Thank you very much for all your help! It now works indeed and it is pretty
quick in comparison with my actual solution with another text robot.
set myfile to alias "full HFS file of the file to be searched in"
tell application "BBEdit"
set docRef to open myfile
set foundRec to (find
On 06/29/2021, at 00:37, Murat mailto:myi...@gmail.com>>
wrote:
> set result to (find "" searching in ¬
> (alias "full HFS path to my file") ¬
> options {starting at top:true} with selecting match)
>
> if (found of result) then .
>
> Script debugger tells me,
Hello again Jean,
When I do this:
set result to (find "" searching in ¬
(alias "full HFS path to my file") ¬
options {starting at top:true} with selecting match)
if (found of result) then .
Script debugger tells me, for the last line
Variable result is
Murat,
To have a result with the found object you have to remove the "returning
results" options or set it to false in the find command.
*tell* *application* "BBEdit"
*set* result *to* *find* "" searching in *text* *of* *first* *window*
options {starting at top:*true*}
*end* *tell*
Result:
Yes! These options helps to find the text now but the replace part poses a
problem now (I do not use the grep here because it is a simple substitution:
-- THis script is directly adapted from the BBEdit manual, page 335
tell application "BBEdit"
set result to (find "" searching in ¬
Thank you very much Jean,
I will explore these options to check if they solve my problem. Indeed, I
have assumed that if I open the document, the cursor would be at the
beginning of the file, which is not necessarily true.
I have seen these options in the dictionary but was not sure how to use
Hi Murat,
Might it be that the insertion point in your file is past the tag
and the find wrap around option is not set?
Try setting the "wrap around" option to true in the find command:
*find* "" searching in *text* 1 *of* *text window* 1 options {search
mode:*grep*, starting at top:*true*,
Hello,
I am new to BBEdit. I have searched this forum but have not been able to
locate a discussion relevant for my problem. I am maybe doing something
stupid but, I cannot make BBEdit find an HTML using it through Applescript,
in a document that definitely includes this tag.
My simple script
