmail.com (Beebs) wrote: I use the record function for the basis of my scripts and it appears that not only will it not record AppleScripts, it won't even open the AppleScript Library for viewing. Same over here, only with Snow Leopard. I and others have reported it to support, and they are working on it. I've been told that the Script Debugger still has access to the BBEdit scripting dictionary, possibly offering a work-around. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Line endings with Unix servers
On 2009-09-30 at 12:10 PM, rsfre...@verizon.net (Richard S. French) wrote: Questions for others using BBedit and transferring files to a unix server. What line endings do you use for the files that you edit locally on your machine? In Mac OS X, the underlying system is UNIX, and I keep most of the files I edit with BBEdit in UNIX (LF) line endings. The exceptions are primarily due to some applications -- Excel and Filemaker most prominently in my workflow -- that impose System 9 Mac line endings when they export or Save As... to text files. Newer versions of both apps have gotten better at sensing line endings correctly when importing, but I am still occasionally surprised by squirrelly behavior until I realize what's happening... Of course, BBEdit happily opens files correctly no matter what the line endings are, unlike many other apps. Thus it is sometimes necessary to convert line endings one way or the other when flinging files around between apps. If it's an individual file, I use BBEdit's handy features. For batches of files, and files manipulated programmatically, I use a utility I wrote in Perl that converts any line ending to any other as I specify. Do you keep all files as native Mac line endings (CR)? Or unix (LF) or windows (CR/LF)? UNIX unless in process with as above. CR is only native Mac on System 9 and earlier. Do you change the line endings before you transfer to Unix or do you change them only on the Unix server? Before, if they aren't already LFs. Is there a way to keep a file locally with Mac line endings and use the FTP browser to change it to Unix when transferring to Unix? Why would you want to do this? If life is simple, i.e., your work flows between BBEdit and your UNIX server, then keep all files in UNIX format. If you're forced to work with apps that still insist on System 9 Mac line endings, BBEdit's tools might suffice; otherwise you'll need to get or write a batch converter. I believe most FTP apps, including BBEdit's built-in, convert text files to the destinations's format for you. Thanks, Richard. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Spanning line endings
On 2009-10-16 at 4:35 AM, ccstone1...@gmail.com (Christopher
Stone) wrote:
There *is* a switch to make '.*' span line endings - yes?
Assuming you mean in regular expressions (grep patterns), yes,
of course. BBEdit uses PCRE search patterns (PCRE == Perl
Compatible Regular Expressions).
Include (?s) in your search pattern , or enclose the relevant
portion of it with (?s: [your sub-pattern here]). Note the colon
(':') in the latter.
From the manual (p 186):
s — By default, the magic dot metacharacter . matches any
character except return (\r). If you turn this option on with
(?s), however, dot will match any character. Thus, the pattern
(?s).+ will match an entire document.
HTH.
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Re: Sorting fortune file
On 2009-10-18 at 3:37 PM, gkr...@gmail.com (le...@gmail) wrote:
I have a fairly long fortune file (
http://home.kreme.com/mysigs.txt ) that I would like to sort
in alphabetic order, excepting leading punctuation or supper
common words like 'a', 'the', 'I', c.
I have two problems, one of which I think is trivial, so let's
cover that one first.
I need to capture the entire 'fortune' from % %, but fortune
files don't have a leading % or a closing % at the file
boundaries. Many of the fortunes are multiple lines, and I do
not want to muck up the formatting when I sort.
The second problem, of course, is excluding a list of words I
consider 'common' from the sort. For example,
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house
I would have both 'the' and 'may' in my exclusion list, so that
should sort based on 'forces'.
If a pig looses its voice, is it disgruntled
would be sorted under 'pig'
Ideas? Probably a perl script, huh?
Try this untested script (provide filenames and add your own
list of skipped words below __END__):
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my %sort_buckets;
my %exclusions;
# provide your filenames here:
my $file_to_sort = 'path/to/file_to_sort';
my $sorted_file = 'path/to/sorted_file';
while (DATA) {
$exclusions{$_}++;
}
open $in, , $file_to_sort
or die Can't open file: $!;
while ($in) {
my $line = $_;
my $sort_key = join = map {
$_ =~ /$exclusions{$_}/i ? () : $_
} split = $line;
$sort_buckets{$sort_key} = $line;
}
close $in;
open $out, , $sorted_file
or die Can't open file: $!;
foreach (sort keys %sort_buckets) {
print $out $sort_buckets{$_}, \n;
}
close $out;
__END__
a
the
this
that
you
when
is
may
be
if
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Re: Sorting fortune file
On 2009-10-18 at 4:52 PM, b...@cruzio.com (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:
On 2009-10-18 at 4:17 PM, b...@cruzio.com (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:
Try this untested script (provide filenames and add your own
list of skipped words below __END__):
OK, that was untested and I just tested it and there's a thinko.
Hang on a minute.
Here we are:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my %sort_buckets;
my %exclusions;
# provide filenames:
my $file_to_sort = '/path/to/file_to_sort';
my $sorted_file = '/path/to/sorted_file';
while (DATA) {
chomp;
$exclusions{$_}++;
}
open $in, , $file_to_sort
or die Can't open file: $!;
while ($in) {
my $line = $_;
my @words = split = $line;
my $sort_key = '';
for (0..$#words) {
if ($exclusions{lc($words[$_])}) {
next;
} else {
$sort_key = join = map { lc($_) } @words[$_..$#words];
last;
}
}
$sort_buckets{$sort_key} = $line;
}
close $in;
open $out, , $sorted_file
or die Can't open file: $!;
foreach (sort keys %sort_buckets) {
print $out $sort_buckets{$_}, \n;
}
close $out;
__END__
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the
this
that
you
when
is
may
be
if
i
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Re: Sorting fortune file
On 2009-10-18 at 5:35 PM, jlund...@pobox.com (Jonathan Lundell) wrote:
Bruce, how are you handling the % fortune separator?
Not sure what you are referring to.
On Oct 18, 5:22 pm, Bruce Van Allen b...@cruzio.com wrote:
On 2009-10-18 at 4:52 PM, b...@cruzio.com (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:
On 2009-10-18 at 4:17 PM, b...@cruzio.com (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:
Try this untested script (provide filenames and add your own
list of skipped words below __END__):
OK, that was untested and I just tested it and there's a thinko.
Hang on a minute.
Here we are:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my %sort_buckets;
my %exclusions;
# provide filenames:
my $file_to_sort = '/path/to/file_to_sort';
my $sorted_file = '/path/to/sorted_file';
while (DATA) {
chomp;
$exclusions{$_}++;
}
open $in, , $file_to_sort
or die Can't open file: $!;
while ($in) {
my $line = $_;
my @words = split = $line;
my $sort_key = '';
for (0..$#words) {
if ($exclusions{lc($words[$_])}) {
next;
} else {
$sort_key = join = map { lc($_) } @words[$_..$#words];
last;
}
}
$sort_buckets{$sort_key} = $line;
}
close $in;
open $out, , $sorted_file
or die Can't open file: $!;
foreach (sort keys %sort_buckets) {
print $out $sort_buckets{$_}, \n;
}
close $out;
__END__
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this
that
you
when
is
may
be
if
i
have
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Re: Sorting fortune file
On 2009-10-18 at 5:53 PM, b...@cruzio.com (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:
On 2009-10-18 at 5:35 PM, jlund...@pobox.com (Jonathan Lundell) wrote:
Bruce, how are you handling the % fortune separator?
Not sure what you are referring to.
OK, my bad for responding to something in between running my own
work jobs. I looked at the fortune file, so now I see the '%'.
Before the start of the read loop, add the line
$/ = %\n;
while ($in) {
next if /\%/;
I know, you hate that, too... :-)
Also, take of the \n at the end of each output line
print $out $sort_buckets{$_}, \n;
Just say:
print $out $sort_buckets{$_};
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Re: Sorting fortune file
On 2009-10-18 at 6:20 PM, b...@cruzio.com (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:
On 2009-10-18 at 5:53 PM, b...@cruzio.com (Bruce Van Allen) wrote:
On 2009-10-18 at 5:35 PM, jlund...@pobox.com (Jonathan Lundell) wrote:
Bruce, how are you handling the % fortune separator?
Not sure what you are referring to.
OK, my bad for responding to something in between running my
own work jobs. I looked at the fortune file, so now I see the '%'.
Before the start of the read loop, add the line
$/ = %\n;
Besides doing that, you'll need to deal with the punctuation
marks at the start of some lines.
Aside from the punctuation marks, it now looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
my %sort_buckets;
my %exclusions;
my $file_to_sort = '/path/to/file_to_sort';
my $sorted_file = '/path/to/sorted_file';
while (DATA) {
chomp;
$exclusions{$_}++;
}
open $in, , $file_to_sort
or die Can't open file: $!;
$/ = %\n;
while ($in) {
my $line = $_;
my @words = split = $line;
my $sort_key = '';
for (0..$#words) {
if ($exclusions{lc($words[$_])}) {
next;
} else {
$sort_key = join = map { lc($_) } @words[$_..$#words];
last;
}
}
$sort_buckets{$sort_key} = $line;
}
close $in;
open $out, , $sorted_file
or die Can't open file: $!;
foreach (sort keys %sort_buckets) {
print $out $sort_buckets{$_};
}
close $out;
__END__
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Re: Sorting fortune file
On 2009-10-19 at 11:33 PM, gkr...@gmail.com (le...@gmail) wrote:
It's a bad sign when the first line in the script completely
confuses me.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
Standard invocation of Perl at the start of a script, with
warnings enabled.
my %sort_buckets;
Just a name for a variable.
my %exclusions;
And %exclusions is just automagically pulled from the end of
the file (After the __END__?)
Yes, the idea being that you might not think of all the words to
exclude right away, so it's a convenient place for you to
maintain the list.
These lines do the work:
while (DATA) {
chomp;
$exclusions{$_}++;
}
DATA is a filehandle for the lines that appear after __END__.
I had the impression you were more familiar with Perl; otherwise
I wouldn't have composed something so quickly and so bare of
explanation. I did it while waiting for my machine to process
some large data sets (with Perl, natch). If I'd had time to be
more deliberate, I probably would have spared the list all my
revisions and also the opportunity for snarky comments about
Perl :-).
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Re: Sorting fortune file
On 2009-10-19 at 11:34 AM, r...@tamias.net (Ronald J Kimball) wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 04:37:11PM -0600, le...@gmail wrote: If a pig looses its voice, is it disgruntled would be sorted under 'pig' You've already been provided with a Perl script, so I guess I won't bother with that. I'll just point out that this should be loses, not looses. :) Maybe if a pig *looses* its voice it would be quite delighted :-). - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: FTP File Mappings?
On 2009-11-08 at 10:41 AM, summitsc...@gmail.com (Scout) wrote: Where in Mac OS X does one find the file mappings which indicate whether FTP should upload a specific file type as ascii or binary? I remember that this was available in the control panels of OS9, but can't seem to find it in OS X. I've always handled this in the ftp client's settings. Don't remember what you describe in OS9, except maybe Internet Config, which IIRC could modify the settings of the ftp client. Anyway, how are you doing ftp? I.e., command-line ftp commands, GUI client such as Fetch, Interarchy, Transmit, etc? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: How to Run a line of code in external program
On 2010-01-12 at 11:31 AM, chriscorb...@gmail.com (Chris) wrote: Just curious, are people also using the shell worksheet in BBEdit? Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Oh, yes. Here's one of my uses: I prepare voter data for election campaigns. I run large sets of data through a series of processes to make a useful voter file for campaign planning and voter contact. The problem: how to manage a complex and time-consuming data processing task, as follows: Each county has its own format for voter registration data, and a county's data structures and database field names may change from one election to the next. Voter data churns constantly -- people move, die, and change name, party, gender, and so on. Jurisdiction boundaries, precinct lines, and even zip code areas change, too. In this environment, each time I set up a voter file, I have to start from the beginning, building from raw data about voters, streets, districts, past elections, and other information, any of which might have changed in content or structure since the last time I processed it. A typical county's voter roll requires 17 processes, which cumulatively clean, standardize, and cross-tabulate the data into final form. Each process ends with tests, whose results must be checked (bio-optically ;-) before the next process may begin. Some times it's necessary to back up one or more steps in the processing when a problem is found. Running the complete processing series with no interruptions takes five to eight hours (I can do other work during most of that time). Is that enough of a problem statement? Add to it the obvious need to keep written track of things both during the processing and between processing occasions. My solution: For each election, each county gets a data processing directory into which I copy a set of BBEdit shell worksheets, one for each of the 17 processes, plus a few others. Each worksheet is named for its process; the content of the worksheet is one or more lines of input arguments, followed by a call to the script the does the processing. When the script is executed, its output prints out on the worksheet. For my processes, the output includes progress indicators as files are read or written, counts of things found, samplings of in-process data, and finally the test results from the process and the paths to the data file(s) that the process yielded. Here's an example of one of these worksheets, down to and including the line with #-#-#: A='Project=OCT2009' B='base_dir=/Volumes/Campaigns/2009/CO_01' C='source_file=voter_tabs.txt' D='criteria=all' # 'criteria=age50' E='crosstab=gender pty_group age_cohort zip' perl /Volumes/LIB/make_cross_tab_summaries $A $B $C $D $E #-#-# The above worksheet sample uses a format that works with the standard bash shell under OS X Snow Leopard. My scripts parse standard input as name=value pairs. Select all lines from A= down to and including the line with #-#-#. When you press Enter, the output will print below the #-#-# line. I have an Applescript that clears the sheet below the #-#-# line and then re-selects the top lines and #-#-# line, ready for me to press Enter again to re-run the process. With its own dedicated shell worksheet, each process and its input parameters, progress reports, and outcomes may be reviewed, re-run, checked, and annotated for future reference. Multiple worksheets may be opened and their processes executed simultaneously (assuming non-dependence). There is only one copy, in a central library, of the actual script for each processing step; it may be pointed to by multiple shell worksheets each with its own parameters. During script development, I start using the shell worksheet to call the script from the very beginning. Reflecting this, the first line output from the scripts I'm describing here simply shows that the script initialized and loaded its needed modules: Tue Jan 12 19:21:29 2010 Initializing... Process 5396 using BVA::XDATA 3.90, BVA::XUI 2.9, BVA::XACT 1.11, Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 2.25 If a script has a problem, warnings and error messages spill out down the worksheet (yes, you can cancel a worksheet process), becoming breadcrumbs for the warnings are friends path back to functioning code. Perl, the language I most enjoy working in, provides a strong set of debugging, profiling, and testing tools. I can invoke these with a few lines kept on the worksheet but normally commented out. Again, the results from the profiler or test suite print out on the worksheet for study. There's more to how I do all this, but I think you can see that this satisfies the requirements of my problem statement quite well. Most of what I describe could be done on the command line, especially by someone adept at using all the tools of that environment to pipe output to files, capture warnings, tweak input variables, etc. But I've come to enjoy how handy it is to
Re: Perl sub curiosity
On 2010-01-22 at 5:06 PM, johndelac...@gmail.com (John Delacour) wrote:
In writing a Perl script I used a subroutine CHECK() and had to
change it because it seems to be a reserved name -- it appears
syntax-coloured blue unlike any of my other subroutines. I do
not generally use the prefix to run a subroutine,
incidentally. That's probably very very bad, but doesn't seem
to be at the root of my problem.
I can run this without an error:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
CHECK();
though goodness knows what it means, but
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
CHECK();
throws an error (Undefined subroutine).
Both are coloured.
Can someone tell me what I'm missing?
You're probably familiar with BEGIN { ... } blocks.
BEGIN, INIT, CHECK, and END are a words reserved in Perl to name
built-in subroutines that execute at specific stages of your
program's operation.
I'm guessing this gives you enough to explain what was
happening, or to dig further in the right direction.
- Bruce
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Re: Using Tab to indent lines
On 2010-01-22 at 3:33 PM, p.chapman...@gmail.com (Carpii) wrote: If I select a block of text in BBEdit, and press Tab, it indents it (which is what I want). Theres an option in preferences to dictate whether this happens I think, and obviously its enabled. But if I select a single line of text, and hit Tab, it replaces the whole line with a Tab character. Is there a way to work around this, as its very inconsistent since Ive already told BBEdit Id like Tab to indent text, not replace the selection When you select a single line, be sure to select the end-of-line character (return, linefeed, etc). Then when you press Tab (assuming the setting you mentioned above), the line will indent the way a block does. Otherwise, the selected portion of the line will be replaced by the tab, as expected. One way I make it easy to select the end-of-line character is to enable Preferences - Editing: General - Allow single-click line selection. HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group.
Fwd: Re: Are you working on a next bbedit version?
On 2010-04-20, LuKreme wrote: On 19-Apr-2010, at 09:35, stratboy wrote: Are you? Is there a release date? Wasn't there a new release just a few months ago? 9.3.1? Oh, there you go, being factual and logical. Unfortunately, the OP has caught a potentially serious case of an ITD the leads to addiction to whatever is coming next instead of what is here now. A key symptom is that the OP didn't have a feature request or bug-fix in mind. Just a new version. This disease can cause unfortunates to seek constant stimulation from technological change, distorting perceptions so that each incremental improvement is seen as potentially revolutionary, only to be followed by an emotional and physiological crash when life turns out to be the same after all. Partial recovery occurs, but another cycle of excitement and crash usually commences within a short time. That this addiction is pernicious, and as with many addictions alters thought processes, is shown by a simple test that may be self-administered: Consider the ancient wisdom: Want what you have. Does this ring true to you, or as soon as you read it did you start thinking of why it's wrong, or doesn't apply to your (my) desire for the stimulation from the new? (It is certainly wrong for those who have lives limited by racism, sexism, exploitation, environmental degradation.) Computers and software have never been more powerful and versatile, and of course by the nature of semiconductor technology and the potential permutations of software languages, they will get more so in perpetuity. But the only time we get to use these things is now. So get back to work/play with the means at hand, instead of wasting cycles and delaying your life for what might come next. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group.
Re: Upgraded from 8.72 to 9.5 and have a question about search from top
On 2010-04-29, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 20:29 -0700 on 04/28/2010, Bill Rowe wrote about Re:
Upgraded from 8.72 to 9.5 and have a question about se:
On 4/28/10 at 5:53 PM, dougler...@gmail.com (douglerner) wrote:
I just upgraded from BBEdit 8.72 to BBEdit 9.5.
In the new search, I notice I can't do the CMD+T to force the search
to start from the top of the file anymore.
Is there a way to do that?
I know about the wrap option, but that's different.
I don't have an answer to your question. But I am curious as
to why you see the wrap option as different. It you start a
search from the start (top) of a file it obviously searches
the entire file stopping for a hit. If the wrap option starts
from where the cursor is and searches through the file
wrapping end to start till you get back to where the cursor
is, isn't the end result the same? What am I missing here?
If the string you are looking for is the only occurrence or you are
looking for all the occurrences, there is little difference since both
will find the string. OTOH, if you are looking for a specific
occurrence out of a number of occurrences (and know that it is or near
the first occurrence) you want to start at the top and not wherever you
current are (as would be the case with wrap). With wrap in this case,
you would need get each occurrence displayed for you and need to reject
them to go to the next in your search (and only find it once you have
reached the end of the file and wrapped back to the top).
I've gotten quite used to the new search/replace window; among
other things the
wapping-search-starting-from-wherever-the-cursor-is is now what
I expect; there is a distinct visual signal when the wrap
happens, going either direction, so it's easy to be sure of not
missing something.
But for those cases when I do want to find the very first
occurrence, I wrote a little applescript (wrote as in found an
example somewhere) and attached a key combination to it:
tell application BBEdit
activate
find text of selection searching in every text of text
document 1 options {starting at top:true, wrap around:false,
backwards:false, case sensitive:true, match words:false, extend
selection:false} with selecting match
end tell
With the options set this way, BBEdit will jump to the first
occurrence of whatever was selected, and select it. You can then
use the usual Use selection for find and Find selected text
commands to jump through the file to the next occurrences. If
you see the wrap signal, you've perused the whole file.
I bet the script could directly incorporate Use selection for
find, saving a step...
I set Control-F as the key combination to call this script,
because that's close to Command-F for find.
HTH.
- Bruce
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Re: Multiple HTML tag selection and delete with BBEdit Mac
On 2010-06-03, Nick A wrote: Now I'm stuck with a search window that lists all the tags that were found, but I don't know how to delete them all. Intuitively I want to select all and delete, but it doesn't seem to work like that. Using the find/find all/replace dialog box doesn't seem to be able to do it all at once. How do I do this all at once? You need to study BBEdit more. There (of course) is a Replace All command. BUT before you do that... What people have been suggesting is using the search pattern for the table element markup and replacing each instance with '' -- nothing. Before you do that, you might consider replacing table element markup with some easily identifiable character(s), allowing you to more easily see where the former table markup was, and also use additional find/replace steps to begin putting your non-table markup/css in place. If I were dismantling tables with this brute force I have to do it fast approach, perhaps not knowing for sure yet exactly how the contents of the tables will be marked up in the new version, I would at least throw in some white space. Something like replacing table tags with two blank lines, tr tags with one blank line, and td th tags with a newline and a tab (\r\t). That would at least let me see the what was left in separate pieces. You could just as easily replace table tags with div tags, tr tags with p, and td th with span. Taking this further, try: replace table tags with div class=former_table replace tr tags with p class=former_row replace th tages with span class=former_heading replace td tags with span class=former_cell You're not stuck forever with those classes named former... -- you can always do find/replace on them once the stuff being marked up is integrated with your new css/markup scheme. In the meantime, though, you have every piece of the former table's content marked up with style-able structures. But this really depends on whether the table's organization of its contents maps closely to how you want to organize the content in the new version. It probably won't map well, and you'll have to do some hand work rearranging the content to work with css layout. Then I think your job is simpler if you do something like what I've suggested in above with white space. HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group.
Re: Scrolling while selecting - very slow.
On 2010-08-11, tpneumat wrote: Ah yes. Not sure why I don't just do that. Thanks! Guess it comes from doing things in VI. Only thing is, mouse is required to do what you are suggesting. So, there is still no mouse-less way of selecting large chunk without slow scrolling, right? I suppose its tied to key repeat rate, but mine is on max for a mac, and it does slow down even more during selection. Can live with it and change my ways i suppose. Page Down works from the keyboard. Control-Down Arrow scrolls down (might be a setting, but I can't find it right off). Look into Extend Selection in the manual. Also, people report that scrolling is slower if they have Soft Wrap on. Whether this would help you depends on what type of text you're writing... HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group.
Re: Saved window state frustration
On 2010-08-13, Brian Frick wrote: No... I have tried that. I can save default window and any new window behaves properly. It's only windows that aren't saved in the default-window configuration that are re-opening in the last saved state. Going back to your original post, When I open a window and do a compare, I have a window left, a window right, and a window across the bottom that shows the diff results. If I make changes and save a document, next time I open the window, it is opened in the same state -- either left or right with space along the bottom. I find that this problem does NOT happen if I close the diff results window first. Try that. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group.
Re: Grep Help.
On 2010-09-09, m i l e s wrote: Hi. I have data from a OUTLOOK export that's been corrupted. It appears that Outlook is putting extraneous data from the NOTES field into the TITLE field of the export, which ends up column shifting the resulting records that follow the first record. Look at the sample data below: its column shifted the following: Low Normal Web Page Down to the next line, and anything in the notes field gets stuffed into the Title field, where there should be nothing at all. How would I fix this with Grep ? It's difficult to see the problem because email has broken your lines up. A few things to try: 1. First, If you can go back to Outlook and re-do the export, pay attention to any options for line breaks, encoding, etc. Also, when there, see if this record has anything odd in it, such as extraneous quote marks, paragraph returns, etc. 2. Open the exported file in BBEdit with various encodings (see File menu Re-Open with Encoding. Might reveal something. 3. Viewing the file in BBEdit, choose Show Invisibles, and look for strange characters (sometimes shown as red upside-down question marks), etc). If they seem to be located near the problems, you might get somewhere by searching for them and deleting or replacing with something that doesn't force a new line. HTH -- Just guessing - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Still puzzled by Find Differences: Compare Folders
On 2010-10-09, Dave wrote: Maybe I'm missing something, but I have never understood the usefulness of the Only in new and Only in old lists. When I first started using this feature I assumed there would be some way to copy these files into the same relative path in the folder where they didn't exist, but if there is I still haven't figured it out, I too would like to see commands such as Copy to New or Copy to Old. I have found that I can select one or more files in the Only in New/Old list and drag them into the Finder folder I want them in; not always convenient due to the way I have the Find Diffs windows fill my monitor, but it does put copies where I drag them. I'm cc:ing this to BB support, with your complete message quoted below. Maybe I'm missing something, but I have never understood the usefulness of the Only in new and Only in old lists. When I first started using this feature I assumed there would be some way to copy these files into the same relative path in the folder where they didn't exist, but if there is I still haven't figured it out, and the documentations doesn't say anything about it. There doesn't even seem to be any way of getting information about the locations of these files without opening them, and the only way to copy them into the other folder is by using Save As... or Save a Copy... for each file, which is not only tedious, but it doesn't preserve the creation/ modification dates of the original files. So far about the only use I've been able to make of these lists is to open the files, click the Reveal in Finder icon on each one, then open another Finder window, navigate to the other folder, then copy the selected file. Am I just expecting too much of BBEdit by expecting it to be more helpful in this process, or is there a feature that I'm overlooking? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: search: not beginning-of-line followed by string
On 2010-12-15, Dave Ratcliffe wrote: I note at the end of the Searching with Grep section of the online help manual that O'Reilly Associates' Mastering Regular Expressions, is recommended. Is there anything that any of you think is superior to this as a comprehensive reference for grep and regular expressions? That's the best. Worth investing in the latest edition (third, 2006), but a used first (1997) or second edition can teach most of it. In my own experience and observation of others, you can probably expect to work your way up through levels of regex power. A worthy height to reach is facility with look-ahead and look-behind assertions, both positive and negative (see Ronald's suggestion). Other resources: O'Reilly also has a pocket reference, and I see they now have a Reg Ex Cookbook but I haven't read it. As additional learning tools, check out a swell pair of features in BBEdit's search dialog: - it caches recent search expressions (see the clock icon); and - you can save and name your regexen for convenient future use (the 'g' icon). These features allow you to rapidly try variations without losing previous tries. I save regexen to use for tasks I expect again and sometimes just to enjoy the satisfaction of composing one that powerfully handled a problem. BBedit also gives you the ability to properly escape characters as needed for use in regular expression searches, with the menu command Search - Use Selection for Grep Search. This can be a guide in learning when to escape which characters when creating regular expressions by hand. Finally, this BBEdit list has some master regex adepts, among them some who responded to your post, and is a friendly place for learning (provided that you try it first on your own :-). HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Scratchpad like window for Unix Script Output?
On 2010-12-21, David Eves wrote: I'm looking for a way to have the Unix Script Output Window do two things: ... I have looked through the BBEdit User Manual and do not see this mentioned under Scratchpad or Unix Scripting. Hold down the Option key and select the Run... command from the #! menu. The options for Output to: and Output Options: provide close to what you are asking for. a) always open in a new window Output to: √ New Window b) behave like the Scratchpad when modified, that is, never prompt to save when closing the window or quitting BBEdit. Output Options: √ Save After Writing Once you choose options, they 'stick' for the next time you run a script. HTH. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Scratchpad like window for Unix Script Output?
On 2010-12-21, Matt Martini wrote: On Dec 21, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Bruce Van Allen wrote: On 2010-12-21, David Eves wrote: I'm looking for a way to have the Unix Script Output Window do two things: ... I have looked through the BBEdit User Manual and do not see this mentioned under Scratchpad or Unix Scripting. Hold down the Option key and select the Run... command from the #! menu. The options for Output to: and Output Options: provide close to what you are asking for. a) always open in a new window Output to: √ New Window b) behave like the Scratchpad when modified, that is, never prompt to save when closing the window or quitting BBEdit. Output Options: √ Save After Writing This doesn't do what was intended (or at least what I want to see), I want the Unix Script Output Window to always start out blank. With your method above the output of commands would be saved (appended) for every command. Not ideal. I want a blank slate every time. Did you look at the Options dialogue? There is also a choice for Clear Before Writing. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Applescript: Execute a line in a worksheet
On 2011-02-08, Christopher Stone wrote: Hey Folks, Is there a way to execute a line in a worksheet via Applescript? I've got a script that preassembles a command and opens it in a new worksheet, and I'd like for the script to execute the line as well to save me a step. Not sure if this fits your needs, but... I use an applescript (called by an assigned key combination) to select the relevant lines of my worksheets, so all I have to do then is press Enter (not Return) and the code executes with whatever params I've supplied. The script also clears away any output left from the previous execution. To do this, I use a consistent layout for my worksheets. Here's an example from one of my sheets (simplified): ## start BBEdit Worksheet ## A='Project=SEPT2010' B='base_dir=/Volumes/MyData' C='source_file=voter_tabs.txt' D='crosstab=gender pty_group age_cohort exp_vote_method' perl /Volumes/LIB/make_cross_tab_summaries $A $B $C $D #-#-# ... ## end BBEdit Worksheet ## You can handle input params in other ways; I like using A, B, C, ... so I can easily provide params in option=value form, then hand them to the executable as $ variables (in quotes in case there are spaces or other confusing characters within the params). Of course, the form of your params may vary according to what your executable expects. The applescript finds the line with '#-#-#', first deletes anything below it (previous output), and then selects the remaining lines from the top down to and including the '#-#-#'. That way when I press Enter, all params and the executable are invoked, and the output appears below the '#-#-#' line. This allows me to quickly try params, see the results and possibly do something with them, then go back and quickly execute again with different params. The reason I don't just do 'Undo' after execution is that I often mess with the result output, so undoing wouldn't necessarily give me what I want. Here is the applescript (watch out for email-induced line breaks): ## start Applescript ## tell application BBEdit activate set mywindow to shell window 1 set lineX to 100 set lineBye to endLine of text of mywindow repeat with i from 1 to the number of lines of text of mywindow set linetext to contents of line i of text of mywindow if linetext contains #-#-# then set lineX to i + 1 exit repeat end if end repeat if lineX lineBye then select text from line lineX of text of mywindow to line lineBye of text of mywindow set the selection to end if select text from line 1 of text of mywindow to line (lineX - 1) of text of mywindow end tell ## end Applescript ## As I said, I assign a key combination to invoke this script. It would seem to me that your applescript that preassembles the command could create something like the above worksheet layout, and then the same script or a second one could do what mine above does to invoke the assembled command. Really, the layout and the form of the params can be whatever you want; in your case it might all be preassembled on one line. The key thing is to be able to select the executable line and its params. You could probably even script the 'Enter' keypress... HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Applescript: Execute a line in a worksheet
On 2011-02-08, John Delacour wrote: You do mean document/window, I suppose, and not worksheet, which is an Excel thing? John -- You don't know about BBEdit (shell) worksheets? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Applescript: Execute a line in a worksheet
On 2011-02-08, Christopher Stone wrote: Playing a bit with your script: Nice. I modified the second one to delete starting one character later, to preserve the end-of-line after #-#-#, so the output starts on its own line. That's the '+ 1'. tell application BBEdit try tell text of front shell window try delete (characters ((get characterOffset of character after (first line where its text is #-#-#)) + 1) thru -1) end try try select (lines 1 thru (get endLine of (first line where its text is #-#-#))) end try end tell end try end tell Anyway, best wishes for progress on YOUR script. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: BBEdit livelocks accessing no-longer-mounted SMB volume's file...
On 2011-02-27, jwiede wrote: Anyone else run into this? I apparently quit BBEdit with a file open from a volume mounted by SMB. Now, any attempts to launch BBEdit result in it launching then immediately going into some livelock because that SMB volume is no longer mounted (meaning it can longer access that file). I'm still testing, but imagine that this issue will disappear if the volume is mounted when I restart BBEdit. I'm seeing this behavior with BBEdit 9.6.3 on OSX 10.6.6. Anyone else seen similar behavior? Probably doesn't completely solve your problem, but my guess is that you have BBEdit's setting checked for Reopen documents that were open at last quit (Preferences - Application). From the manual: To override this when launching BBEdit, hold down the following modifiers. Option: Suppress startup items only Shift: Disable all plug-ins, tools, external services, and startup items That at least gets you back to BBEdit in a usable state. HTH. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Feature requests: vertical split; opening different documents in a split window
On 2011-02-27, Terje Dahl wrote: Yes, vertical split would be very useful. I agree. Did either you or the OP send this request to Barebones support? [See the bottom of every message on this list: If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. ] Thanks. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Feature requests: vertical split; opening different documents in a split window
On 2011-03-03, Michael Bradley, Jr. wrote: Upon your suggestion, I emailed Bare Bones support with my feature request. They responded quite quickly and noted that these features are on their list of future considerations. Excellent. That's the way I've seen several great user ideas incorporated in this application over the years. Thanks. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Feature requests: vertical split; opening different documents in a split window
On 2011-03-03, LuKreme wrote: On 3-Mar-2011, at 15:23, Bruce Van Allen wrote: Excellent. That's the way I've seen several great user ideas incorporated in this application over the years. All of my great ideas end up with This feature has been in BBEdit for 14 years, here's the page number for the manual. Ah, true -- they're usually ahead of us. But think of the distraught souls who proposed features that have NOT been adopted, such as tabbed windows, variable-width columns, and the option to make all ponies visible... - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Change file permissions and ownership.
On 2011-04-16, Rich Siegel wrote: On Saturday, April 16, 2011, Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com wrote: But. . . BBEdit worksheets don't handle sudo very well because you have to enter a password. Click the padlock icon in a worksheet window's tool bar to turn on `sudo` and then turn it of when you're done... Yow! Hadn't noticed that. One more great feature of BBEdit worksheets... Thanks. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Possible, worthwhile to port Solarized for use with BBEdit?
On 2011-04-17, Govinda wrote: I also changed Color:SecondaryHighlight equivalently, but honestly I am not sure even how to see in a doc what is SecondaryHighlight. (?) I think that shows when you have some text selected in a BBEdit window, and then activate a different window or application. Anyone else know? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: GREP Cleanup
On 2011-05-10, Robert Huttinger wrote:
oh!! do I need (link|visited|hover|active) ?
That would work for those. But I suggest that you re-read my
previous post, in which I suggested that you change only one
character from the regular expression in your earlier try:
Change the script line that is now
s/([-a-z ]+:)\s+(.+)/sprintf(%-20s,$1) . $2/ie;
to
s/([-a-z ]+:)\s*(.+)/sprintf(%-20s,$1) . $2/ie;
The change is the '*' after the '\s'. The '+' made it require at
least one space after the colon; using '*' allows it to match
with zero or more spaces. Your sample had no spaces after the
colon, which is why the original script didn't work for you.
The part of the above that you've been changing stays way more
general in what it will match if you leave it as '[-a-z ]+' (no
quotes). This character class includes all lower case letters
plus '-' and ' '; the '+' after it allows it to match one or
more times; the 'i' after the last '/' makes the expression
case-insensitive, so this will also match upper case letters.
Incidentally, this matching stuff ('regular expressions' in
geek-eze), is described well in BBEdit's manual. BBEdit's
regular expression matching follows that of Perl (5) quite closely.
bo
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Ronald J Kimball r...@tamias.net wrote:
On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 10:29:55AM -0400, Robert Huttinger wrote:
s/([-a-z ]+:([^link|visited|hover|active]))\s*(.*)/sprintf(%-32s,$1) .
$3/ie;
FYI, [^link|visited|hover|active] does not do what I presume you think it
does. [] is a character class, which matches exactly one character.
[^link|visited|hover|active] matches any one character that is not one of
the following: acdehiklnorstv|
Ronald
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Re: GREP Cleanup
On 2011-05-10, Bruce Van Allen wrote: On 2011-05-10, Robert Huttinger wrote: oh!! do I need (link|visited|hover|active) ? That would work for those. But I suggest that you re-read my previous post, in which I suggested that you change Oops I missed where you had that (link|visited|hover|active). I don't think specifying those was why your earlier try wasn't working. See my previous post. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: DTD Question
On 7/11/11 at 9:38 PM, ja...@amug.org (Jack Stewart) wrote: I am attempting to modify a website designed by a third party with a DTD of DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//SoftQuad//DTD HoTMetaL PRO 5.0::19980907::extensions to HTML 4.0//EN hmpro5.dtd I agree with Ken. There is no reason to keep the HotMetal DTD. It hails from ancient days when proprietary DTDs were more common and thought to be useful (they never were; now they're counter-useful). You might try first substituting the DTD for HTML 4.0.1 Transitional and fix the twenty errors you get with that, if fixing 232 errors seems too challenging at the moment. But you have a great opportunity to pull the site forward into HTML 5 right when use of 5 is rapidly expanding. I suspect that the document with a count of 232 errors has a smaller number of errors repeated many times, so fixing them all might not really be that hard. Most of HTML 5 is the same as HTML 4.0.1, so the learning curve for the transition to 5 is relatively gentle. Furthermore, HTML 5's newer constructs are mostly optional, so you don't have to master them all right now. Steve's link to Dive into HTML 5 is a good resource for the doctype question as well as most of the rest of the transition: http://diveintohtml5.org/semantics.html#the-doctype Browser compatibility is actually less significant than it once was. Today's somewhat contrived regime of rapid update releases by FireFox, Chrome, etc. is mainly focused on things like optimization, security, and embedding media (as well as just plain marketing). The developers aren't as much trying to compete by inventing non-standard HTML elements. Also, page generation tools (which HotMetal was/claimed to be) that still insert their own extensions to HTML should be avoided anyway. Getting over the hump of switching this site to HTML 5 would be a learning opportunity, and will also leave the site in a condition that readily accepts further features added by you or the next person who works on it. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: BBEdit 10 Color Scheme Issues
On 2011-07-25, maf675 wrote: This is really annoying and should be addressed! Then I hope you've submitted a report to BB support, as mentioned at the bottom of messages on this list. Ideally, send them details of what you did and what happened. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Per document tab widths
On 2011-07-26, Watts Martin wrote: As near as I can tell, there's no way to adjust the tab width for a document at *all* -- you can only change the editor default and the per-language setting. I'm surprised, thinking about it, that tab width isn't adjustable via the per-document Text Options. (And a little surprised those aren't saved with documents.) What? Those things work over here (BBEdit 10, OS X 10.7, and worked for years). I use this applescript saved in scripts folder, with Control-Tab set as keyboard command: tell application BBEdit set tabW to tab width of text window 1 if tabW 64 then set tabW to 4 else set tabW to tabW + 12 end if set tab width of text window 1 to tabW end tell This allows cycling through increasingly wider tab separations, per document. Adjust your increment as desired (that's the '+ 12'), as well as the maximum (64 here) before it reverts to minimum. Tab width is sticky, so a file keeps the last width I set. HTH. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: How to sync BBEdit to Dropbox?
On 2011-08-02, Rich Siegel wrote: On Tuesday, August 2, 2011, fongd fong.de...@gmail.com wrote: OTOH, Dropbox support seems hit or miss. For example, it seems that colour schemes (located in ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Color Schemes) are ONLY read from ~/Library. If you try to install a colour scheme into the equivalent location in your Dropbox, it won't be recognized (well, at least for me they aren't). Fixed in 3063 and later: http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit/browse_thread/thread/118395a8397e0203. I notice that DropBox sometimes lags in sending items across my local network. So when I first tried this by putting my laptop's BBEdit folder in DropBox, when I started BBEdit in my desk machine, not everything was there. I had to quit BBEdit, and wait a bit; then it all showed up when I started BBEdit again. Also, Rich, is the description above correct, that BBEdit looks in DropBox, grabs what it can find there, and then ALSO pulls local stuff from ~Library/Application Support/BBEdit? Thanks. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Document Info in BBEdit 10
On 2011-08-02, LuKreme wrote: But it switches when nothing is selected which just seems… odd. On the other hand, logically what else should it say? 0 / 0 / 0 is correct if nothing is selected. I suppose it could change to something like Nothing selected ... - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: I already miss the documents drawer (sniff)
On 2011-08-04, offtone wrote: Is there some stand being made about tabs, or why does BBEdit get on board with the rest of the multi-document applications of this decade and implement 'em? If only as an option... WAY more intuitive, I find. Tabbing is not helpful if you have more than a few documents open. I prefer the pop-up plus the sidebar doc listing. YMMV... - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: changes to Find
On 2011-08-06, Bill Thayer wrote: The two separate Find windows don't make much sense; all the more so that if you change one, the other is changed as well. (The two separate windows might make some sense if they allowed us to have one search in a document, the other over a set of document. Even then, not much.) I on the other hand like this a lot (and it's not changed from v. 9.x). Sometimes I search and replace in one doc, test, then decide I want to make the same change in several other docs, so it's convenient to have same pattern and replacement in the muti-doc dialog. In the Find window, I used to be able to specify Case Sensitive, Entire Word, and GREP, Wrap Around, Case Sensitive in the Find window — with command keys. That's gone No it's not - the key commands have changed - see the manual or a post from BB folk on this list about a week ago. I used to be able to manage my Find Patterns, from a very handy window reached thru Preferences. That's now handled under BBdit - Setup. I do agree that having Save Pattern at the bottom of the list is sub-optimal... Did you send you message to Support? HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Scripts that report information about selected text?
On 2011-08-10, rowen wrote: I'd want to write a script that reports the sum and mean of a column of numbers that are selected using column selection. I have a Python text filter that does this now with normally selected text (working on the first number found on each line), but it writes the information after the selected text (by echoing the input and then writing the new info). That technique won't work with a column selection; there's no obvious place to safely write the results. I would prefer to open a new window and write the results there. Is there some easy way to do this? From a Python script? My Python is minimal, but this would be trivial with regular expressions in Perl, without even selecting the column beforehand. But you might be able to do without going outside of BBEdit -- are you familiar with Text - Process Lines Containing... ? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Edit multiple documents in split view?
On 2011-08-10, jive wrote: Hello, I understand that you can edit the same document in split view, but can put different documents in multiple panes? (not unlike notepad+ + and komodo edit.) Just wondering. This is the only thing holding me back from purchasing... See View - Open in Additional Window. Don't confuse this with View - Open in New Window ... - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: [ANN] BBEdit 10.0.1
On 2011-08-10, Rich Siegel wrote:
Good { morning, afternoon, evening },
We are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of BBEdit
10.0.1.
Wow. Looking at the release notes for 10.0.1, I just wanted to
send my congratulations to Rich and the whole Barebones crew!
I'm sure the time since release of BBEdit 10 has been stimulating.
Good work.
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Re: Behavior of Find/Multi file Find - need help changing it
On 2011-08-11, Derrick Peavy wrote:
Used BBEdit since mid 90's and version 4. Great. But these changes
are killing me.
In prior versions (8 and below I think), when I performed a find (CMD
F), the find usually started at the top of the file. Not anymore.
Check the Wrap Around box at the bottom of the Find dialog.
You'll see a visual when the find wraps around to the first
instance of what you're searching for.
BBEdit is a language for programmers, so approach what you want
like a programmer would:
You can write a simple Applescript to move the cursor to the top
of the file, and add it as a menu-triggered script to the Find
command. Then whenever you call Find your little script will
move the cursor up before the find starts. Check the manual for
Attaching Scripts to Menu Items. There are other ways to do
this, but here'a an example:
tell application BBEdit
select first character of text document 1
end tell
Finally, here is a similar Applescript that I use -- not
attached to the Find command but instead to jump up to the first
instance of what I have selected. I call it with an assigned
keyboard combo (Control-F but choose your own).
tell application BBEdit
activate
find text of selection searching in every text of text
document 1 options {starting at top:true, wrap around:false,
backwards:false, case sensitive:true, match words:false, extend
selection:false} with selecting match
end tell
But also annoying is the find dialog box staying on screen until I
close it. I use shortcuts when I write code, so I like having the box
disappear.
Just hit Escape to close the dialog or click in your doc window
to put it in front.
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Re: Behavior of Find/Multi file Find - need help changing it
On 2011-08-11, Bruce Van Allen wrote: BBEdit is a language for programmers, Oops -- didn't mean to say language ... - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Solution for Black Pointer on Dark Background
On 2011-08-17, marty wrote: So, I take it then that BBE doesn't address this issue yet? Yet? Let's see, this came up on the this discussion group about five days ago. Have you actually made a request to BBEdit support? Has anyone else? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: No authenticated open/save in the App Store version
Not responding to any particular poster; I just want to ask that we not get into another prolonged discussion of the merits of getting BBEdit from the App Store vs. directly from Barebones. I'm SO bored with this topic; it really reduces the signal-to-noise ratio of this list, IMHO. The App Store serves some people well, and direct purchase from Barebones serves others well; obviously Barebones is happy with both. Some people frequently need authenticated saving and use of the BBE CLI tools, others rarely or never. Barebones provides a generous solution if you bought from the App Store and only then discovered that you need these capabilities. I also suspect that Apple might entertain a refund if asked; they've done such things for me in other situations, such as accidental re-purchase of OS X Lion. Can we just accept differences and let it be? Thanks. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Projects and mounted servers
On 2011-08-18, SpeedyG wrote: I have projects that have folders that are on mounted server volumes. It used to be that as soon as I connected to the server volume the folders(marked in red) were accessible(turned black). I had a problem that sounds similar, fixed in BBEdit 10.0.1. Have you upgraded? (Not the beta releases, the actual 10.0.1 update.) - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: GREP/Regex for dummies?
On 2011-09-06, Jefferis Peterson wrote: Find: ^([A-Z0-9]+) (.*) [0-9]+$ Replace: \1\t\2 But without the delimiters, it processed the page perfectly. Thanks for my first lesson in depth OBI-WAN :-) A guess is that the the non-matching lines have some extra whitespace at the start or end of the line. Unless I'm quite sure about it, I don't assume that a line has no extra whitespace, especially at the end. So when using ^ $ in a pattern, I tend to include an expression for zero or more whitespace characters, \s*, or zero or more tabs or spaces, [ \t]*, thus: Find: ^\s*([A-Z0-9]+) (.*) [0-9]+\*s$ Replace: \1\t\2 An additional note is the dot . matches any character EXCEPT the newline (\n or \r), unless you tell it otherwise*. If that weren't the case, without the ^ $ the above pattern would find ONE match: everything from the first id # to the description of the last item in the list. (*As you move up in levels of regex , you'll encounter pattern modifiers, which do things like allowing . to match newline characters or making character matches not case-sensitive.) HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Code folding breaking? (php)
On 2011-10-17, BenJ wrote: So switching to php is fine in this case as a workaround - but I'm still curious to know why the highlighting is limited when using the HTML language.. Just for sanity, have you done a syntax check lately? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Code folding breaking? (php)
On 2011-10-17, BenJ wrote: I had a look at the syntax check, and it looks like what's going on is that some php strings that contain html markup are confusing the html parser and causing BBEdit to think there are syntax problems where there actually aren't. When you get a chance, you might want to send a sample of that to Barebones support, to see whether they can tweak the parser to account for it. Appears that mixed-language files are increasingly part of the fun for many of us... - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Search and replace based on a custom dictionary file
On 2011-10-27, Roland Küffner wrote: My idea was to do it with some kind of dictionary file. In it each line would contain a single search replacement pair separated by tabs. Just like: old termtabnew term some other random old texttabanother replacement I picture a simple and flexible Perl script, but first, two questions: 1. Would it be the case that you would replace EVERY instance of one of your target terms with its replacement term? 2. Typically, how many terms would be replaced -- order of magnitude: 10, 100, 1000? Script coming later this morning, unless someone beats me to it (calling you out JD :-) - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: BBEdit 10.1.1 (3127) pre-release
On 2011-12-12, Govinda wrote: * [226751] Made a change to reduce the amount of workplace-inappropriate daydreaming done while the application is idle. That made me laugh ^^^ :-) Is daydreaming a real technical term for some real BBedit behavior? Well, in a sense. It's one of the hazards that show up after you've reached Level III in BBEdit. The first hint is glimpsing ponies around the edges of your field of vision when you pause typing... HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Select part of frontmost document
On 2011-12-24, Phil Dobbin wrote:
Hi, all season's greetings :-)
I've got a file I'm wondering is there a way to select all the text
between line 1 line 1217 so it can be copied to the Clipboard rather than
dragging the cursor across it (I do this quite often on several files that
are shared across the LAN but not often enough nor regular enough to be able
to run a script, etc)? They're generally .txt files.
Here's a find pattern that selects the first N lines in BBEdit:
\A([^\r]*\r){N}
So you would use:
\A([^\r]*\r){1217}
At minimum you could save this search pattern in BBEdit's find
window. You could also script it, perhaps with a prompt for how
many lines to select.
HTH
- Bruce
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Re: code folding in Perl
On 2012-01-04, Thomas wrote: Should the automatic code-folding work in Perl? None of my legacy perl scripts will show the folding triangle in the gutter except for function names. It would be nice if it work as in Python. Is there a certain style I need to follow for it to parse and fold correctly? It's worked out of box over here for years. Perhaps you don't have Perl files recognized (by suffix) under Preferences - Languages? Otherwise send an example to the list or to support. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: How to invoke paragraph symbol in BBEdit?
On Jan 5, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Bib aro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi-I'm trying to find and replace paragraph characters. I can see them but I can't seem to create the paragraph symbol in the Find and Replace function in BBEdit. What are the keys from the keyboard to use to get that symbol? I tried ^p but it had no effect. Do you mean the end of line character? That would be \r (no quotes) in a file opened by BBEdit. Or do you mean the backwards P symbol? If that, try selecting it and copy-paste or use a Search menu command to put it in the Find dialog. Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: App hangs when doing multi file search
On 2012-02-16, ltempest wrote: My BBEdit app hangs when I try and do a multi file search. Just checking: what are you searching on? Some search patterns match too much if not carefully composed. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: bbedit project files + other files on same fullscreen
On 2012-03-22, fint82 wrote: I have a bbedit project created. ... Say while making those changes I want to make some notes on a scrap file that I save to /tmp or desktop. Right now when I create that new file it brings me to a New Fullscreen window. I just want the new file to live on the same tier as the project folder in the same fullscreen. Check this out: BBEdit has a scratchpad available any time, AND, each project automatically gets its own scratchpad. Look in the lower left corner of the project window. This might serve your needs. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: PageUp/PageDown does not work properly in 10.1.1
On 2012-03-25, Erni Wogernom wrote: It looks like version 10.1.1 does not have working PageUp/PageDown functionality, Those work fine over here, and they do just what Page-Down and Page-Up do on other Mac programs - move the page view a whole screen* but NOT the text cursor. *MS Word doesn't move a whole screen by default, but can be set to. which is kind-of unexpected for such advanced text editor. Option+up/down just move cursor to top/bottom line (which is useless btw) instead of jumping up or down one screen while keeping relative cursor position on screen. Could you please fix this? I can't. Did you send your complaint to support? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: BBEdit strips spaces from the ends of my lines when it saves the file
On 2012-03-27, Philip Sharman wrote: I can't see any preference that controls this, and I can't find anything on the web or in the mailing list. Keep looking, namely at Preferences-Test Files-Strip Trailing Whitespace. HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Latency issues
Do either of you have SSDs in your machines? I recently tried installing an SSD as the boot drive on an MBP, installed latest Lion, and experienced stalling issues very similar to what you describe. My observation was that with system software running on the SSD, the semi-freezes would occur connected with accessing files from HDDs or something online. So I'm picturing some sort of speed mismatch between the SSD and whatever it draws from the HDD/remote source. [But note that I'm not done trouble-shooting my SSD with the vendor, and suggestions for me about that would be OT for this list. But if a hardware feature is in common with a behavior problem in system or software, I think it's worth mentioning here as an avenue to explore.] On 2012-04-04, Gribnif wrote: This sounds somewhat similar to a problem I have been having since I upgraded to version 10 in October. In my case, I am using NFS, and the lockups are more unpredictable. They only happen 2-3 times per day, and last up to a minute. I have already contacted tech support about it, and sent them logs from Spin Control. In my case, the problem seems to be caused by the large number of documents I have open, with the Soft Wrap option turned on. Using this information, they did correct one part of the bug, where it could be directly induced by resizing a project window; this would cause BBEdit to try to rewrap every open document in the project. But the random lockup is still there. When it happens, I can see all the little grey X's next to the open documents disappear, and watch them slowly reappear, as BBEdit rewraps them all. I have not found a way to reliably cause this type of rewrap to occur, or a way to prevent it (other than turning off Soft Wrap for every document, which is not an option for me.) It happens at random times, which are not related to anything else happening on the Mac or the NFS server. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Replace All key equivalent has stopped working
On 2012-04-06, Ken B wrote: I'm stumped. When I have a Find/Replace dialog open, I can press Command-= to Replace, but Command-Option-= to Replace All does not work. It used to work. If I look at the Preferences for key equivalents, the Replace and Replace All key equivalents are checked, meaning they should be active, and also grayed out, meaning I can't change them. (I don't want to change them, but I don't know why they can't be changed.) a. But you can change them, even if gray. Double-click on the key combination. b. Is the key combination for change all what you want? In most dialogs, if you hold down the Command key, you see the keyboard equivalents displayed. But not in my Find dialog (or the Find Multiple dialog). Now it's the Control key. HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: How to expand tabs to align text
On 5/20/12 at 9:28 PM, zoomc...@gmail.com (zoomclub) wrote: I'm pasting a lot of column based test from a spreadsheet and it would be great to have all the tabs align after pasting the data into BBEdit. I saw an older script called Entable but I do not think it works in the latest BBEdit I recently upgraded to. Please let me know if there is a way for me to align text that contains tabs, thanks. There isn't a way to have columns of different widths. My workaround is this applescript, which allows me to quickly adjust the tab width with a keyboard command. Repeating the command cycles the tab width through successively wider columns until it hits a maximum (64), then it reverts to default width. tell application BBEdit set tabW to tab width of text window 1 if tabW 64 then set tabW to 4 else set tabW to tabW + 12 end if set tab width of text window 1 to tabW end tell Save this script (in Script Editor) to the BBEdit folder in your Application Support folder in your Library. Then assign a keyboard command via BBEdit's Scripts menu. HTH. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Content of default shell worksheet
On 5/27/12 at 5:07 PM, olivertay...@me.com (Oliver Taylor) wrote: I while ago I deleted the default content of a new shell worksheet (don't ask how or why), and now I wish I hadn't. Is there a way to restore it? Does anyone have a copy? Looks like the default lives at: ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Stationery/Default Worksheet Stationery.worksheet I also see the same thing at: ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Unix Worksheet.worksheet which is what you get when using the Window menu: Show Unix Worksheet. Is that one also hosed? I don't want to attach a file to the whole list, so if you still need it I could send it directly. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: BBEdit looks quite bad on Retina MBP
On 6/16/12 at 5:54 AM, ne...@neiltiffin.com (Neil Tiffin) wrote: Yep, this modern api originated in OS 8.5, was marked as legacy in OSX 10.6, is carbon based (IIRC), and will be deprecated in 10.8. Oops. OMG -- you mean all this time I've been using BBEdit its text rendering has been done by less-than-the-latest technology?? And in the future that technology will be deprecated???!!! This must be a severe blow to those suffering from the technology disease -- you now, needing a new product the moment they heard about it, feeling depressed as soon as a faster model of their current computer is released, always focused on what will come next rather than on what they can do with what's available today. Don't mean to sound critical of Gabriel or Neil, but IMO these two posts don't help the OP or any other BBEdit users (no one's running 10.8, for one thing). They just feed the disease, stimulating more craving for updates, spreading the idea that BBEdit is somehow defective or behind the times. The OP had a genuine problem, and it's still not clear to me if it's due to BBEdit, Lion, the MBP Retina Display, or the OP's own settings. Has anyone else with a Retina MBP had the OP's problem (poor text rendering)? On Jun 15, 2012, at 9:01 PM, Gabriel Roth wrote: On 6/15/12 at 2:49 PM, sie...@barebones.com (Rich Siegel) wrote: No; we're using ATSUI, the other modern rendering API. An article at http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/04/18/ apple_issues_xcode_44_developer_preview_3.html states: The [Xcode release] notes also cautioned that performance of ATS APIs will suffer in OS X 10.8 because the ATS.framework is being deprecated. Developers are instructed to replace all their ATS code with CoreText as it will be removed in future OS X releases. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: File Drawer
On 6/28/12 at 4:06 PM, krem...@kreme.com (LuKreme) wrote: I can't find how to disable the file drawer from ever appearing. I don't mind it on my desktop with 2x24 1902x1080 dispalys, but I absolutely detest it on my MacBookPro, so how do I prevent it from showing up? Try: defaults write com.barebones.bbedit AlwaysShowFileList -bool NO Then quit and re-start BBEdit if it was running. HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: grep replace string puzzle
On 7/2/12 at 5:39 PM, ja...@me.com (Jeffrey Jones) wrote: Oops. \11_ looks like sub-string number 11 rather than sub-string 1 followed by a literal 1. [whole quote below] Try \01 instead of \1. I encountered a grep replace string conundrum this afternoon. I had some strings ns_, ms_, or ns_. I wanted to insert a digit 1 after the s, i.e., ns_ ns1_, ms_ ms1_, hs_ hs1_. I started to write Search: ([nmh]s)_ Replace: \11_ … Oops. \11_ looks like sub-string number 11 rather than sub-string 1 followed by a literal 1. My solution was Search: ([nmh])(s)_ Replace: \1s1_ But what if the s wasn't there? Suppose I had n_ n1_, etc. How do you add a digit after a saved sub-string? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: BBEdit looks quite bad on Retina MBP
On 8/1/12 at 12:37 AM, harald...@gmail.com (Hugin) wrote: Any particular reason why my posts are being systematically deleted??? Someone wants me to leave the group, or what? I'm seeing all of your posts of this message, so it doesn't appear they're being deleted... - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: grep help
On 8/4/12 at 9:20 PM, katesglad...@gmail.com (Steven) wrote: I am trying to remove a date string from an SQL file. From an SQL database file? Are you searching for text directly in that type of file? Which SQL database management system are you using? ?? - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Grep pattern for multi line /* ... */ blocks
On 9/30/12 at 1:05 PM, fredsays...@gmail.com (kt) wrote: Thanks Kendall I'll check out those compressors I tried the grep, but it matched the entire contents of the file. There were only 2 lines left after it was done. I'll try tweaking it a bit more. One direct solution: Find: (?s)\/\*.*\*\/\r The (?s) lets the . match newlines. Except that it matches from the first instance of /* all the way to the last instance of */. It would appear to work fine if there was only one /* ... */ enclosed comment in the text you're searching. The pattern needs to use non-greedy matching: Find: (?s)\/\*.*?\*\/\r The second question mark is part of the sub-expression .*?. This means match zero or more of ANY character -- including newlines, because of the (?s) invocation -- until the VERY NEXT match of the next thing in the pattern, which is an escaped asterisk \*. HTH - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: BBEdit No Longer Opens Files in Transmit FTP
On 10/4/12 at 7:16 PM, pwen...@gmail.com (Paul Wenzel) wrote: I'm having the same problem with Textmate, which I have been using in tandem with Transmit for YEARS. I'm also using OSX 10.8.2. It's completely disrupted my whole workflow. Super frustrating. This sounds frustrating. If it's of any help, I am having no problem (so far) with Fetch opening remote files for editing with BBEdit; OSX 10.8.2, BBEdit 10.5beta. Fetch isn't free any more, but I see there's a free 15-day trial; I have no connection except for using it forever. On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 8:08:49 PM UTC-5, Patrick Woolsey wrote: At 20:09 -0400 10/03/2012, Tim Harrison wrote: Is there any reason it would have started out of the blue? It just started yesterday and I'm pretty sure I updated to 10.8.2 some time before yesterday. Yes; the problem is sporadic, so you just didn't hit it before. In addition, why would it only cause a problem with BBEdit but not with other software like Sublime 2? Because files get handed off to them via a different mechanism. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Drag files from within BBEdit to Find Differences dialog
On 10/19/12 at 10:08 AM, fran...@cherman.com (Frances Cherman) wrote: Yes, this works, but only if both files are in your Project window. Sometimes they're not. True, but don't forget the more broadly useful Compare Two Front Documents command. Control-clicking in the file list of a browser or project was the workaround to get this facility when both docs are in the same project/browser window, so only one could be Front. I assign a keyboard command to Compare Two Front Documents, and that's by far my most frequent way to invoke comparison of two docs. On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Gribnif goo...@dwilga.gotdns.org wrote: Personally, I find it easiest to Command-click on the two files I want to compare, then Control-click (or right-click) to get the contextual menu. In there, you'll find Compare. - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Sequential numbering
On 10/23/12 at 10:28 AM, johndelac...@gmail.com (John Delacour) wrote:
On 23/10/2012 10:43, Stuart Gilson wrote:
How do you refer this perl script to a file or files?
The script takes the whole text of the front document as STDIN (input)
unless you have made a selection, in which case it takes the
selection. « while () { ... » means, in effect, while reading the
document/selection line by line.
The other part of the answer is that you save the script with a
memorable name in a text file and put the file in
~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Scripts. It will then show
up in BBEdit's Scripts menu (the one that looks like a scrolling
sheet of paper).
And do feel free to fiddle with the script or ask questions to
understand how it works or how to make variations. This list has
John and a bunch of other smart subscribers, standing by to be helpful.
HTH
- Bruce
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Re: BBEdit 3.5 and Cyberduck
On Saturday, December 15, 2012 6:04:16 AM UTC+11, Dan Poynor wrote: Since updating to 3.5 I'm no longer able to use BBEdit as my preferred editor with Cyberduck FTP client 4.2.1... Cyberduck will launch BBEdit but selected remote files will not open. ... On 12/22/12 at 5:21 PM, uwallr...@tekwizard.net wrote: I'm encountering the same problem with BBedit 10.5 and Cyberduck 4.2.1 - when trying to open files within Cyberduck it opens BBedit but then is not responding any more. Cyberduck and BBedit is a great ... I also use BBEdit's built-in FTP access some of the time, but I agree with you that a dedicated FTP client with Edit in BBEdit is a great tool. I can imagine how frustrating it must be to have your usual setup fail! I assume you've contacted Barebones support and also David Kocher at Cyberduck about this. Meanwhile, have you tried any other FTP clients on your machine? Over here I just checked and everything works fine with Fetch -- currently running Fetch 5.7.3 BBEdit 10.5.1 on OS X 10.8.2. Besides Fetch, another seasoned FTP client many on this list swear by is InterArchy. (My only association with Fetch/InterArchy is that I've used them forever.) Hope you find a solution. Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: Missing ASCII Palette?
On 2013-01-14 at 4:35 PM, leehi...@gmail.com (Lee Hinde) wrote: Sooo, I haven't done this in a while, but the other thing the ascii palette let you do was highlight a character in a document and then see what it is... Is there an equivalent of that? Of course :-) Select the character(s), and then choose the Character Inspector from the Palettes menu, and you'll see the representations of the selected character(s) in Hex, Decimal, Escaped, and Unicode formats. Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit
Re: BBEdit Python
On 2013-02-11 at 2:31 PM, n1mie.c...@gmail.com (Chip G.) wrote: OK, a variation on this worked. When I changed it to a legitimate path on my system it worked. #!/sw/bin/python3.2 Now that's working. But since the examples I had from the author didn't include those, I wonder why I can't get it to work without. I'm not sure what you mean by working without, but there's a key thing here that I hope you get. That first line starting the #! should have a valid path to the interpeter you want to execute the file with. It's not the path of the script file itself, which I think you said in an earlier post. If this isn't familiar, search Wikipedia or somewhere for shebang line. Study what Maaerten said; and I concur with Herbert's guess about why your script worked with 'sw/bin/python3.2' as the shebang path. Lee gave you the way to find the paths to ALL of your Python installs. If you wanted, by the way, to test your script in different versions of Python, you can stack up several shebang lines, and change which one is on the top line to see how the script performs with your different versions. You could even use BBEdit's Move Line Up command to quickly make the change. HTH. Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: executing Text Factory results in the shell
On 2013-02-14 at 3:41 PM, krem...@kreme.com (LuKreme) wrote: Is there a way to execute the lines in the worksheet other than select-all, enter? Not sure if this is quite what you mean, but in my frequent use of BBEdit worksheets, I've evolved this practice: Put the call to your executable or script, with any parameters, and also any notes or reminders (commented out), at the top of the worksheet, on multiple lines if necessary, followed by a line with only #-#-# on it (without the quotes). Then run an applescript (see below) that combines two steps: - the first step selects everything from the line AFTER the line with #-#-#, to the end of the worksheet, and deletes the selection; - the second step selects everything from the start of the worksheet up to and including the line with #-#-#. At that point press Enter (Command-Return on some keyboards), and the executable runs with the provided parameters. If you need to tweak the executable's params before re-running, do so and then call the same applescript again and it will re-select the lines down to the #-#-#, so you may press Enter. BBEdit prints the executable's output starting just below the #-#-# line. My work involves taking batches of data through a sequence of processing steps. I have to examine the (verbose) output of each step before proceeding to the next, and I have to be able to back up steps and replicate or modify the processing. So each process gets its own worksheet, and I use this applescript as I run the process, check the output, and then clear the sheet and re-run if necessary. Once I'm satisfied, I save that process's worksheet with the last output on it, and move to the next process. I found simply using Undo unworkable to get back to the starting position if I had been poking around in the process test results before deciding to re-run the script. This applescript to clear and re-set for execution lets me keep my mind on the data, rather than on the mechanics of processing the data. Saving the worksheet when I'm done automatically documents the last params and the output of their associated test results. The applescript goes in the Application Support/BBEdit/Scripts folder, and I assign it a keyboard command, of course. You can use whatever you want for the #-#-# token. Here is the applescript, which I believe is up-to-date with BBEdit's Applescript dictionary (it definitely works for me with latest BBEdit on Mountain Lion): ## tell application BBEdit activate set mywindow to shell window 1 set myToken to #-#-# -- part 1: clear any previous output set lineX to 100 set lastLine to the number of lines of text of mywindow repeat with i from 1 to lastLine set linetext to contents of line i of text of mywindow if linetext contains myToken then set lineX to i + 1 exit repeat end if end repeat if lineX lastLine then select text from line lineX of text of mywindow to line lastLine of text of mywindow set the selection to end if -- part 2: select the executable lines select text from line 1 of text of mywindow to line lineX of text of mywindow end tell Watch out for email line-wrapping, and my apologies if that was mangled with asterisks the way some people's scripts posted here have been -- someone said that's a G-groups thing?? Here's what the top lines of one of my process worksheets look like (using OS X's standard bash shell): ## get_locations.worksheet Project='Nov2012' base_dir='/Users/eagle/Documents/Data/SC_CO' source_file='v-reg-2012-11-01.txt' precinct_zones_file='precinct_zones.txt' # pct_targets='smith jones sc_schools' pct_targets='smith jones sc_schools wats_schools water_vote' select='all' # select='szSitusCity=Santa Cruz' max='20' # Assumes: precinct_districts.txt, precinct_targets.txt perl /Users/eagle/Documents/lib/get_voter_locations $base_dir $source_file \ $Project $select $pct_targets $precinct_zones_file $max #-#-# [Here's where output will go ...] ## end of worksheet Might be something useful in that for you. HTH Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For
Re: Regaining mindshare for BBEdit
On 2013-03-19 at 3:58 PM, t...@tobsupport.com (Ted Burger) wrote: I am still running 9.6.3 but I simply highlight a word then hit CMD-E, now each CMD-G finds the next occurrence of the word. Not only that: you can assign, say, Command-H to Find Selected Text, which does the same as Command-E Command-G in one step, and after that the highlighted phrase is the search phrase. Am I missing something??? I don't think so. X Editor does Vaguely Described Feature(TM) better than BBEdit. Love it. Just in case we're really missing something, anyone care to define incremental find and explain how it differs from what BBEdit offers? Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: Regaining mindshare for BBEdit
On 2013-03-19 at 5:15 PM, he...@wideopenwest.com (Herbert Schulz) wrote: An incremental search searches and finds AS YOU TYPE YOUR SEARCH rather than waiting until you press Return after entering the full search term. Thanks. So this happens when you're typing your search into a find dialog? And then you jump back to your text to edit? When the incremental search searches and finds as you type, is the found text *selected* or just color highlighted? Whether one might want this seems like a work-style difference among some of us. When I can, I disable search systems that start providing guesses as soon as I type, just as I don't use BBEdit's auto-complete (I think it was MS Word that provided my original pain with this misfeature.) But I suppose plenty must like this behavior... I do a huge amount of searching, especially find the next instance of the selected text without ever opening the find dialog -- just command keys. And Quick Find will visually identify all instances if I need to see them all at once. Even replacements can be set via the keyboard. I turn to the find dialog mostly when I need to compose a regular expression for a search, and/or specify a complicated replacement. Barebones is very responsive to feature requests, especially if they understand your use case and get a clear description of the behavior you want. And some of us totally-mind-clamped BBEditors will grumpily speak up and say Sure, go ahead and request that (weird|crazy|discredited|younger-than-me) feature -- no prob as long as it can be optional. Best Regards, - Bruce _bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz_ca_ -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email supp...@barebones.com rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbedit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups BBEdit Talk group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
