On Jul 29, 2016, at 12:43, Adrian Manea wrote:
> My idea is, indeed, to open a file in an additional window, but I want the
> project folders, tree and navigation in both of them, if possible.
Hey Adrian,
I doubt the developers will be interested in implementing that
On Jul 29, 2016, at 12:03, Adrian Manea wrote:
> Is there any way I could have the same sidebar contents for both of the
> windows (basically, the full project), if I've opened two files from the same
> project?
Hey Adrian,
Does Menu-Bar > View > Open in Additional
On Jul 28, 2016, at 11:31, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote:
> I gladly pay for BBEdit anyway since it's such an essential tool to my
> business and at times those more advanced features can save a lot of hassle.
Amen.
Let us not forget that TextWrangler only exists because of the
n the regex, so currently this will only work on a
string that has clear boundaries at beginning and end.
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#
On Jul 06, 2016, at 10:45, Bo wrote:
> How do I sort email addresses by domain name?
Hey Bo,
Use Text > Sort Lines...
Search Pattern:
^.+@(.+)
Sub-Pattern:
\1
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On Jun 18, 2016, at 10:07, Robert wrote:
> Is there a way that BBEdit can use ccrypt to dencrypt and load it in BB? I
> have it in Vim, trying to in BB as well.
Hey Robert,
This appears to work when run as a filter:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
ccrypt --encrypt --key
On Jun 11, 2016, at 18:36, Michael Baker > wrote:
> I'm sorry if I don't understand the perl script enough to follow your attempt
> helping me.
> It might be I didn't explain my task well enough. In case it helps I'll be a
> little
On Jun 09, 2016, at 15:21, Greg Reyna wrote:
> Is there a way to learn the creation date of an unsaved, "untitled text"
> file? I never have reset the numbering so it's up to 191.
Hey Greg,
As has been mentioned a creation date isn't available, however you can get a
Hey Folks,
Another script I've repurposed from the TextWrangler list.
After printing a few pages to PDF I got my Page Guide width pretty close to the
printed page width.
This script toggles the front window between Page Guide [ON] and Soft-Wrap to
Page Guide and the current settings.
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# dCre: 2016/05/18 17:08
# dMod: 2016/05/18 17:13
# Appl: BBEdit & Safari
# Task: Open BBEdit's “Searching with Grep” Chapter in Safari
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @,
On Apr 28, 2016, at 19:13, Richard Cook wrote:
> The 'preview command' is referenced a lot but I cannot find said command.
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Hey Richard,
When looking for commands in an app on OSX the first step is to use
On Apr 21, 2016, at 11:22, Rich Siegel wrote:
> We are pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of BBEdit
> 11.5.2.
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Thanks Rich! :)
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On Apr 18, 2016, at 11:34, TJ Luoma > wrote:
> If I want to _replace_ the contents of the current file, NOT create a
> separate document, I thought this would be what I needed to do as a Text
> Filter
On Apr 17, 2016, at 16:48, captkirk wrote:
> Thanks! That does show me a way of working. It also shows me more limitations!
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Everything has limitations... :)
What exactly are you trying to do?
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On Apr 16, 2016, at 19:50, captkirk wrote:
> BBEdit Projects don't seem to be able to access the list of files in the
> project with Applescript (except for selected files). Folders and their
> contents in the project don't seem to be accessible either.
On Apr 09, 2016, at 12:31, dp wrote:
> When Markdown syntax is selected and the current line begins with a dash, is
> it possible to configure BBEdit to detect that and to begin the next line
> with a dash when the return key is pressed?
Hey Folks,
This is the old lexical vs numeric sort issue.
For those who don't remember the Finder used to have a lexical sort, and it
made everyone nuts for years. (Same with Micro$oft Windows.)
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20021002061850171
For that matter the Finder still
On Mar 21, 2016, at 09:29, Kyle DeMilo wrote:
> Any chance there can be a link, perhaps under the Help menu, to either the
> BBEdit Google Group, or the page on barebones.com that links here?
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Hey
On Mar 09, 2016, at 05:39, László Sándor wrote:
> Funny I could not Google this up.
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Hey László,
Very.
Google: BBEdit splitview El Capitan
First two hits:
Bare Bones Software | TextWrangler FAQs
On Mar 05, 2016, at 13:48, Mark Walker wrote:
> Currently with BBEdit 11 the Search and Find dialogs show up on all desktops.
> Is there a way to configure this so the windows only show up where the app is
> active?
On Feb 23, 2016, at 17:52, Bill Walker wrote:
> I would like to replace large chunks of code bracketed by the same tags in
> many files. I can replace large sections using start and ending tags …
> provided I duplicate the +.*[/r] the correct number of times.
On Feb 23, 2016, at 08:39, Adam Wise >
wrote:
> I'm editing a lot of delimited files in BBEdit & was hoping there was a way
> to space out columns & align them so they look more like an excel sheet...
On Feb 05, 2016, at 09:24, Max Horn >
wrote:
> You probably can use a regular text filter by putting your get-text
> AppleScript in with `osascript`.
>
> Note sure what you mean with that. Perhaps this is a misunderstanding? To
> clarify, I would prefer
On Feb 03, 2016, at 11:28, Max Horn wrote:
> it requires the contents of the whole file. This means that I unfortunately
> cannot (as far as I know) use a regular text filter.
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Hey Max,
You probably can use a
On Jan 26, 2016, at 03:44, Simon Allen wrote:
> I am anew to BBEdit. I want to insert add a space every 5 characters of a
> text file and then group every 2000 characters as a separate page.
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Hello
On Jan 12, 2016, at 14:10, Robert A. Ober wrote:
> Interesting, surprising, and dissapointing. If they can read the formatting
> it would seem that a preview would be fairly easy.
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Hello Robert,
BBEdit
On Jan 14, 2016, at 13:41, Patrick Woolsey wrote:
>> If you want a more full-featured RTF editor and are willing to spend money
>> then take a look at Jedit X.
>
> Or you can just use Pages. :-)
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Hey
On Jan 08, 2016, at 18:04, Lee Hinde wrote:
> I'm doing a Find Differences between two files. I want to copy just the lines
> that are different, from both files, into a new document so I can send that
> to someone.
On Jan 08, 2016, at 20:16, Jaimie Lancaster wrote:
> I recently received a list of contacts in a csv format. (About 1400 pages)
> and I'm trying to get them into Filemaker pro.
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Hey Jaimie,
Your
ds,
Chris
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# dCre: 2015/05/07 01:05
# dMod: 2016/01/07 00:22
# Appl: Finder, Safari
# Task: Open BBEdit's Expert Preferences Help in Safari
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @Finder, @Safa
On Dec 29, 2015, at 18:52, Richard Fairbanks wrote:
> Please excuse me for not being more clear; I assumed that this had been
> covered at length, long ago, but searching the archives was unsuccessful.
>
> The issue is that all prior versions of BBEdit kept any given window
On Dec 27, 2015, at 16:55, Richard Fairbanks wrote:
> Months ago, I bumped from BBEdit 9 to 11, and a minor annoyance is that when
> I open an existing text document, the window now gets tiled to the right (or
> not . . . ).
>
> I would like it to stop doing this, but have
nd pasting X times?
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Hey Lee,
No. At least not built-in.
You can do it with an AppleScript though.
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# dCre: 2015/12/17 17:37
# dMod
On Dec 09, 2015, at 09:34, Joska Moeller wrote:
> Is there any possibility to apply such a script to a bunch of files at once
> (multi-file)?
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Hey Josch,
Try recording a multi-file search in BBEdit
On Dec 07, 2015, at 09:44, Kerri Hicks wrote:
> While a little more involved than I think you're asking for, this has helped
> me a lot:
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Hey Kerri,
You can skip a couple of steps.
Once you select
On Dec 05, 2015, at 15:04, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
> I’ve made a Keyboard Maestro - macro for only the above steps
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Hey Vlad,
Good idea.
Those who don't have Keyboard Maestro can save an AppleScript to the
On Nov 26, 2015, at 18:24, Achim Siebert wrote:
> You can just type your python program into BBEdit, save it as myapp.py or
> some such, and press Cmd+R to run it. BBEdit will open a window with the
> output.
On Nov 28, 2015, at 11:48, Bob Futrelle wrote:
> The default appears to be a blank document that reaches all the way to the
> bottom of the screen.
> I rarely need that. Plus, it covers up other items on the screen. How do I
> set that size?
On Nov 12, 2015, at 11:05, TJ Luoma wrote:
> Or you can go pure AppleScript which will not affect the selection.
>
> tell application "BBEdit"
> tell front text document
> tell its text to replace "[[:blank:]]+$" using "" options {search
> mode:grep, starting at
On Nov 11, 2015, at 14:32, TJ Luoma wrote:
> BUT THEN I decided that I wanted it to automatically save, but that never
> seemed to work _until_ I got a little sneaky.
>
> I used `zsh's` ability to fork and abandon a sub-shell using ( this ) &|
On Nov 10, 2015, at 04:23, Robert Livingston wrote:
> Thanks for chiming in. The problem is that I have to monitor the
> replacements. Sometimes they are appropriate. Sometimes not.
>
> What I am doing is editing an OCR'ed document. There are certain patterns
> that are
On Sunday, November 8, 2015 at 6:00:53 AM UTC-8, Robert Livingston wrote:
I am trying to automate a task with the help of Keyboard Maestro.
I start in another program. I fill in the pieces of the Find dialogue window.
That works fine. I can start searching and replacing in the last BBEdit
n Support/BBEdit/Scripts/
Name it exactly this:
00)Favorite Files
Save this script as a compiled AppleScript using the Script Editor.
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On Nov 03, 2015, at 21:16, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
> I’m still moving so I’m doing a lot of lists :-)
> One of them looks like this:
> …
> and I want to change it to this:
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Hey Vlad,
This is not precisely
On Nov 02, 2015, at 10:00, Craig Heilman wrote:
> I use Artistic Style aka astyle although I haven't tried to integrate it with
> BBEdit...
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Hey Craig,
It was easy enough to download from SourceForge and
On Oct 31, 2015, at 18:37, Andrew Davidson wrote:
> I know about that trick, but that wasn't quite what I wanted. That will make
> all .ino files open with BBEdit. I still want the primary choice to be the
> Arduino app, but I just want to have BBEdit be listed as an
And of course you can assign a keyboard shortcut to BBEdit's own Service Menu
item 'Open File in BBEdit'
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On Nov 01, 2015, at 01:22, Russell B wrote:
> I've been trying to convert a Word doc with lots of wonky tab spaces. I
> thought I would fix it by a cut and paste into BBEdit but no luck, the same
> odd spacing appears in BBEdit.
On Oct 28, 2015, at 20:15, Michelle wrote:
> I ended up going with Christopher's solution because there is a lot less code
> and the one-per-line "white list" feature is super convenient and easy to
> edit/use.
On Oct 26, 2015, at 01:06, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
>> You can also use the relatively new feature "Extract" from the Find Dialog.
>>
>> ^.*0B WohnZimmer.*
>
> This doesn’t work:
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Hey Vlad,
I reckon that's
On Oct 26, 2015, at 08:46, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
>> Type Command-B (View -> Balance), then paste. :-)
>
> Ha! That’s amazing! Thanks, Patrick!
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Hey Vlad,
If you do that a lot you can save a keystroke.
On Oct 25, 2015, at 06:00, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
> I want to:
>
> 1.- Fold the whole text and
> 2.- Unfold only the lines that contains "0B WohnZimmer".
> 3.- Select only the unfolded lines
> 4.- Copy them and
> 5.- Paste them in a new file (and generate a list of all the
hijacked Reply's keyboard shortcut and was only about 0.2 seconds slower than a
normal reply.
I had a similar script for editing the junk out of list-mail I wanted to keep.
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> Oh, Carabiner? That sounds right, but it’s not coming up on Google.
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Spelled with a 'K'.
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25141/karabiner
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On Oct 08, 2015, at 10:26, Patrick Woolsey wrote:
> You can bring up the Character palette within many/most apps via the same
> menu command of Edit -> Emoji & Symbols.
>
> Alternatively, you can enable the system-wide Input menu (the 'flag' menu)
> via the Input
for subscript.
In fact I believe there are built-in sets for these.
On the other hand it's easy enough to roll-your-own custom character table:
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On Oct 08, 2015, at 12:54, Patrick Woolsey wrote:
> For reference, you can enter Unicode characters on a Mac by typing via the
> "Unicode Hex Input" method (aka "source").
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Hey Patrick,
Ha! That's
On Oct 08, 2015, at 13:06, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote:
> I must have overwritten this somehow, because it doesn’t work for me :-(
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Hey Vlad,
It doesn't work in BBEdit, but it does in most apps.
You can set a
On Oct 03, 2015, at 16:24, Dave wrote:
> Does anybody see a "Save As Stationery" checkbox in the save dialog when you
> choose "Save As..." from the File menu? I don't.
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Hey Dave,
That bit in the
On Sep 23, 2015, at 15:15, Christopher Stone <listmeis...@suddenlink.net> wrote:
> This can be done with AppleScript with a couple of limitations.
>
> All documents must have been saved.
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Hey Folks,
With P
're good to go.
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# dCre: 2015/09/22 15:33
# dMod: 2015/09/23 15:07
# Appl: BBEdit
# Task: Go to last modified saved document in a project window (excluding front
document).
# Libs: None
# Osax: None
# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @BBEd
Hey Lawrence,
Expert settings are listed in the Help not the manual, but my memory is fuzzy
about v9.
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it's in.
The front Terminal window will be used if it isn't busy, otherwise a new
Terminal window will be opened and used.
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# dM
On Sep 18, 2015, at 17:55, Lawrence San wrote:
> The only refinement I could wish for is if it didn't actually, literally
> bring the Firefox window to the front momentarily before shoving it back
> behind the BBEdit window
> On Sep 18, 2015, at 15:27, San wrote:
> …
> Is there some way to have BBEdit preview/update the current code in the
> _current_ Firefox tab, rather than opening a new one each time?
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Hey Lawrence,
On Sep 09, 2015, at 20:10, Michelle wrote:
> I frequently use long GREPs as part of doing bulk search-and-replace commands
> in thousands of files at once. BBEdit performs an incredibly frustrating and
> inconvenient action every time I click anywhere outside of the search
On Sep 10, 2015, at 09:58, J Hall wrote:
> So here are my Automator Action Steps:
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Hey There,
Automator. Ugh... :)
> It goes through, but even when I'm telling it to use grep, or even replace
> all
On Sep 10, 2015, at 11:37, J Hall wrote:
> I have header and footer information that I need to kill.
>
> The header starts with
>
>
> and ends 150 lines later with
>
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Hey There,
As has been mentioned
On Sep 08, 2015, at 10:58, David Roland-Holst wrote:
> Sorry if this is trivial, but I am editing flat code text files and can't get
> Find All (%G) to highlight or run on the search menu…
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Hey David,
On Aug 26, 2015, at 19:00, Bruce Linde bli...@5happy.com wrote:
tell application System Events
tell process BBEdit
repeat with x from 1 to (count windows)
set this_name to (name of window x) as text
On Aug 24, 2015, at 05:28, 'Holger B' via BBEdit Talk bbedit@googlegroups.com
wrote:
And in that case, text factories FTW ;)
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Hey Holger,
Scripts tend to be faster than text factories.
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On Aug 23, 2015, at 22:00, 'Holger B' via BBEdit Talk bbedit@googlegroups.com
wrote:
See a portion of the file below. The amount of categories as well as tags are
the ones that can vary and getting it in one pass could replace both of them.
I suppose it's not possible in one pass though, but
On Aug 12, 2015, at 15:27, BeeRich33 beer...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to bring into BBEdit, a log file with the most recent modification
date/time.
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Hey There,
Something like this will work.
cd ~/Downloads; # Path to
On Aug 07, 2015, at 20:33, TJ Luoma luo...@gmail.com wrote:
Aside: for reasons I do not understand, when I use the `--resume` option to
the `bbedit` tool from inside a Keyboard Maestro macro, it does not seem to
work, although it used to. However, when I call `bbedit` directly from the
On Jul 02, 2015, at 13:09, dur...@vt.edu wrote:
Umm. Not recently saved, just saved.
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Hey There,
Try Menu-Bar BBEdit Setup
Then go to the Patterns pane of the setup-window.
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On Jun 19, 2015, at 06:35, alessandro bonzi dadop...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been using very old version of bbedit and the PERL scripts used to
smoothly run elsewhere with a sample code (just an example) like:
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Hey Alessandro,
On May 14, 2015, at 19:21, Michelle essayt...@gmail.com wrote:
I just need the list of recently used GREPs to be longer. My hope is that
one of the experts here will know how to increase the limit of 16.
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Hey Michelle,
On May 15, 2015, at 16:17, Michelle essayt...@gmail.com wrote:
What about collapsing the list of recent searches after 16?
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You may already be in the scrolling boat if you have your Find Dialog
positioned low on your monitor.
On May 12, 2015, at 06:51, François Schiettecatte fschietteca...@gmail.com
wrote:
Just ran into a bug with the latest build of BBEdit (3725).
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Hey François,
For comparison see what the Safari Prefs General Default Web
there and wrote a
script access it more easily with a keyboard shortcut from BBEdit.
I gave mine a keyboard shortcut of ⌘⌥⇧^E.
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# dMod
On May 05, 2015, at 20:29, Christopher Jones onechrisjo...@gmail.com wrote:
I think it is a bug or something, but upon 'Processing Duplicate Lines' in a
text factory, It looks like maybe the first instance of duplication gets
completely deleted or something... You can try it on my sample
Hello Christopher,
I think this AppleScript is in the ballpark.
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tell application BBEdit
tell text of front text window
replace ^(.+)[[:punct:]]+$ using \\1 options {search mode:grep, case
On Apr 30, 2015, at 18:44, Christopher Stone listmeis...@suddenlink.net wrote:
The Finder it seems doesn't like moving or duplicating items into a package,
so I had to use the shell in my tests - but that's easy enough.
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I
On Apr 30, 2015, at 01:09, Jan Erik Moström li...@mostrom.pp.se wrote:
but I don't really want to actively save and organize them. So I want to
change my previous approach to write-it, archive-it, forget-it without
having all the notes cluttering my normal folder structure.
On Apr 26, 2015, at 17:30, Bruce Linde bli...@5happy.com wrote:
Ok, just so no one confuses me with an expert bbedit user (or one who
actually rtfm)... i recently got bit by a similar problem when bbedit stopped
autocompleting variable names in a rather large .php script.
I was led gently
On Apr 24, 2015, at 11:13, Watts Martin lay...@gmail.com wrote:
«event ¶erlRFtr» markdown with «class o2sl»
…
Now, you may wonder what that line with event garble markdown with class
garble is, and the answer is: I don't know.
On Apr 12, 2015, at 22:27, Claira Monica claira.mon...@gmail.com wrote:
First, when I use Process Lines Containing, when I click on the Options
button, the only checkbox that is active in the lower area is Delete matched
lines...
On Apr 04, 2015, at 23:40, Ben Klebe benlkl...@gmail.com wrote:
I know how to make actions but the process is tedious because it involves
manually writing a plist.
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Hey Ben,
LaunchBar can run AppleScripts directly, and LB
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# Tags
On Mar 31, 2015, at 02:09, Jean-Christophe Helary
jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to do something like this:
search for (\d)
replace by \1+1
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Hey Jean-Christophe,
As far as I know regex cannot be
On Mar 29, 2015, at 6:32 PM, Ben Klebe benlkl...@gmail.com wrote:
I really appreciate your help and everyone else's. I already own LaunchBar,
how do you manage to integrate it with BBEdit?
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Hey Ben,
A couple of things come
On Mar 22, 2015, at 17:21, Jason Griffin jason.grif...@analog.com wrote:
I'm trying to replace a string of text (in fact I want to remove it in 100
files). Any ideas on the query i need to run here?
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Hey Jason,
Something
On Mar 21, 2015, at 19:17, Marc Wilson posgu...@gmail.com wrote:
TextExpander works with BBEdit. :)
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As does Typinator. But that's no surprise. :)
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On Feb 12, 2015, at 15:00, Alex Satrapa gr...@goldweb.com.au wrote:
I got stuck trying to get the time of day into a useful format.
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Hey Alex,
On Feb 11, 2015, at 10:00, Jimmbo jimleff...@gmail.com wrote:
But my suspicion is that if I can't do the organization, categorization,
classification and tagging within the app (ala Scrivener), I'll wind up right
back at my current cumbersome situation.
On Feb 11, 2015, at 09:54, Jimmbo
On Feb 11, 2015, at 15:13, Jimmbo jimleff...@gmail.com wrote:
Modern apps organize their data.
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This is a ridiculous overgeneralization.
Can BBEdit improve? Sure.
But the developers aren't going to tack a full-scale
On Feb 03, 2015, at 15:01, Lee Hinde leehi...@gmail.com wrote:
Oddly, (to me) once the document is open, you can move it to a new window
from the Currently Open Documents pane. This pane appears below the project
file list, once there are open files.
On Feb 03, 2015, at 01:31, Vlad Ghitulescu v...@ghitulescu.de wrote:
Once in a while I would like to open a file - already listed in a project
window - in a separate, additional window. How to do this?
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Hey Vlad,
Look in
On Jan 30, 2015, at 11:51, Watts Martin lay...@gmail.com wrote:
I use the File Recent menu myself and was happy to see the Recent Documents
box go away, because to me it just took up unnecessary space.
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I feel the same way.
On Jan 26, 2015, at 12:51, iGods camer...@igods.com wrote:
why is it that we can't properly setup a Process Lines Containing step in a
v10 Text Factory?
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Hey Cameron,
If you really want to know then contact the official
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