Re: Find and Delete Lines Containing More Than x Number of Characters

Thank you very much, Kevin. Very helpful. I tried something like that earlier, but it didn’t work. I guess I just didn’t get the syntax quite right. Kind Regards,  -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email

Find and Delete Lines Containing More Than x Number of Characters

Hello Everyone, The title says it all. I need to delete all lines containing MORE than x number of characters. How would I implement this? Or how about if I want to delete lines containing LESS than x number of characters? Thank you! Kind regards, Bill Kochman -- This is the BBEdit Talk

Re: Displaying Code Page 437

Thanks for the info from “The OldSchool PC Font Resource” site. You may possibly be on to something. Who knows. But, whatever the case may be, and regardless of why Hermes rejects the ANSI codes I try to paste into my screens, as I said previously, it just forces me to make my screens the way

Re: Displaying Code Page 437

who has tried to help. And, Rich, sorry if we got a bit off-topic with this.  Kind regards, Bill Kochman -- 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. Foll

Displaying Code Page 437

Hello Folks, I recently resurrected — probably for the fourth time — my PC-ANSI-based BBS, which I first began running in 1993. So, I am remaking all of my ANSI screens from screenshots I took back in 2015, which is when I last ran my board. My question is the following: Can BBEdit properly

Re: Problem With Zapping Gremlins Settings

Thanks for the tips, Rich. I’ll let you know if your ideas work after I’ve had a chance to test for a while. Kind regards, Bill Kochman, Administrator Bill’s Bible Basics wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.billkochman.com > On Jan 18, 2024, at 8:12 AM, Rich Siegel wrote: > > On 17

Problem With Zapping Gremlins Settings

ve to take the extra step of proofing the text after zapping the gremlins. So my question is this: What settings should I be using in the Zap Gremlins dialog so that the apostrophes are not removed from the copied text? Right now, the settings look like what you see in the image below:  Kind rega

Re: Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

to create an up-to-date list of the aliases on the spot, so thank you for that. I appreciate all of your contributions to myself, and to everyone else on this list as well. :) Kind regards, Bill Kochman, Administrator Bill’s Bible Basics / Christian Social Network wordweaver...@gmail.com https

Re: Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

the open windows data in BBEdit, I will be keeping a backup copy of both ~/Library/BBEdit and also ~/Library/Application Support/. Kind regards, Bill Kochman, Administrator Bill’s Bible Basics / Christian Social Network wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.billkochman.com https://www.csnet.live

Re: Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

. I simply need an answer to that one simple question. Thus, I did not see the need to bother Rich and Patrick with it, when I am sure that they are busy with much more important matters. However, if no one here can answer my question, then, yes, I will write directly to them. Kind regards, Bill

Re: Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

they are unexpectedly lost due to one of these unanticipated — and forced — system reboots. There is a lot going on, on my machine on any given day, so I don’t even mess with trying to figure out why these reboots occasionally occur. Kind regards, Bill Kochman, Administrator Bill’s Bible Basics

Re: Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

Bruce, I may end up doing that. But then, they are probably reading this thread already anyway. :) I didn’t know that about Maytag people. But now you’ve got me wondering. Does Rich just wait for something to fix? Or does he hope that nothing ever breaks? :) Kind regards, Bill Kochman

Re: Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

. Sometimes they occur while I am asleep, or at least away from my computer. To date, I have no reason to believe that they are related to BBEdit. I think the BBEdit window losses are just one of the results of the system crashes. Kind regards, Bill Kochman, Administrator Bill’s Bible Basics / Christian

Re: Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

tents next in the app itself. :) So, what do you think, my friend? Kind regards, Bill Kochman, Administrator Bill’s Bible Basics / Christian Social Network wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.billkochman.com https://www.csnet.live > On Mar 18, 2021, at 9:33 AM, Christopher Stone > wrote: &g

Re: Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

boot. So again I ask, does anyone know where that list of open BBEdit windows is stored? Kind regards, Bill Kochman, Administrator Bill’s Bible Basics / Christian Social Network wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.billkochman.com https://www.csnet.live > On Mar 18, 2021, at 7:36 AM, Gil Dawson

Where Are Prefs for Open Windows in "Windows" Palette Saved?

so windows -- I can just drop a copy of this file into wherever it belongs in BBEdit's support file hierarchy. So my question is, where is this file located, and what is it called? I hope the above was easy enough to understand. Thanks in advance to anyone who may choose to respond. Kind

Re: css help...

to all sites which are AMP-compliant, so that they will know that the site will load fast on their device. Okay. I am done now before Rich or Patrick tell me that I am getting too far off-topic. 浪 Kind regards in Christ, Bill Kochman Bill's Bible Basics https://www.billkochman.com https

Re: css help...

Google’s AMP validation. Kind regards in Christ, Bill Kochman Bill's Bible Basics https://www.billkochman.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXhxqWcWC7SpP-JBNXIYTdg https://www.facebook.com/wordweaver.evangelist > On Dec 26, 2019, at 11:20 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary > wrote: >

Re: Barebones Website

years. Kind regards, Bill Kochman Bill’s Bible Basics wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.billkochman.com > On Dec 17, 2019, at 9:30 AM, Lawrence Salberg wrote: > Does no one actually use BBEdit to build websites anymore? Even simple ones? > Is everything a CMS now (and I'm a C

Re: Nov 15 pre-release

format. It was remaining .psd. So, the user had to manually type in the correct file extension before saving the file. So my point is, this was/is indeed an OS bug which has affected multiple apps, apparently including BBEdit. Kind regards, Bill Kochman Bill’s Bible Basics wordweaver

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 13.0

Rich . . . and Patrick, I just had a quick look at the Pattern Playground and Grep Cheat Sheet. Very nice, my friends. Looks to be useful given how much I rely on grep patterns while batch updating my HTML docs. And, yes, I just upgraded to BBEdit 13. :) Kind regards, Bill Kochman Bill’s

Re: GUI-style display of hexadecimal colours

indeed show the actual color when I select something like #ff. :) Kind regards, Bill Kochman Bill’s Bible Basics wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.billkochman.com > On Sep 20, 2019, at 4:44 AM, Rich Siegel wrote: > > On 9/19/19 at 2:40 PM, macosxserverad...@gmail.com (Christoph

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

— is included in the coreutils package, which I downloaded with Homebrew. Yeah, osxutils does look rather interesting. I might give it a go. Maybe not. Bill Kochman Bill’s Bible Basics wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.billkochman.com > On Mar 30, 2019, at 9:48 PM, @lbutlr wr

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

of them. :) Bill Kochman Bill’s Bible Basics wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.billkochman.com > On Mar 30, 2019, at 9:33 PM, @lbutlr wrote: > > On 30 Mar 2019, at 03:37, Christopher Stone > wrote: >> >> `nl` is a part of coreutils. >> >&

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

Hello Chris, Ha! Yes, I in fact figured that out and installed coreutils just a bit ago. Thanks for your time! :) Bill Kochman Bill’s Bible Basics wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.billkochman.com > On Mar 30, 2019, at 7:37 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 03/30/20

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

that it may be included in some Unix utilities package, but I have no idea what its name might be. Any clues? As I said, your script works fine as is, but it would be nice to have a version of nl installed, so we don’t have to resort to extra steps in your script. Bill Kochman Bill’s Bible Basics

Re: How to put numbers in front of selected lines?

tion to add the actual numbers, but without enabling the “include space after number” option? Or would it just be simpler to use a script — perl, AppleScript, shell script -- such as the aforementioned one? Thanks! Kind regards, Bill Kochman Bill’s Bible Basics wordweaver...@gmail.com https://www.b

Re: How to Create Finder Folders from BBEdit Text List

, Bill > On Jan 12, 2019, at 5:51 AM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 01/11/2019, at 01:18, Bill Kochman <mailto:wordweaver...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Are you saying that I need to paste in a long list of the folder names in >> that variable? If so, do

Re: How to Create Finder Folders from BBEdit Text List

Thank you Christopher. I figured it out. I’m just a little slow when it comes to understanding these things. :) > On Jan 12, 2019, at 5:51 AM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 01/11/2019, at 01:18, Bill Kochman <mailto:wordweaver...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>

Re: How to Create Finder Folders from BBEdit Text List

names? Or do I just run the script from the “Scripts” menu with the actual folder name list file open in BBEdit? Sorry, but it is just not clear to me. Thanks! Kind regards, Bill > On Jan 10, 2019, at 1:59 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 01/09/2019, at 19

Re: How to Create Finder Folders from BBEdit Text List

Thank you for your input, Jeffrey. I will try both your and Sam’s suggestions a bit later today after I finish working on the HTML end of things. > On Jan 10, 2019, at 11:51 AM, 'Jeffrey Jones' via BBEdit Talk > wrote: > > On 2019 Jan 9, at 20:27, Bill Kochman <mailto:wordweav

How to Create Finder Folders from BBEdit Text List

Hello. I know that it is possible to do this. I am just not an Applescript or Python expert. So, if someone can help me, I'd really appreciate it. Basically, I have a BBEdit text file with a list of about 300 folder names alphabetically listed in it, one name per line. I need a script which

Re: Disable auto complete

Thank you VERY much for this tip. A few days ago I upgraded from BBEdit 11.6.8 to BBEdit 12, and the automatic double quotes was driving me nuts. It may serve some people's purposes, but I found it to be very annoying. On Tuesday, 28 November 2017 22:25:19 UTC+10, Roland Küffner wrote: > >

Re: How to Force BBEdit Open Docs in Dock Menu to Always List Alphabetically

I don’t know about BBEdit 12, being as I am still on 11.6.8, I believe. My iMac is nine years old, so I am waiting until I can get a new one, before upgrading to BBEdit. 12. Kind regards in Christ, Bill Kochman Bill's Bible Basics https://www.billkochman.com > On Mar 13, 2018, at 8:45

Re: How to Force BBEdit Open Docs in Dock Menu to Always List Alphabetically

to receive an official response from Rich or Patrick. :) Thanks again. Kind regards, Bill Kochman > On Mar 12, 2018, at 9:38 AM, Allen Hancock <hanc...@yesthatallen.com> wrote: > > This isn't a direct answer to your question, but is how I gain sanity in > these regards: >

How to Force BBEdit Open Docs in Dock Menu to Always List Alphabetically

will force BBEdit to do what I want? BTW, I am using BBEdit 11.6.8 on a nine year old 24" iMac with El Capitan. Thanks, and kind regards, Bill Kochman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email

Re: Help With Grep Pattern

Thank you Steve. That tool is also very helpful. Even though I have read the BBEdit manual’s section regarding grep patterns a number of times over the years, regex and grep patterns has remained a “mystery language” to me, never fully understanding how to put the pieces of the puzzle together

Re: Help With Grep Pattern

Hello Ole Kristian, Thank you so much for the link. That Regex Pal tool is indeed very helpful to me. Kind regards, Bill K. > On Mar 4, 2017, at 7:08 AM, Ole Kristian Ek Hornnes > wrote: > > Hello, > > I am often using http://www.regexpal.com to test out reg-ex

Re: How to Undo Multi-File Find and Replace

Thank you for your response David. However, as I noted yesterday — my local time — I already took care of the problem by starting all over. It took me about an hour to get things right, and even better than before. Kind regards, Bill K. > On Feb 27, 2017, at 5:26 PM, David Wagner

Re: Help With Grep Pattern

Hello Tom, Thank you very much for that explanation. Yes, it is very helpful and will help me to write more complex patterns. Earlier this morning I was looking through the greg section of the BBEdit manual, trying to find what I was referring to as a “not operator”. I even checked online,

Re: How to Undo Multi-File Find and Replace

Hello folks, I apologize for the delay in getting back to you, but I have been very sick and had to go to bed. At any rate, I just bit the bullet and redid everything from scratch using backup copies of the original 1256 files. To provide more details, the link that I broke in each of those

Re: Help With Grep Pattern

. Kind regards, Bill Kochman > On Feb 26, 2017, at 8:41 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary > <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Bill, > There is not need to check for the presence of tabs since what you want > concerns only the URL. > > Since the relativ

How to Undo Multi-File Find and Replace

I kind of suspect what I am going to be told, but let me ask anyway with a glimmer of hope. I have just spent a few hours cleaning up the HTML code in about 1256 docs in one of my virtual host’s directories. I just did a final multi-file find and replace, and then realized when I got a broken

Help With Grep Pattern

Hello again, I want to convert all of my relative URLs to absolute URLs. The problem is that I do not know where the remaining relative URLs are located in my virtual host's folder. I have been reading the grep patterns section of the BBEdit manual, but I still haven't quite understood how to

Re: How to Process a GROUP of Lines Containing . . .

Hello Ollie, Thank you for taking the time to reply. As I told Patrick earlier today, I already resolved the issue by purchasing a copy of Sheila Dixon’s excellent “integrity Plus” app. While that issue is now taken care of, I will definitely keep your message archived here, and your point in

Re: How to Process a GROUP of Lines Containing . . .

Hello Patrick, Thanks for the suggestion. I will try the “Extract” option the next time that I have to perform a task like that. As is, I went ahead and purchased Sheila Dixon’s “Integrity Plus”, which is the commercial version of “Integrity”. Aside from proving to be an excellent website

How to Process a GROUP of Lines Containing . . .

Hello again. I don’t know if this is possible or not, but I thought I would ask. While I obviously realize that Googlebot couldn’t give a hoot regarding how my sitemap.xml file is organized, being a perfectionist, I am. Thus, I want to organize my sitemap according to my personal liking; that

Re: Fix duplicate divs caused by old Adobe GoLive bug?

Hello Greg, I too was a little concerned that Rich and Patrick might think I was getting a little too far off-topic. :) At any rate, it seems that I may have been worrying about nothing. You see, a while back I installed Automatic’s “AMP” plugin, but then I forgot about it. I just researched

Re: Fix duplicate divs caused by old Adobe GoLive bug?

Greg, I am glad you brought up that point regarding WordPresss, because this is something I have been wondering about since last night. As you already know, AMP specifications outright prohibit certain standard HTML tags -- such as the font tag — and inline styling in HTML document bodies.

Re: Fix duplicate divs caused by old Adobe GoLive bug?

On Feb 22, 2017, at 1:58 AM, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote: > The trick is to figure out what the problems are and then apply those fixes > to all your pages using BBEdit's multi-file search/replace. However, finding > the errors is easier than fixing them. Exactly. I have

Re: Fix duplicate divs caused by old Adobe GoLive bug?

> On Feb 22, 2017, at 1:40 AM, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote: > > I've worked on converting some large sites to AMP and it has been good for > the HTML quality on the sites. My sites are generally dynamic, but contain > user submitted articles and comments so it's been a two

Re: Fix duplicate divs caused by old Adobe GoLive bug?

On Feb 22, 2017, at 1:00 AM, Greg Raven wrote: > AMP seems better suited to programmatically-generated web pages, not manually > maintained static pages. The main problem I have with AMP for static pages is > that there is no way to validate AMP code ... each page will

Re: Fix duplicate divs caused by old Adobe GoLive bug?

One way to avoid a lot of the clutter is by converting your website over to the AMP — Accelerate Mobile Pages — standard, which is what I recently did with my primary website. It was a lot of work — and very challenging and frustrating at times due to my own lack of knowledge — but I believe

Re: How to Force BBEdit Spell Checker to Default to U.S. English?

need to go to Keyboard/Text. Again, thank you. Bill Kochman > On Feb 16, 2017, at 12:21 AM, Rod Buchanan <rodb.li...@kdsi.com> wrote: > > > Go to > > System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Text > > and check the "Spelling:" dropdown. Mine

Re: How to Force BBEdit Spell Checker to Default to U.S. English?

eing such a stinker. I am sure that Rich or Patrick has probably already read this, and are aware of my inquiry. Well, I would think so, at least. :) Bill > On Feb 15, 2017, at 8:29 AM, Christopher Stone <listmeis...@suddenlink.net> > wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2017, at 02:19, Bi

How to Force BBEdit Spell Checker to Default to U.S. English?

Greetings again, No doubt this has been asked before, but I probably missed it. I find it annoying that each time that I open the spell checker under the “Edit” menu, I have to first set it to U.S. English, because by default it is set to British English. Mind you, I have absolutely nothing

Re: How to Select Non-Contiguous Text

Ollie, I use basic grep patterns every single day on a large volume of files. However, I must humbly admit that a simple Padawan Learner am I. :) > On Feb 5, 2017, at 10:03 AM, Oliver Boermans wrote: > > Bill, I see what you are looking for is somewhat more complicated! >

Re: How to Select Non-Contiguous Text

And so, Chris, we wait patiently with abated breath until that genius stirs himself, gathers his wits -- maybe has his espresso in his thatched hut -- and attacks that demon head on! :) Bill > :) > > Many programming editors (perhaps most of the good ones now) support > non-contiguous

Re: How to Select Non-Contiguous Text

@gmail.com > <mailto:boerm...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi Bill, > What you are looking for is “Rectangular Selections”. > Search for it in the user manual. > I use them every day > <3 > > Cheers > Ollie > > On 5 February 2017 at 09:08, Bi

Re: How to Select Non-Contiguous Text

Ollie, if you are referring to using the Option key, as I mentioned in my OP, that will not work in this case, because the text to be changed is not vertically lined up within the rectangle that is created when one uses the Option key. It is at different locations within the rectangle, so that

Re: How to Select Non-Contiguous Text

those demons! Bill > On Feb 5, 2017, at 8:13 AM, Christopher Stone <listmeis...@suddenlink.net> > wrote: > > On Feb 04, 2017, at 16:04, Bill Kochman <wordweaver...@gmail.com > <mailto:wordweaver...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Maybe I am just missing something

How to Select Non-Contiguous Text

, and be of great benefit to me. BTW, this is something which I have to do manually — as opposed to doing repeated multi-file operations of find and replace — because the target text data is so varied, and in different positions in each document. Thank you. Kind regarding, Bill Kochman

Help With Clippings, Text Filters and Batch Mode Please

-- or ladies -- can clearly show me how to implement this batch process, I would be most appreciative. I don't mind having to run six different scripts, one for each clipping. It will go fast anyway. Thank you very much in advance. Kind regards, Bill Kochman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public disc

Re: Problem With Return Key in the Global Search Window

Thanks Patrick. I have used \r quite a bit before, but never \n. Isn’t the latter more Unix-oriented? It’s been a long time since I have looked into this kind of stuff. At any rate, so I appear to have three options: option-return, \r and \n. Actually, yes, I do want the hard returns so it

Problem Using Return Key in Global Search Window

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