Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-23 Thread Harold Tessmann III
Maarten Sneep maarten.sn...@xs4all.nl typed something resembling: Harold Tessmann III schreef: Someone else has pointed out that BBEdit doesn't respond to AppleEvents while running a UNIX script or filter, but does it respond to them while running an AppleScript (he asks at work, with only

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-23 Thread Tim Gray
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: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-22 Thread Carlton Gibson
On 21 Jun 2009, at 23:04, G. T. Stresen-Reuter wrote: I've got something in the works... Do you think it's worth us (I mean all on the list) having a Google Code repository or something? (BB: is it worth you guys setting us up a Wiki or something?)

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-19 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:30 PM, Tim Gray tg...@125px.com wrote: 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

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-19 Thread Tim Gray
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

2009-06-19 Thread Tim Gray
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

2009-06-19 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:06 PM, Tim Gray wrote: 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

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-19 Thread Patrick Woolsey
Maarten Sneep maarten.sn...@xs4all.nl sez: [...] No, that is the *only* thing that is missing. While BBEdit is running a unix script or filter, it will not respond to AppleEvents. [...] This limitation - and the wish to resolve it - is already in the request database, but to the best of my

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-19 Thread Carlton Gibson
Hi Ted, This continues a discussion we were having last year about refining the PHP clippings set (which alas my own work, wife and child — and my need to decode your excellent XSLT — inhibited progress on...) I use the PHP clippings all the time (they're a god send when it comes to

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-19 Thread Tim Gray
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

2009-06-19 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
On Jun 19, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Carlton Gibson wrote: Hi Ted, I use the PHP clippings all the time (they're a god send when it comes to remembering function signatures: Which one is it this time: needle-haystack or haystack-needle? Who knows? God bless PHP! ;-) My thoughts on them,

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting (and clipping sets)

2009-06-19 Thread G. T. Stresen-Reuter
On Jun 19, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Tim Gray wrote: 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

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Gray
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: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-18 Thread Harold Tessmann III
Tim Gray tg...@125px.com typed something resembling: On Jun 17, 2:00 am, Charlie Garrison garri...@zeta.org.au wrote: Can you give an example? Between all of the following I'm not sure what else I'd want for UNIX connectivity: - unix filters - unix scripts Unix scripts for sure are

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-17 Thread Charlie Garrison
Good afternoon, On 16/06/09 at 7:03 PM -0600, Doug McNutt dougl...@macnauchtan.com wrote: Let's have a real UNIX connectivity. Have a look at Linux' gedit tools. They are anything but perfect but a wise software supplier could easily increase the capabilities of the linkage. And there are

Re: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-17 Thread Maarten Sneep
Charlie Garrison schreef: And of course if you are willing to include osascript/osacompile in the mix, then pretty much anything you can think of (that is at all scriptable) should be possible. No, that is the *only* thing that is missing. While BBEdit is running a unix script or filter, it

BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-16 Thread Tim Gray
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: BBEdit capabilities and scripting

2009-06-16 Thread Doug McNutt
At 17:40 -0700 6/16/09, Tim Gray wrote: A whole lot of good stuff Amen! Let's have a real UNIX connectivity. Have a look at Linux' gedit tools. They are anything but perfect but a wise software supplier could easily increase the capabilities of the linkage. And there are those who accept only