Re: Compare Two Front Documents?

2008-11-25 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Auto Save Default Window

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Auto Save Default Window

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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.

Re: Grep Pattern

2008-12-19 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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:

RE: Automatically Reload Documents

2008-12-31 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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.

Re: default font based on filetype/suffix?

2009-01-23 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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?

Re: Option Select Line Jumps

2009-03-03 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Option Select Line Jumps

2009-03-03 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Option Select Line Jumps

2009-03-05 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: [ANN] LottoCal 1.0

2009-04-01 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: CSS Autocomplete

2009-04-23 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Can this be done with Bedit ?

2009-04-26 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Using SSH with BBEdit

2009-05-05 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Ignore line endings

2009-05-10 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Ignore line endings

2009-05-10 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: How do I add all .c files to a project?

2009-05-10 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Ignore line endings

2009-05-13 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Find fuction STILL deficient

2009-07-06 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

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

2009-07-07 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Not able to record applescripts in Snow Leopard

2009-09-12 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Line endings with Unix servers

2009-09-30 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Spanning line endings

2009-10-16 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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).

Re: Sorting fortune file

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Sorting fortune file

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Sorting fortune file

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Sorting fortune file

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Sorting fortune file

2009-10-18 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Sorting fortune file

2009-10-19 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Sorting fortune file

2009-10-19 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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.

Re: FTP File Mappings?

2009-11-08 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: How to Run a line of code in external program

2010-01-13 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Perl sub curiosity

2010-01-21 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Using Tab to indent lines

2010-01-22 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Fwd: Re: Are you working on a next bbedit version?

2010-04-20 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Upgraded from 8.72 to 9.5 and have a question about search from top

2010-04-29 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Multiple HTML tag selection and delete with BBEdit Mac

2010-06-03 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Scrolling while selecting - very slow.

2010-08-11 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Saved window state frustration

2010-08-13 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Grep Help.

2010-09-09 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Still puzzled by Find Differences: Compare Folders

2010-10-09 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: search: not beginning-of-line followed by string

2010-12-15 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Scratchpad like window for Unix Script Output?

2010-12-21 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Scratchpad like window for Unix Script Output?

2010-12-21 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Applescript: Execute a line in a worksheet

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Applescript: Execute a line in a worksheet

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Applescript: Execute a line in a worksheet

2011-02-08 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: BBEdit livelocks accessing no-longer-mounted SMB volume's file...

2011-02-27 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Feature requests: vertical split; opening different documents in a split window

2011-02-28 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Feature requests: vertical split; opening different documents in a split window

2011-03-03 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Feature requests: vertical split; opening different documents in a split window

2011-03-03 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Change file permissions and ownership.

2011-04-16 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Possible, worthwhile to port Solarized for use with BBEdit?

2011-04-17 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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.

Re: GREP Cleanup

2011-05-10 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: GREP Cleanup

2011-05-10 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: DTD Question

2011-07-11 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: BBEdit 10 Color Scheme Issues

2011-07-25 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Per document tab widths

2011-07-27 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: How to sync BBEdit to Dropbox?

2011-08-02 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Document Info in BBEdit 10

2011-08-02 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: I already miss the documents drawer (sniff)

2011-08-04 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: changes to Find

2011-08-06 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Scripts that report information about selected text?

2011-08-10 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Edit multiple documents in split view?

2011-08-10 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 10.0.1

2011-08-10 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Behavior of Find/Multi file Find - need help changing it

2011-08-11 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Behavior of Find/Multi file Find - need help changing it

2011-08-11 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Solution for Black Pointer on Dark Background

2011-08-17 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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_ --

Re: No authenticated open/save in the App Store version

2011-08-18 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Projects and mounted servers

2011-08-18 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: GREP/Regex for dummies?

2011-09-06 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Code folding breaking? (php)

2011-10-17 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Code folding breaking? (php)

2011-10-18 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Search and replace based on a custom dictionary file

2011-10-27 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: BBEdit 10.1.1 (3127) pre-release

2011-12-12 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Select part of frontmost document

2011-12-24 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: code folding in Perl

2012-01-04 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: How to invoke paragraph symbol in BBEdit?

2012-01-05 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: App hangs when doing multi file search

2012-02-16 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: bbedit project files + other files on same fullscreen

2012-03-23 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: PageUp/PageDown does not work properly in 10.1.1

2012-03-26 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: BBEdit strips spaces from the ends of my lines when it saves the file

2012-03-27 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Latency issues

2012-04-04 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Replace All key equivalent has stopped working

2012-04-06 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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,

Re: How to expand tabs to align text

2012-05-21 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Content of default shell worksheet

2012-05-27 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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:

Re: BBEdit looks quite bad on Retina MBP

2012-06-16 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: File Drawer

2012-06-28 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: grep replace string puzzle

2012-07-02 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: BBEdit looks quite bad on Retina MBP

2012-08-01 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: grep help

2012-08-06 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Grep pattern for multi line /* ... */ blocks

2012-10-01 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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:

Re: BBEdit No Longer Opens Files in Transmit FTP

2012-10-04 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Drag files from within BBEdit to Find Differences dialog

2012-10-19 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Sequential numbering

2012-10-23 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: BBEdit 3.5 and Cyberduck

2012-12-23 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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,

Re: Missing ASCII Palette?

2013-01-14 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: BBEdit Python

2013-02-11 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: executing Text Factory results in the shell

2013-02-14 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Regaining mindshare for BBEdit

2013-03-19 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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

Re: Regaining mindshare for BBEdit

2013-03-19 Thread Bruce Van Allen
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?

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