Re: Which text gets passed ot a text-factory

2013-03-01 Thread LuKreme
In our previous episode (Friday, 01-Mar-2013), Maarten Sneep said: > Does the Hard Wrap command work in this way? As far as I can tell it acts on > the whole document if nothing is selected, and strictly on the selection if > there is one. Much like a text filter (yes, I know you're asking for te

Re: Which text gets passed ot a text-factory

2013-03-01 Thread Maarten Sneep
On 1 mrt. 2013, at 20:45, LuKreme wrote: > Text factories, as far as I can tell in my limited use of them, either act on > all the text in the document, or on the selected text. Is there any way to > make a text-factory behave like the Hard Wrap menu item? That is to say, > operate on the cur

Re: Which text gets passed ot a text-factory

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Woolsey
At 22:03 + 03/01/2013, John Delacour wrote: >On 01/03/2013 21:06, Patrick Woolsey wrote: >> At 12:45 -0700 03/01/2013, LuKreme wrote: >>> If BBEdit did not have a Hard Wrap function and you had to recreate it >>> via a text factory, would it be possible? >> >> Not with a text filter, though one

Re: Which text gets passed ot a text-factory

2013-03-01 Thread John Delacour
On 01/03/2013 22:03, I wrote: No, Patrick, this can be done with a text filter. For example: #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Text::Wrap; $Text::Wrap::columns = 72; my @text; while (<>) { push @text, $_ } print wrap('', '', @text); or more simply #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use Text::Wrap;

Re: Which text gets passed ot a text-factory

2013-03-01 Thread John Delacour
On 01/03/2013 21:06, Patrick Woolsey wrote: At 12:45 -0700 03/01/2013, LuKreme wrote: If BBEdit did not have a Hard Wrap function and you had to recreate it via a text factory, would it be possible? Not with a text filter, though one could do this with a suitable script. No, Patrick, this can

Re: Which text gets passed ot a text-factory

2013-03-01 Thread Patrick Woolsey
At 12:45 -0700 03/01/2013, LuKreme wrote: >Text factories, as far as I can tell in my limited use of them, either >act on all the text in the document, or on the selected text. If you mean employing a text factory as a _text filter_[1], that's correct, and these same conditions apply to every type

Which text gets passed ot a text-factory

2013-03-01 Thread LuKreme
Text factories, as far as I can tell in my limited use of them, either act on all the text in the document, or on the selected text. Is there any way to make a text-factory behave like the Hard Wrap menu item? That is to say, operate on the current line/paragraph if nothing is selected? If BBEd