Re: Grep Find and Replace Issue

text from the search string is Use parentheses in the search string to delimit the portion of the matched string that you want to “capture,” Use “backslash + digit” in the replacement string to identify which captured substring you want to insert in the result. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Ma

Re: New to BBEdit

e was seamless. Of course, in this case, the VMS systems were on the same LAN, not on a cloud server somewhere (although I also used the same workflow remotely from home, just as effectively). Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature reque

Re: Possible with Grep?

it in another editor. Cheers, Neil Faiman > On Feb 28, 2024, at 12:38 PM, Jim Straus wrote: > > Hello all regex experts - > I'm looking to change a word in my code to another one, but it is sometimes > "Word", "word" or "WORD". I can do this with thr

Re: Is this possible to GREP?

f each fragment: Keeping Lightroom Updated Regards, Neil Faiman > On Jan 26, 2024, at 6:06 AM, Victoria Bampton > wrote: > > There's clearly lots of experience here... can anyone tell me if this is > possible to do a find/replace GREP? > > Links like those foll

Re: Extract a group of lines from a text file on Mac

contain return characters instead of backslash-r sequences). Regards, Neil Faiman -- 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. Follow @bbedit on Twitter:

Re: Change First Name SPACE Last Name to First Initial Last Name

that are to be transformed distinguished from all the other word pairs in your files?` That is the key question, and there isn’t even a hint at an answer in your problem statement. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Oct 8, 2023, at 10:32 PM, Bill Walker wrote: > > Example: Change John Do

Re: Fix filenames with blank spaces...

t guessing, and are likely to give you a solution that doesn’t solve your problem. Regards, Neil Faiman -- 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. Follow @bbedi

Re: Extracting lines that don’t contain tabs

Text > Process Lines Containing ... > On Jun 3, 2023, at 7:41 AM, Francisco Hirsch wrote: > > I have files where nearly all the lines have 2 tabs. > A few lines don’t have tabs. Those are the ones I want to extract. > Help will be appreciated -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion

Re: Match newlines that exist only after a line of text (but not between paragraphs)

his is Ms. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter collection. And now onto the show. [intro music] [John] Hi everyone. Welcome back to the Harry Potter podcast. I'm your co-host John Doe. Cheers, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature reques

Re: How to remove timing string?

the “Replace all” is to replace each such two-or-three line string with “nothing,” i.e., to delete it. Cheers, Neil Faiman > On May 30, 2023, at 8:23 AM, Otto Munters wrote: > > Hello, I am a new BBEdit user and want to remove all timings from a srt file > to use it as a text documen

Re: Text Factory Equivalent for BBEdit: Text: Remove Line Breaks?

> On May 24, 2023, at 8:16 AM, Mark Mayberry wrote: > > BBEdit Text (Menu) >> Remove Line Breaks strips away the line breaks from > within the paragraphs and leaves double line breaks at the end of each > paragraph. > > How can I reproduce this specific action using Text Factory? I can’t

Re: Search and replace dilemma

and assigns it to \1, ([a-z]) matches the X and assigns it to \2, and the the string 3X is replaced by 3 X. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Apr 21, 2023, at 1:47 PM, 'Andy Nickless' via BBEdit Talk > wrote: > > Forgive the level 0 question, but I want to find instances in a simple text

Re: Displaying TSV files

{17} Check the Grep option, choose your preferred result options, and click Process. You will get a list (or report, or whatever) of all the lines in your file that don’t contain 17 tabs. Cheers, Neil Faiman > On Mar 17, 2023, at 6:35 PM, Laurel Cooper wrote: > > I work with large, tsv-fo

Split file using regular expression

should Start with one of the occurrences of the regular expression Continue up to but not including the next occurrence of the regular expression Have a name created by doing a grep susbitution on the regular expression. Any suggestions? Thanks, Neil Faiman p.s. I know that I could script this easily

Re: Find files that don't contain text?

On Feb 17, 2023, at 11:18 AM, Rich Siegel wrote: > > On 17 Feb 2023, at 11:16, Neil Faiman wrote: > >> One of those things that must be easy, but I haven’t been able to figure out >> how: >> >> Given a set of files (specified in a Multi-File search di

Find files that don't contain text?

ution (maybe using the find utility?). Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Neil Faiman -- 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. Follow @bbedit on

Re: Shell Integration Point to BBEdit File Line

but works at cross purposes: the indicated line in the document will be selected, irrespective of whether it's in the piped data or not.) Character offset specifications are allowed here as well: ls -la | bbedit +5:60 Regards, Neil Faiman -- Thi

Re: BBEdit 13.5.7 - VERBOSE feedback on Find

t ~/Desktop/BBEditPreferences.plist says, “Copy the preferences from the file BBEditPreferences.plist on you desktop into the com.barebones.bbedit preferences on this system, wherever and however they may be stored.” Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you h

Re: Copy markdown as HTML

On Nov 8, 2022, at 6:57 AM, Rich Siegel wrote: > > When used with a Markdown document, the "Export as HTML" command on the File > menu will export the same HTML that is used for previewing. Is that functionality accessible through AppleScript? -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion

Re: Self-closing tag syntax - who is right? (should I care?)

, even minor syntax errors will prevent a document labeled as > XML from being rendered fully, whereas they would be ignored in the HTML > syntax. > See also my previous reply to Omar KN, quoting from the same standard to the effect that the terminal slash in void element tags

Re: Self-closing tag syntax - who is right? (should I care?)

of WHATWG, the slash is optional in a tag. Regards, Neil Faiman -- 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. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <https://twitte

Re: File management Create .html suffixed “empty” file by automated process for each record in given single field list

nvoked from the BBEdit Script Menu if you wanted, I’ve appended below an AppleScript which does a vaguely related task, just to illustrate a few of the techniques in play. Obviously, your particular task would need to include “open the list of records and read lines from it.” Regards,

Re: Project collection object in BBEdit applescript

in an AppleScript, what I actually get is a file reference, not a project collection. Neil Faiman > On Jun 3, 2022, at 3:11 PM, jj wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > This AppleScript snippet might help you understand how BBEdit sees the > project document hierarchy. > > set v4Spa

Re: Project collection object in BBEdit applescript

in an AppleScript, what I actually get is a file reference, not a project collection. Neil Faiman > On Jun 3, 2022, at 3:11 PM, jj wrote: > > Hi Neil, > > This AppleScript snippet might help you understand how BBEdit sees the > project document hierarchy. > > set v4Spa

Project collection object in BBEdit applescript

represented by the collection ( «class file» "Macintosh HD:Users:neil:Library:Mobile Documents:com~apple~CloudDocs:zba:Web Site:wiltonzba.org:" ). Can anyone explain this behavior, or, even better, how to get at the project collection (and its contents0 as I intended? Thanks, Neil Faiman

Re: Converting decimal value of some numbers using Grep

dy modifier can be essential when a repeated wild-card pattern would otherwise match right over what is supposed to be the terminator. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email

Re: Tilde-suffixed backup files

On Oct 21, 2021, at 2:26 PM, Rich Siegel wrote: > > That behavior results from having "Make backup before saving" turned on, and > "Keep historical backups" turned off, although that can be overridden via > Emacs mode variables or EditorConfig. Bingo! Thank you. Neil -- This is the BBEdit

Tilde-suffixed backup files

system. Anyway, I am now getting tilde-suffixed backup files when I save a file in BBEdit. I don’t think that I ever saw this behavior before in many, many years of BBEdit use. Some preference setting I’ve missed? Thanks, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have

Re: How to replace contents between two specific words

option means, “Dot matches anything at all, including line breaks,” as opposed to the default, which is that dot only matches regular characters. Thus,(?s:subpattern) means that the subpattern can match across multiple lines. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Sep 19, 2021, at 10:39 PM,

Re: How to replace contents between two specific words

is certainly overkill for this problem. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Sep 19, 2021, at 9:31 PM, Tim A wrote: > > Neil's solution encouraged me to learn about "Pattern Modifiers", e.g. (?imsx) > And I am able to parse the look around aspects of his solution... but isn't >

Re: How to replace contents between two specific words

the matched string. Regards, Neil Faiman On Sep 18, 2021, at 4:56 AM, Nowaki A wrote: > > I have a thousands of word file with the contents I want to delete. > All the contents I want to delete are between exactly the same two specified > words. > How do I rep

Re: Adding a query line to all files in a folder

n probably automate it with AppleScript, but probably not worth the time. But if you do want to do it, I'd suggest just using something like "MMDDHHMMSS" for the version string — guaranteed unique, no cleverness required. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit T

Re: Stumped on this one

/.*/ in line with the date from file 2 write line Trying to be cleverer than that would probably be like trying to trim a hedge with a lawn mower. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Jun 15, 2021, at 7:28 PM, @lbutlr wrote: > > I have a file that has a few hundred lines, 77

Re: Sync from filesystem to project folder

, BBEdit would beachball for about 20 seconds before displaying the raw internal code of the PDF in the editor window. I breathed a sigh of relief when they went away. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Jun 4, 2021, at 1:48 PM, Jagrut Sharma wrote: > > Hi - I noticed that a file pu

Re: Extract number within parentheses using GREP

nd of the line or it is followed by the opening parenthesis of a parenthesized number. So if it is followed by an opening parenthesis, then that is part of the “everything else”, too. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a fe

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

. Rather than wasting time trying to cobble together a workaround, I would suggest going straight to BBEdit tech support. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Mar 17, 2021, at 7:41 PM, Bill Kochman wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > I kind of figured I might get your attention. :) >

Writing persistent include scripts in Swift

com/NeilFaiman/PersistentIncludeParameters>. Even if you aren't interested in the module itself, the README for the repository includes everything I've learned about the process and pitfalls of using Swift scripts with BBEdit. Enjoy, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion

Re: Regex question

foo+mung" followed by #. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Feb 12, 2021, at 7:07 AM, @lbutlr wrote: > > I seem to be having a Brain Cloud¹ moment, but I am trying to match a pattern > like this: > > foo+(anything)# or foo# and NOT match > > foobar# > foobar

Re: Colored mark in the line number column possible ?

re else in the document, and then return to where you were, try using the Set Jump Point / Previous Jump Point / Next Jump Point commands from the Go menu (and of course, if you end up using these much, you can always assign key commands to them). Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk

Re: Need to remove blank lines

> On Jan 13, 2021, at 8:22 PM, Bruce Van Allen > wrote: > > I think people might be getting differing behavior because trying with > different versions of BBEdit. > > I’m running the latest beta (version 13.5.5 build 415089), and my “Process > Lines Containing…”

Re: Need to remove blank lines

lete matched lines — saves the copying & pasting step. > > But BBEdit isn’t finding the blank lines. ^$ does work in the normal Find > dialog. > > Cheers > > >> On 2021-01-14, at 12:04, Neil Faiman wrote: >> >> Edit > Process Lines Cont

Re: Need to remove blank lines

containing any character), so Cmd-A, Cmd-V (Select All, Paste) will replace the document contents with the non-blank lines. Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com"

Re: Need help adding function pattern to a custom language module

character in a pattern, I usually stop and ask myself, "Would a \s make more sense (or just as much sense) here? Regards, Neil Faiman > On Jan 1, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Joe Strout <mailto:j...@luminaryapps.com>> wrote: > > I had the (?x: quantifier around the whole expr

Passing parameters down through nested persistent includes

-included text file contains a persistent includes of a script, there doesn't seem to be any way to make the behavior of the script depend on the parameters to the include of the text file. Am I missing something? Thanks, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group

Re: grep pattern to find special combinations of fields in a large csv file

AppleScript is wonderful as a glue language. As a data processing language, not so much. BBEdit is happy running any sort of scripts, not just AppleScript.This looks like it should be trivial in Perl. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Jul 29, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Lewis Downey wrote: > &

Re: compare two frontmost documents

Compare Two Front Windows is in the Search > Find Differences submenu. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 5:38:27 PM UTC-7 Luc P. Beaudoin wrote: > Hi, In BBEDit 13, I can't find "Compare Two Front Windows". I used to use > "Compare

Setting shell working directory for persistent include

Templates and Includes directory, along with the script itself. Then I could just put "-F ." on the shebang line. But that only works if "." is the Templates and Includes directory ... Thanks, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you ha

Re: How Can I Search for All Lines NOT Matching a Complex Regex String

to clipboard: false, copying to new document: false, deleting matched lines: true, reporting results: false }. Now your new document should contain just the lines of the original document that don't match your grep pattern, prefixed with their original line numbers Regards, Neil Faiman

Re: Maintaining a variable(?) to prefix future text

t search-and-replace will delete all the bullet that you inserted in step one. Regards, Neil Faiman > On Apr 30, 2020, at 3:10 PM, Peter Kaufman wrote: > > Folks, > > I love BBEdit (v13.0.6) and hope this can do the trick! I would rather not > have to resort to sed/awk/

Re: Navigating between panes in a results browser

Thank you!! > On Mar 30, 2020, at 10:13 PM, Christopher Waterman > wrote: > > Tab out of the the results, ctrl Tab back in. > >> On Mar 30, 2020, at 4:08 PM, Neil Faiman wrote: >> >> Are there keyboard shortcuts to move the focus between the results list p

Navigating between panes in a results browser

back to the results pane to find the next file of interest. I think there must be a way to do the pane focus switch with the keyboard, but I can't figure out what it is. Having to switch to the mouse to do the focus switches really bogs down my work flow. Thanks, Neil Faiman

Re: Values for the download attribute

On Mar 14, 2020, at 8:45 PM, Christopher Finazzo wrote: > > When checking the syntax of my document, I am getting validator warnings that > the syntax of my download links is incorrect. BBEdit tells me that the > download attribute requires a value inside the anchor, but the W3C's Nu >

Re: Capture group question

get the last match; but if the last match is captured, you can always get the first ,match as well with a little recoding of the regular expression. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please

Persistent include arguments and Perl, oh my

I've been staring at this for hours. I must be doing something really stupid, because this behavior seems impossible. I have an HTML file, "site_menu.html", that persistent-includes a text file, "Navigation Bar-html5", that persistent-includes a Perl script, "Generate Navigation Bar-html5".

Re: Multiple SFTP/Remote connections

File > New > FTP/SFTP Browser. For more details, consult the fine documentation. > On Nov 18, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Munroe wrote: > > How does one do that? > > On Monday, November 11, 2019 at 2:09:39 PM UTC-5, Neil Faiman wrote: > Just create a new FTP brows

Re: Multiple SFTP/Remote connections

Just create a new FTP browser and make a connection with it. > On Nov 11, 2019, at 2:02 PM, Munroe wrote: > > Is there a way to have connections open to multiple servers at the same time > using the "FTP Browser"? > > -- > This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a >

Deploy web site to Amazon S3 bucket?

Can the BBEdit automatic web site deployment features be used with a web site that lives in an Amazon S3 bucket? Thanks, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email "supp...@barebone

Re: Preserving Timestamps with SFTP deplyment.

search (Cmd-Shift-F) on the project doesn't work when the files are on a remote server. You can work around this with a command-line grep if you have terminal access to the remote server, but it is a noticeable limitation. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion

Re: problem with grep replacing selected text

). > Since it’s documented to work, and it works for others but not for you, it sounds like it’s time to apply “If you ... need technical support, please email "supp...@barebones.com <mailto:supp...@barebones.com>”’ Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public

Re: What about BBEdit attracts you to the program over others?

On Nov 29, 2018, at 9:09 AM, Daniel Palmer wrote: > > I am going to figure out where to put in a feature request. I wanna have an > entry in the menu that will allow you compare the two most recently opened > files (vs comparing two windows or manually selecting the two files). I > spend

Re: #bbinclude in included script

> > In looking at your code, I'm a bit confused. > > First, why not just specify the included includes as comments? You mean, as persistent includes? Well, persistent includes are more verbose, and not needed unless you’re planning to update the. In this case, when I update, the outermost

Re: #bbinclude in included script

On Mar 23, 2018, at 12:13 AM, Neil Faiman <neil.goo...@faiman.org> wrote: > > For years, I’ve been using persistent includes () that > contain plain includes (#bbinclude …). This always works just as I want: The > persistent include body is inserted in the document, and th

#bbinclude in included script

, AND THE NESTED #BBINCLUDE’s AREN’T SUBSTITUTED. Does anybody else have any experience with this phenomenon. I hope I’m just doing something wrong; it would be disappointing if this doesn’t work. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature

Re: Auto-select search selected when text is selected

had a current selection that was more than one line long. My experience was that this was what I wanted probably 99% of the time. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp

Re: Is there a keyboard shortcut to toggle Soft Wrapping?

aniobra/manovra using > this: BBEdit > Preferences, Menus & Shortcuts, choose View in the left pane, Text Display > Soft Wrap Text in the right pane, and set the keyboard shortcut of your choice. ( Or Status Bar in the left pane, Text Options > Soft Wrap Text in the right

Manipulating buffer in window with AppleScript?

that the current line (the line containing the selection) is located at some specific position relative to the BBEdit window. Is there a way to get there? Thanks, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem

Re: How to "Process lines NOT containing..."

s containing “foo”, check “Delete matched lines,” and Bob’s your uncle. Varying combinations of “Copy selected lines to clipboard” and “Delete matched lines”, “Copy to clipboard,” and “Copy to new document” can accomplish pretty much anything you want, with only a few extra keystrok

Re: Modify all instances of selection a la columnar selection

se symbols with the same name in different places in a file, you get an unwelcome surprise. Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than po

Re: Eliminate duplicate quotations

(4) Sort the file again, this time sorting on the line numbers; (5) Remove the line numbers. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than po

Re: Make global changes...

nly processing it can do is to delete matching or non-matching lines and/or copy them to the clipboard or to a new document. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "sup

Re: BBEdit manual layout

> On Dec 19, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary > wrote: > > I was wondering why the left margin text on the odd pages of the PDF manual > is much wider than it is on the even pages. When it is printed two-sided, page 2 will be on the back of page 1,

Re: Small bug (or feature?) in Find / Replace

that it would try to match a single literal backslash, followed by the the string circ at the beginning of a line, which probably is not what you have in mind. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or would like to report

Did something happen to Update Folder?

are gone! What happened? How do I check just the 30 files in a folder and ignore the 300 files subfolders? Oh, no! I just looked, and the Check Folder Syntax dialog box has suffered the same transformation. Regards, Neil Faiman -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you

Re: How do I write a Unix filter/script which knows the path to my current document?

file for the current document when the script is run. You should read the section Unix Scripting: Perl, Python,Ruby, Shells, and more! starting at page 314 in Chapter 14, ,_BBEdit and the Unix Command Line_, of the BBEdit User Manual. Regards, Neil Faiman -- -- You received

Re: Need Code

, it will put up a dialog box that will let you choose the folder. Have fun, Neil Faiman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

Re: reoccurring navigation menus

) that will *generate* the included HTML. Regards, Neil Faiman -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr

update file specification behavior changed in 10.0

update file specification : file/folder to update Any suggestions? Thanks, Neil Faiman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from

Re: Can't see Greek pasted into BBEdit

. At a guess, your BBEdit font may not have glyphs for the characters you are pasting. I am using Consolas for BBEdit, and when I paste your Cyrillic into a BBEdit document, it appears perfectly. Regards, Neil Faiman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the BBEdit Talk