ChatGPT worksheet contexts

What is the recommended way of including a context while use a ChatGPT worksheet? Just start of with it as your first line? Something else? -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather

Re: help on notes project

I love BBEdit, and I'm sure this could be done with it and some Applescripts, but something like Python seems much better suited. Very easy to write a small script that would cycle through a bunch of text files, extract text based on different criteria, and output things to new text files.

Re: Document revisions question

Am I interpret that as snapshot type file system things and not backup copies in my BBEdit Backups folder that are automatically saved? On Wed, Jan 10, 2024, at 3:29 PM, Rich Siegel wrote: > On 10 Jan 2024, at 15:23, Tim Gray wrote: > >> The new document revisions menu in the nav

Re: BBEdit 15 ChatGPT Worksheets custom url

I had the same experience. Quitting BBEdit and trying again later worked. The first line you send causes a prompt to open where you can enter your API key. On Wed, Jan 10, 2024, at 3:20 PM, Corentin Cras-Méneur wrote: > I tried playing with it as well, but I must be missing something: I >

Document revisions question

The new document revisions menu in the nav bar is great! Where does it pull ‘file system recorded’ versions of the file? Thanks, Tim -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than

Re: CLM question

s > > Open Statement Blocks > > Close Strings 1 > > Close Strings 2 > > Open Strings 1 > > Open Strings 2 > > Stri

Re: Formatting markdown tables in bbedit

I hesitate to share these scripts because I can't really vouch for them being particularly cleaned up, but here they are anyway: https://gist.github.com/tgray/c1392d6e68c24708bba2926c1aacd76f I'm pretty sure I started working from some scripts at Dr. Drang's site:

CLM question

I'm trying to write a codeless language module for an obscure 'language' - keystroke program listings for an HP42S calculator (or the Free42 program as the case may be). I think I've got all the keywords and special characters figured out but am struggling with two things. First, here's a

Re: CLM pattern question

f lines. > > ... > Language Features > > ... > Keyword Pattern > > ... > > ... > > HTH > > Jean Jourdain > On Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 4:44:59 PM UTC+1 Tim Gray wrote: >> I have a question about defining keyword pattern matching

CLM pattern question

I have a question about defining keyword pattern matching in codeless language modules using BBLMKeywordPatterns. Can a pattern be defined to match only words at the beginning of a line? I’m not having much success using the standard ^ regular expression. To give context, I’d like to define

TeX LSP completions

Playing around with the TeX LSP completions and I feel like I'm missing something. I installed texlab via homebrew. texlab is definitely giving suggestions, though unfortunately they are much less "smart" than what I am seeing with the Python LSP completions. Anyway, when I type `\begin` and

Mode line/emacs variables

Is there a list of mode line variables that BBEdit supports? -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: ---

Re: script/text filter advice

in a language I am more comfortable with like Python. Thanks again! On Mon, Aug 30, 2021, at 5:20 AM, Christopher Stone wrote: > On Aug 29, 2021, at 21:12, Tim Gray wrote: >> Is AppleScript the best/most powerful way to script text manipulation based >> on where the cursor current

script/text filter advice

Is AppleScript the best/most powerful way to script text manipulation based on where the cursor currently is? I know Text Filters can be very useful, but only seem to operate on selected text (or the whole document). But I'm looking to modify the current line if nothing is selected or modify

Notes by project

Hi all, Been away from BBEdit for a long time (stuck on Windows computers at work for the last decade). The new Notes feature looks pretty useful for the type of work I do... much less coding than in the past. Is there anyway to use the new feature with a different notebooks for different

Re: A "notebook" for BBEdit?

and folders. As an added bonus, it archives emails nicely. I think I started using it years ago back when I used MailSmith. Those were the days. Tim On Mon, May 21, 2018, at 2:31 AM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: > On 21 May 2018, at 2:02, Tim Gray wrote: > > > Maybe it's an option. &g

Re: GPG encrypt/decrypt scripts?

On Aug 24, 2013 at 09:09 PM -0700, SMcCandlish wrote: I'm pretty sure this simple shell script would fail for any content that contained a double-quote character, since it would prematurely end the $1 structure. External shell scripts for BBEdit as of this writing don't use this sort of $1

Re: Using bbedit with texshop: help requested

On Oct 11, 2012 at 07:25 PM -0700, bob113 wrote: I’m having trouble understanding how to use bbedit as an external editor for texshop. If someone has this working can they point me to the script and explain exactly what I’m supposed to do to get this to work. I’ve looked quite a bit for

Re: Markdown preview issues: Smartypants, Markdown Extra and can't easily style tables

On Jul 01, 2012 at 11:03 PM -0700, Shawn wrote: To be honest I'm trying to resist purchasing another tool to do something that a tool that I already own is supposed to do. Not wanting to start an argument, but in my mind, BBEdit does what it says it will do in this case - gives you a live

Re: Markdown preview issues: Smartypants, Markdown Extra and can't easily style tables

On Jun 29, 2012 at 10:50 AM -0700, Shawn wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use BBEdit as my primary Markdown editor and I'm running in to a few blockers. I hope I can get a little help with this. I'd like to use something that I already own instead of loading up another tool. I know it's a separate

Re: A request for a future version: repeat last command.

On Aug 03, 2011 at 11:25 PM -0600, LuKreme wrote: What’s the last thing I did? Type this word? This line? This paragraph? This entire reply? where is the break between the current thing I did and the last thing I did? In an editor without a specific insert state and a specific command state it

Re: What's the BBEdit Sales Pitch?

On Jul 28, 2011 at 07:20 AM -0700, Greg Shenaut wrote: Personally, if BBedit had a “vi mode” allowing the use of the legacy vi keystrokes in a document window, I might use it sometimes, but I'm generally glad for the greater consistency of the GUI mode, coupled with an otherwise satisfactory

Re: What's the BBEdit Sales Pitch?

On Jul 28, 2011 at 04:13 PM +0100, John Delacour wrote: What do these motions achieve? Something that cannot be achieved with scripts/keystrokes in BBEdit. I doubt it, but am always ready to be The ability to delete or copy a sentence or word or paragraph or the inner contents of a set of

Re: What's the BBEdit Sales Pitch?

On Jul 28, 2011 at 10:38 AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: Can we use BBEdit to compose email in Mail.app? :-) I use mutt for much of my email in no small part because I can also use vim for composition. Indeed. Look up Quick Cursor. With respect to mutt, I've used BBEdit to compose my mail

Re: What's the BBEdit Sales Pitch?

On Jul 28, 2011 at 06:58 PM +0100, John Delacour wrote: But you do need to change mode, which requires some action on your part other than simple thought-transference. There's no point in getting a big discussion about modal versus non-modal editors. I'm sure it's all been had many, many

Re: What's the BBEdit Sales Pitch?

On Jul 28, 2011 at 02:07 PM -0500, Fritz Anderson wrote: There's syntax coloring for LaTeX, there are clippings that I've extended, and I use the worksheet to do builds, but I'm not aware of anything specific. Where should I be looking? I always use the CompileTeX scripts. I modified them a

Re: What's the BBEdit Sales Pitch?

On Jul 28, 2011 at 10:04 PM +0200, Maarten Sneep wrote: I guess those are the scripts that I originally wrote [1]. Curious to see what you added. Yes, they are. Most of the changes I made were to remove a bunch of functions I never used. I also think I modified the 'open file' function so

Re: What am I missing in BBEdit 10?

On Jul 22, 2011 at 11:21 AM -0400, Steve Kalkwarf wrote: As written, and tested during the beta cycle, dragging an image into an HTML document inserts complete and correct markup: img src=file://localhost/Users/kalkwarf/Pictures/Fabulous%20Dog.jpg alt=Fabulous Dog.jpg width=1280 height=960

Re: What am I missing in BBEdit 10?

On Jul 22, 2011 at 06:42 PM +0100, John Delacour wrote: Type control-command-n, type return, drag an image from the Finder to the insersion point. Are you saying that produces nothing? That's what happens for me. The jpg icon gains a green plus badge once the cursor is in the BBEdit html

Re: What am I missing in BBEdit 10?

On Jul 22, 2011 at 06:55 PM +0100, John Delacour wrote: Well it works fine here in 10.6.7 so perhaps it's a Lion thing, something I'll be in a position to tell in about 5 years' time. Yes, I'm on Lion. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion

Re: What am I missing in BBEdit 10?

On Jul 22, 2011 at 12:06 PM -0700, Ken Lanxner wrote: For those who get nothing dragging an image file, what about dragging another html file to get an anchor tag? That does work for me (although it also opens the dragged file and changes focus to it). Yes, that worked for me too. Though

Re: What am I missing in BBEdit 10?

On Jul 22, 2011 at 05:04 PM -0400, Steve Kalkwarf wrote: We'll fix it in code before 10.0.1 is final, but as a workaround you can go to the terminal, and type these two commands: defaults delete com.barebones.bbedit HTMLImageDropMarkup_UseFilenameForAlternativeText defaults delete

Re: Does BBEdit 10 support GIT?

On Jul 20, 2011 at 12:54 AM -0700, Filipp Lepalaan wrote: I've always wondered about the need to have version control integrated into a text editor. While it would maybe make sense in a larger IDE, in this context it's pretty much pointless, especially on OSX. Just use Git on the command line as

Re: Does BBEdit 10 support GIT?

On Jul 20, 2011 at 10:06 AM -0400, Zajkowski, James wrote: There's also GitHub for Mac (github.com/mac) - which, although the name suggests otherwise - works fine with non-GitHub hosted repos. Yes, it is pretty nice. This is off-topic obviously, but is there a way to make it recognize

Re: Does BBEdit 10 support GIT?

On Jul 20, 2011 at 01:09 PM -0500, Lorin Rivers wrote: GitHub has a free git thing too. Indeed. I had forgotten that and gitx. My original reply prompted me to download the trial of Tower and play around with the Github client some more. I think I'll stick with the command line and gitx,

Re: Need Version Management System Recommendations

On Jul 12, 2011 at 10:34 PM -0400, Jack Stewart wrote: I am about to select a version management system for my Mac and used for version management of web site pages and database management systems. I've bee staring at CVS, Subversion and Perforce. There are probably others. I've used svn for

Re: TextMate to BBEdit switchers guide?

On May 09, 2011 at 05:55 AM -0700, Ryan Wilcox wrote: The nice thing about TextMate is that the clippings/filters/etc etc for a technology are grouped into a bundle. Download the Ruby on Rails bundle and you get everything you might want. Maybe we could put in a request to BareBones to think

Re: Preview advantages

On May 03, 2011 at 12:09 PM -0700, David Brostoff wrote: I recently tried the BBEdit free trial but didn't really see anything that I needed. One of the killer BBEdit features for HTML in my mind is the Tag Maker and Edit Tag functions. They are under the Markup menu. I have them bound to

Re: Can BBEdit run a command/script on document save?

On Apr 26, 2011 at 09:44 AM -0700, Jake wrote: Running the unit tests is a single unix command, so I was wondering if there was a way in BBEdit to have it run a unix command or apple script after saving a file? I would look on pages 310-314 in the manual. Attaching scripts to menus and

Re: Copy Paste Wrap

On Apr 21, 2011 at 10:54 AM -0700, Bo wrote: Is there a way to paste / wrap. for example, I select the word 'frack' in an html document is it somehow possible for me to copy strong/strong tags, then paste 'over' the selected text to wrap the selected text with the tags? You can do this with

Re: Annoying window problem

On Apr 11, 2011 at 08:53 AM -0500, Christopher Stone wrote: I hadn't bothered with this, because it used to produce a window unattached to any visible application and could disappear. Now it shows up as a full-fledged app. Much better. No problem. I hate that floating window. I invariable

Re: Need script or method to create a sitemap or site index

On Mar 22, 2011 at 08:52 AM -0600, LuKreme wrote: /bin/myscript | bbedit Works for me Not if you run your script from the #! menu in BBEdit and have it Run in Terminal set. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To

Re: Need script or method to create a sitemap or site index

On Mar 21, 2011 at 08:27 AM -0400, Rich Siegel wrote: When you run a script or filter from the #! menu, BBEdit sets up some variables in the environment, one of which is BB_DOC_PATH, the path to the front document. As far as I can tell, these variables are only implemented for filters and

Re: Need script or method to create a sitemap or site index

On Jan 15, 2011 at 12:02 AM -0800, BBunny wrote: The Misc menu in previous versions of BBEdit contained an index feature, which generated a hierarchical index—in other words, a sitemap —of a Web site, with live links to the pages. With version 9.6, that feature has been eliminated. Can anyone

Re: Need script or method to create a sitemap or site index

On Mar 21, 2011 at 12:57 PM +1100, Charlie Garrison wrote: What sort of integration is missing? What does Textmate do that BBEdit doesn't? I run unix scripts (perl in my case) from BBEdit every day. Between the Run Script command and worksheets ( filters as you mentioned) I don't feel like I'm

Re: Windows text editor

On Nov 16, 2010 at 04:34 PM +0100, Roland Küffner wrote: And of course it is never too late to start learning vim ;-) I don't use much Windows, or vim for that matter, but this is a good suggestion in my eyes. It's installed everywhere, and if it isn't, can be installed. I decided to make

Re: New HTML document

On Oct 14, 2010 at 09:02 AM -0700, Linda wrote: Are there plans for updating BBEdit to include HTML5 documents? There was a big thread on this a couple of weeks ago, and I thought it was mentioned that Barebones is looking into it. Of course, if you want it, the best thing to do is to send

Re: #mark in Python

On Oct 13, 2010 at 04:10 PM +1100, Alex Satrapa wrote: On 13/10/2010, at 15:12 , Tim Gray wrote: As for me? I'll just crawl back into my cave and wait until one of the BBEdit folks chimes in to tell us that Python is the One True Language that gets all the love :) I'm sorry. I totally missed

Re: #mark in Python

On Oct 13, 2010 at 11:38 AM +1100, Alex Satrapa wrote: # Stuff # #mark floogle # #bbmark frobnate I stumbled upon this too. You can't have it in that order. Your mark line needs to come at the top of a comment block: # #mark floogle # comment body comment body comment body comment body

Re: #mark in Python

Whoops, something got mangled in my formatting. It should have looked like this: # #mark floogle # comment body comment body comment body comment body comment body # comment body comment body comment body comment body comment body -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

Re: #mark in Python

On Oct 13, 2010 at 03:53 PM +1100, Charlie Garrison wrote: I haven't been following this thread too closely. And I'm not familiar with this feature. Are you saying that the above marker/comment block in a perl file should create an entry in the function popup? Not sure about perl. It works

#mark in Python

I seem to recall there being some syntax for comments along the lines of; #mark label which would cause 'label' to appear in the function popup. I'm specifically asking for the case of Python files. Any help on the proper syntax would be appreciated. I know this exists for TeX files ('%:

Re: Line Spacing

On Sep 23, 2010 at 05:05 AM -0700, ryentzer wrote: Does anyone know of a way to do this? I looked in Applescript but didn't see where this was even an option. I thought it might be an option in the fonts panel under View - Text Display, but I was wrong. I know some OS X programs let you

Re: BBedit and Transmit

On Aug 18, 2010 at 09:55 AM -0400, Derik DeLong wrote: That's a function of Transmit. I want to say that it's the difference between double click being set to Open with instead of Edit with, but I'm not at a computer with Transmit at the moment. Not sure about Transmit, but that's how

Re: Pasting contents from Mail

On Jul 09, 2010 at 08:33 AM -0700, JustinL wrote: For a while now, and i don't know if it was a change in bbedit or a change in Mail, when I copy 1 or more emails in Mail, bbedit merely highlights the menu (as if it's trying to paste), and after a short pause nothing appears. Further, and not

Re: GPG encrypt/decrypt scripts?

On Jun 05, 2010 at 02:19 AM -0500, Adam Turetzky wrote: Is anyone aware of scripts for GPG encrypt/decrypt text using BBEdit? There are Applescripts for this for Mailsmith. I'm sure you could adapt those to BBEdit pretty easily. Alternately, you should be able to write a shell script that

Re: RegEx how to?

On May 11, 2010 at 02:49 PM -0500, Lorin Rivers wrote: I think it can be done with grep, but I am not a Jedi in that art. I think would be better tackled with Perl, Python, or Awk. Could be wrong though. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion

Re: new file prefs

On May 07, 2010 at 07:54 AM -0700, code muncher wrote: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put a preference in to allow the setting of a default document size and/or position. Does not Window-Save Default Window work? Make a new document, size it to your liking, and try that command... -- You received

Re: Find Differences Report?

On May 03, 2010 at 08:06 AM -0700, Scout wrote: Is there a way to generate a text report of these differences? I'd like to see each of the results shown in the Differences window, followed by the new and old content. From the command line, try diff oldfile newfile | bbedit. You can then just

Re: Find Differences Report?

On May 03, 2010 at 08:22 AM -0700, Steven Seiller wrote: Wow! Not pretty, but certainly works. All these years of installing the command line tool and I've never used it. Now I have reason to. You can also automatically apply diff's output to modify a file using the patch command. Google

Re: Using BBEdit as an external editor for Mail

On Apr 29, 2010 at 11:54 PM -0400, Matt Martini wrote: Does anyone know a way to use BBEdit as an external editor for Mail.app? I use it as an external editor for mutt. The editor in Mail is the primary reason I don't use Mail. I used to use Mailsmith, which is almost perfect, but the lack

Re: 9.5 - problem in html syntax coloring

On Apr 28, 2010 at 06:54 AM -0700, stratboy wrote: If they're smart enough to promote new releases in this group, I guess they're smart enough to carefully read bug reports here. Anyway, if I'll have the time, I'll follow your suggestion. Thank you. They like an official email. That way it

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 9.5

On Apr 27, 2010 at 11:24 AM -0400, Rich Siegel wrote: We are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of BBEdit 9.5. Looks great! I would suggest making this optional, at least by a defaults write command: When you first save a file which begins with a shebang line,

Re: BBEdit git/mercurial

On Mar 19, 2010 at 01:09 PM -0500, Lorin Rivers wrote: I searched the google group, did some googling, and basically came up empty. I'm contemplating one of the DSVNs for a project and was wondering how people who use those AND BBEdit handle their workflows. I've been using git with BBEdit

Re: How to disable Do you really want to open 30 files?

On Wed 11, Nov'09 at 8:34 AM -0500, Steve Kalkwarf wrote: I thought this was in the Expert Preferences Worksheet Stationery The what? Where is this Stationery? Sounds useful... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To

Re: using arguments (argv) for running script from within BBEdit?

On Tue 7, Jul'09 at 6:59 AM -0700, 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? You could do a little if/then statement in the beginning of your script to inspect sys.argv and see what

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

I just learned about the scripting menu in Xcode. Some pretty nifty features in there. For those not familiar, click on the scripts menu and select teh Edit User scripts command. Flip through the scripts. This is the kind of functionality I'd really like in BBEdit. The ability to run scripts

Re: GREP Find and Replace... half

I just realized you might only be looking for 1 digit followed by a space. If you only ever want to match one digit use: (\d)\s with the same replace string. The previous pattern will match one or more digits. Which you may or many not want. On Jun 23, 6:40 pm, Tim Gray tg...@125px.com wrote

Re: GREP Find and Replace... half

Find: (\d+)\s Replace: \1/tdtd It won't work on the last set of digits if there is no space following it... On Jun 23, 5:49 pm, derol derolf...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to figure out a way to find using a wild card, and replace only half of my find string, leaving the wild card intact.

Re: replacing LaTeX footnotes with html footnotes

You could do this with a perl script. I wrote a script the other year that did essentially this, except as a preprocessor for Markdown. I just edited it and mailed it to you. Hopefully it does what you want. On Jun 20, 8:33 pm, outis pastorba...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Is there a way to do

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

On Jun 19, 2:39 am, Charlie Garrison garri...@zeta.org.au wrote: If you have the current characters/lines, file path, etc available in ENV in a unix script, what do you want to do with that info? If the document is not saved, I can't count on the on-disk version being the same, so current

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

On Jun 19, 2:54 am, G. T. Stresen-Reuter tedmaster...@gmail.com wrote: So, would a set of clippings for doing completion of Python functions/ methods be useful to you? Also, the manual has a very complete reference on how to create   clippings. I think small clippings sets for each

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

On Jun 19, 8:46 am, G. T. Stresen-Reuter tedmaster...@gmail.com wrote: Why is that? Is it possible that although it includes the kitchen sink   that it's simply too much for most of my needs? I understand what you mean. I do a lot of LaTeX and found a very comprehensive set for it years ago.

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

On Jun 16, 8:57 pm, G. T. Stresen-Reuter tedmaster...@gmail.com wrote: If you can give a concrete example of a missing usage, I'm sure   someone can produce (or find) a clipping that can do it. That's kind of the point. If there were some nice built in examples, people might get ideas on how

Re: git support?

I started using git recently and haven't been able to find much. My big request would be to have BBEdit's compare differences function (and bbdiff) be able to be used for git's merging. Comparing revisions would be nice too. There is a GUI program called gitx which is decent that you should

BBEdit capabilities and scripting

I use BBEdit a lot for several different tasks and really find it irreplaceable. I have a couple of comments/questions about it though. This is more meant to generate discussion; are there things that I'm missing? Are there things we could do as a community (maybe with the help of Barebones)

Re: Placeholders and HTML

:00 AM, Tim Gray wrote: Does #relative# get calculated somehow using what's in the base tag? Yes, it does. (This is necessary because all relative URLs in the   document will ultimately be resolved against the base href.) I notice that when I have another placeholder in base href

Re: Placeholders and HTML

, Jim Correia corr...@barebones.com wrote: On May 18, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Tim Gray wrote: I've got a small site that I'm making that I'd like to use some HTML placeholders in.  They all seem to be working except for the #base_url# and #relative# placeholders.  I'm specifically interested

Re: Placeholders and HTML

Does #relative# get calculated somehow using what's in the base tag? I notice that when I have another placeholder in base href=..., #relative# doesn't update. If I take the other placeholder out (or the base tag), it does work. On May 26, 12:49 am, Tim Gray tg...@125px.com wrote: Sorry

Re: Using SSH with BBEdit

On May 6, 11:58 am, Jonathan Lundell jlund...@pobox.com wrote: Various ftp/sftp clients (Interarchy, RBrowser, Fetch, Transmit)   coexist nicely with BBEdit as well. Fugu falls into this category, but   it makes me a little nervous that the last version came out in 2005. Since no one

Re: BBEdit 9.1

Just wanted to say the new FTP implementation is nice and FAST. Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

Re: BBEdit 9.1

Looks like a nice font. I switched back to ProFont though. Haha. It is nice however to have a good, antialiased monospaced font for when I need to display at sizes larger than 9 pts. On Dec 15, 1:10 pm, Morbus Iff mor...@disobey.com wrote: I've used Monaco 9 in the past. I've just set

Re: something simple

This should be very easy to whip up with a shell script. I have something very similar already written, but it renames files in the format basename_counter.ext instead of just counter.ext. I'll paste it below so you can see how its done (delimited by --). One could modify it to do what you

Re: New find key commands?

Don't I feel like a dummy. Found them in the search menu. haha. On Sep 5, 2:23 pm, Tim Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've looked but I'm not seeing them.  I did manage to find the new key combos for use grep, lower case, etc, but I what the heck are the combos for Find All and Replace All