How to backspace over only one space?

2017-06-14 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
If I have a line with several spaces, and I hit backspace at the end of the line, it erases the entire line instead of only the last space. How do I adjust BBEdit to only delete one space? I looked through the prefs but couldn't find any relevant setting. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public

Re: How to Force BBEdit to Display CP437 High ASCII

2015-04-09 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 10:15 p +1000 04/09/2015, WordWeaver777 didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Hello John, Thanks for the tip. However, I did not meet with success. As per your instructions, I tried Windows (Latin 1), as well as the other aforementioned encodings, and I changed the font several

Re: How to double-click on word and INCLUDE the period?

2014-09-17 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 11:37 a -0700 09/16/2014, Nick Matzke didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: When I'm programming, I always use underscores in my function and variable names, because I can double-click on them and get the whole thing. E.g.: get_human_DNA sampled_DNA However, most other programmers

Re: Saving local and remote at same time

2012-01-17 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 08:17 a -0800 01/17/2012, dmayo2 didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Hello. I've recently move to mac from windows and I'm trying to find the best editor, and I really like what I see in bbedit, with one seemingly glaring omission: This is what I could do over on my other system, and

Re: how to mark html document headings

2012-01-14 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 11:26 p +0100 01/09/2012, Roland Küffner didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Am 09.01.2012 um 9, 22:55 schrieb Walter Ian Kaye: At 12:01 p +0100 01/09/2012, Roland Küffner didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: To get nicely named entries in the menu try this: Search: h

Re: How do I convert an html4 table to html5? Is there a tool for that?

2012-01-07 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 03:03 p -0800 01/07/2012, ijak didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: . I have a html4 table that creates a picture frame around a certain sized image. That way I can place any image inside the frame on my web page, without having to create image including a frame for every image I post

Re: possible to set upper case tags as the default?

2011-10-20 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 08:08 p -0700 10/03/2011, Fletcher Sandbeck didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:43 PM, blinde wrote: based on the discussions thus far: SHOULD i use all lowercase tags? does it really matter? if so, WHY does it matter? If you use compression on your web

Re: My Disappoints in BBEdit 10

2011-09-12 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 06:41 a -0400 09/12/2011, Morbus Iff didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Basically (I insist on this) It really seems that none of the bbedit programmers are advanced *HTML* programmers. This is the second or third time someone has stressed that advanced HTML programmers need

Re: Seeking for last version with PowerPC support and Tiger support

2011-09-12 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 09:49 a -0700 09/12/2011, Douglas Mencken didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: I suppose I can post the reply from sales support to this public list. The answer was *no*: quote begins [...] BBEdit 10.0 (the latest version) requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later, and we regret that

Re: Seeking for last version with PowerPC support and Tiger support

2011-09-12 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 10:30 a -0700 09/12/2011, Douglas Mencken didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: I am, of course, interested. But I'm sure that would result in 30-day demo and goodbye. To Ron: Ditto what Doug said. It's arbitrary and nonsensical policies like BareBones' which drive me to seek

Re: [BBEdit] Seeking for last version with PowerPC support and Tiger support

2011-09-11 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 04:46 a -0700 09/10/2011, Douglas Mencken didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Can you please point me to location where I can download a version of BBEdit which would run on my hardware (Power Mac, OS X Tiger). BBEdit Release Notes Archive

Re: How to make a feature request for moveable (variable) tab stops?

2011-08-20 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 07:04 p -0600 08/19/2011, Doug McNutt didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: The problem is that I use other software and hardware - think numerically controlled lathe and circuit board creation. They expect the tab characters with one tab per column and they get very upset with

Re: How to make a feature request for moveable (variable) tab stops?

2011-08-20 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 02:49 a -0700 08/20/2011, Walter Ian Kaye didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: -boo who used to design printed circuit boards using tape from that company in Chatsworth CA, whatever it was called. Holy smokes Doug, I remembered -- Bishop Graphics it was! Ah, now I can sleep, lol

Re: Bare Bones Web Pages

2011-08-18 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 01:31 a -0500 08/18/2011, Christopher Stone didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: # BBEdit Home Page open location http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html; Minor nit: there's never any need to include index.html in a URL. It's purely a server internal detail which no

Windowless AppleScript? (was Re: What's the BBEdit Sales Pitch?)

2011-08-11 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 07:01 p -0700 08/10/2011, oliver didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: AppleScript (which seems to be primarily useful for customizing your interaction with the app) I just had a crazy thought. Hey BareBones, what do you think of a notion of being able to harness BBEdit to manipulate

Re: I Want My Modal Edit Boxes Back!

2011-08-08 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 11:18 p -0600 08/03/2011, LuKreme didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Mark markjal...@gmail.com squaked out on Wed 03-Aug-2011 08:54 start at top with cmd-T Shift-Ctrl-W toggles ³Wrap around² as ³Start at top² is meaningless in a non-modal dialog. Eh? That's in reference

Re: What's the BBEdit Sales Pitch?

2011-07-28 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 08:49 p -0700 07/27/2011, Brett Kelly didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: I'm developer/writer who has, historically, been a vim (MacVim, specifically) user who is investigating other editors that have a bit better integration with OS X. The majority of my work is editing HTML/ XML,

Re: 10.0 makes things more difficult for me.

2011-07-26 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 03:26 p -0600 07/24/2011, LuKreme didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: On Jul 24, 2011, at 15:15, echo goo...@echozone.com wrote: (c) no size tags once a file is selected; width + height attributes are not required on image tags. Perhaps omitted to work with some responsive

Re: BBEdit 10 cost

2011-07-19 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 10:48 a -0700 07/19/2011, SSteve didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: On Jul 19, 10:11 am, Keith keith.ledbet...@gmail.com wrote: So let me get this straight. The Mac App Store is changing the game. There will no longer be a distinction between initial purchase price and upgrade

Re: DTD Question

2011-07-11 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 04:45 p -0600 07/11/2011, LuKreme didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: When was HTML 4.01 transitional relevant? 1999? What are you transitioning from (HTML 3.2) and what are you transitioning to? (HTML 4.01 Strict or HTML5). But HotMetal was a steaming pile of monkey feces.

Re: Why does this group expose our private email addresses?

2011-06-27 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 08:33 p -0600 06/26/2011, Doug McNutt didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Best to have an address for lists only How did you get Google Groups to accept a non-Gmail address? When the BBEdit listserv switched to Google, I couldn't get it to accept my normal return address and had

Re: AppleScript Open File in BBEdit 9.6

2011-06-24 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
Oh, that must be a new feature; doesn't work in my old SE 1.9. At 08:48 a -0400 06/23/2011, BeeRich didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: You can also drag the file into the AE window and the path to the file comes up.  On 2011-06-23, at 7:51 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: BTW, an easy

Re: AppleScript Open File in BBEdit 9.6

2011-06-23 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
BTW, an easy way to get an alias filepath is just run this in Script Editor: choose file Then navigate to and open the file, and copy the result. :-) -boo At 11:08 p -0400 06/22/2011, BeeRich didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Sorry Patrick. I got this to work. How can I then

Re: umlauts in urls

2011-03-21 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 08:04 p +0100 03/21/2011, Gregory Wiest didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Hello, Is there a way to get BBEdit's syntax checker to accept urls with umlauts in them? There are addresses, like this one, http://www.fräuleinhildebrand.de which use umlauts. Spelling that address

Capture aliases of all open files?

2011-02-13 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
I'm trying to write a routine to get the aliases of all open files, and I need it to work in any scriptable file-editing app -- BBEdit, TextWrangler, Tex-Edit Plus, GraphicConverter, Adobe Illustrator, whatever. I've got this working in TextWrangler (presumably BBEdit too) and Tex-Edit Plus.

Re: Mac OS X Command-Line List? What about Perl?

2011-02-07 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 08:49 a -0800 02/07/2011, Keith didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Mac OS X 10.4 above has BASH and you can see all the commands in the terminal by tapping TAB key twice. For help with a command type man commandname For Perl there are numerous books or you can go to a perl web

Generate a DTD from XML?

2011-01-27 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
I just tried two big ol' Java XML editors. Editix's command to generate a DTD isn't implemented in the free version, and oXygen's command gives file not found error (duh, it doesn't exist yet). Dum de dum dum. So, I'm sure there are plenty of XML geeks here. Is there any tool to generate a

Re: Generate a DTD from XML?

2011-01-27 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 01:07 a -0800 01/27/2011, Walter Ian Kaye didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: I just tried two big ol' Java XML editors. Editix's command to generate a DTD isn't implemented in the free version, and oXygen's command gives file not found error (duh, it doesn't exist yet). Dum de dum

Re: Mac App Store for BBEdit?

2011-01-12 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 12:09 p -0500 01/12/2011, Steve Kalkwarf didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Not that I understand wanting to run any OS that isn't currentŠ Oh he opened the Pandora's box. :-) Up through Tiger, Apple was restoring functionality that was present back in System 7. After Tiger,

Re: Mac App Store for BBEdit?

2011-01-10 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 10:31 a -0500 01/10/2011, Patrick Woolsey didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Herbert Schulz he...@wideopenwest.com sez: [...] A: In BBEdit and TextWrangler, authenticated saves (the ability to save changes to files that you do not own) and the command-line tools are not available

Re: UltraEdit

2011-01-04 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 09:39 a + 01/04/2011, John Delacour didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: At 10:12 +0100 04/01/2011, Maarten Sneep wrote: [...] or a misunderstanding on the programmers' side of how a true Mac application should behave. a misunderstanding that is shared by the writers of

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 9.6.1 (2845) pre-release

2010-11-01 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 05:01 p -0400 10/29/2010, Rich Siegel didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: * [193877] Fixed a bug which would cause a crash while editing in some situations (which themselves are not clearly understood, nor reproducible). You fixed a non-reproducible bug? Wow. Next thing

Re: Using BBEdit as an external editor for Mail

2010-05-01 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 07:37 p -0400 04/30/2010, Matt Martini didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: And as we see from John's post it is unlikely that we can do this via Applescript (or did I read that wrong?) Well there's always ye olde clipboard -- You received this message because you are

Re: BBEdit still uses an unsupported product?

2009-11-02 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 12:00 a -0500 11/03/2009, Jeffrey Jones didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: On Nov 2, 2009, at 6:43 PM, tonza wrote: How long this type/creator mechanism remains with us Macintosh users remains to be seen It does not remain to be seen. I guess you haven't noticed, but  creator

Re: Mixed unicode and ASCII

2009-03-22 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 2:25 PM -0600 3/21/09, Doug McNutt didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Here's what the first few lines looks like when opened with BBEdit %FDF-1.2 %¹³S 1 0 obj /FDF /Fields [ /V (¦ l i n e 1 4) /T (¦ f 1 _ 0 5 8 \( 0 \)) /V (¦ l i n e 1 5) /T (¦ f 1 _ 0 6 0 \( 0 \)) /V

Re: 2009 and eMail wordwrap, or lack thereof...

2009-02-22 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 12:55 PM -0700 2/22/09, Doug McNutt didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: Long ago I learned about speed reading. It's a technique for getting printed information into the brain without any side to side motion of the eyeballs which slows things down. That kind of scanning works for

Re: Deprecated i still available via Markup Font Style

2009-01-25 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 9:17 PM -0700 1/22/09, le...@gmail didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: There are some elements that have been deprecated for particular uses.  The most obvious example is the table tags which have been  deprecated for POSITIONING, but are perfectly OK and reasonable and should be used

Re: BBedit vs. textmate

2008-11-14 Thread Walter Ian Kaye
At 09:50 p -0500 11/11/2008, Aaron W. Hsu didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:10:25 -0800 Lee Hinde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a project now that requires me to go on-site one day a week. When I get back, I duplicate my current web folder and then copy