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

Thanks, Neil and Fletcher. This worked perfectly. I certainly need to dive into BBEdit’s wonderful preferences in more detail. I appreciate your guidance. Alfredo > On Aug 11, 2017, at 10:05 AM, Neil Faiman wrote: > > BBEdit > Preferences, Menus & Shortcuts, choose

Re: How to backspace over only one space?

Rich, You wrote generically: “There is AN expert preference”. Can you please provide the SPECIFIC name and location of this preference, or the specific “defaults write” command? My reason for asking: Searching the Expert Preferences help for “backspace from the insertion point” doesn’t lead

Re: [INFO] BBEdit 12.0 Pricing Answers

Great! My gold-lined pockets are burning ;-) > On Sep 15, 2017, at 12:50 PM, Patrick Woolsey <pwool...@barebones.com> wrote: > > On 9/15/17 at 2:36 PM, f.alfredor...@gmail.com (F. Alfredo Rego) wrote: > >> How about those proactive folks who already have v.11 and who wan

Re: [INFO] BBEdit 12.0 Pricing Answers

How about those proactive folks who already have v.11 and who want to upgrade to v.12 ASAP (or sooner)? > On Sep 15, 2017, at 12:13 PM, Rich Siegel wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > For those readers of the BBEdit-talk list who aren’t sure about our upgrade > and pricing

Re: Upgrading and Apple Scrip,ts

Congratulations. Good for you. We need to keep the BBEdit team alive, for the sake of our own lives ;-) > On Sep 20, 2017, at 5:52 PM, Chuck Dingee wrote: > > I downloaded demo, worked like a charm. Now upgraded. :-) > Thanks! -- This is the BBEdit Talk public

Re: Losing Preferences

Hi Patrick, It will be useful to backup BBEdit’s preferences with git, so we can detect any unwelcome changes and revert them whenever Apple decides to “help” (In Spanish, we say “no me ayudes, compadre” ;-) What file(s) should we backup thus? Thanks. Alfredo > On Oct 3, 2017, at 10:41

Re: Losing Preferences

Thanks, Patrick. One more arrow in our BBEdit quivers as we defend ourselves against Apple’s mischiefs ;-) Alfredo > On Oct 10, 2017, at 9:47 AM, Patrick Woolsey <pwool...@barebones.com> wrote: > > On 10/9/17 at 11:16 AM, f.alfredor...@gmail.com (F. Alfr

Re: Losing Preferences

gt; wrote: >> >> >> I'm just throwing this out ... I have no idea what impact it would have on >> BBEdit. >> >> You could try changing the permissions on the pref file to read-only. You >> can do it with Finder or use "chmod 40

Re: Losing Preferences

-enter all of my favorite BBEdit prefs. Sigh . . . Alfredo > On Oct 10, 2017, at 9:47 AM, Patrick Woolsey <pwool...@barebones.com> wrote: > > On 10/9/17 at 11:16 AM, f.alfredor...@gmail.com (F. Alfredo Rego) wrote: > >> It will be useful to backup BBEdit’s preferences with

Re: Swap compare panels?

Perhaps Patrick and Rich might be inclined to consider placing a “swap panes” button somewhere in the differences window itself (if this is even feasible, and if this won’t break anything). > On Aug 19, 2017, at 1:22 PM, Steve J wrote: > > Wonderful, > Even though it's

Re: Auto-select search selected when text is selected

Wrong presumption, Bucky ;-) I have ALWAYS felt the slight twinge of frustration that vrice mentioned, and I have always settled for using the shortcut (Ctrl-Shift-S) that Fletcher mentioned. However, it was only today, after reading their comments, that I realized that I would rather not

Re: Auto-select search selected when text is selected

Slight editing: . . . adding an expert preference to allow users who crave consistency to change it themselves would be AN EXCELLENT IDEA. Alfredo > On Sep 3, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Dave wrote: > > It has always puzzled me that "Text" actions like "Apply Text Filter,"

Re: BBEdit for Writers

Very well done, Franz. Thanks. Alfredo > On Oct 11, 2017, at 11:10 AM, Stories & Novels > wrote: > > I put together a short guide that might be of interest to someone new to > BBEdit and wondering if it would work well for writing prose. > > BBEdit for Writers: A

Re: Numeric Key pad not working in BBEdit

Hi Bas, I have an Apple keyboard with numeric keypad and it works perfectly fine with BBEdit. I’m on High Sierra 10.13.2 (17C89). What brand of keyboard do you have? Alfredo > On Dec 15, 2017, at 12:49 AM, SpeedyB wrote: > > Hi All, > > I found something very

Re: Multiple Cursors

The first hit on google: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2018/04/29/multiple-cursors-in-xcode/ Enjoy. Alfredo > On Apr 30, 2018, at 1:51 AM, Jan Erik Moström wrote: > > On 30 Apr 2018, at 5:49, Jon B. wrote: > >> Xcode now has a hidden preference for multiple cursors. Hoping

Re: fix for BBEdit crash/problems in High Sierra

Nice. For the curious: man atsutil Alfredo > On Feb 22, 2018, at 1:03 PM, Donna McMaster wrote: > > Last week installed BBEdit on a new Mac running 10.13.3. A few days later it > crashed, and afterwards the text on the screen was invisible. I spent almost > an hour

Re: [LISTMOM] Re: MacBook pro 15-inch 2016 won't update from 10.13.5 to 10.13.6 (an update that Rich highlights in red)

il.com (F. Alfredo Rego) wrote: > >> I have tried many times (via Software update and via the downloaded >> macOSUpd10.13.6.dmg) but, after having gone through the normal >> “update” motions, my MBP claims to still be on 10.13.5. > > I am pretty sure this is not

Re: Any way to search previous searches?

Barbara: Nice! This is very helpful and a step in the right direction. I look forward to discovering more steps in the journey to learning about more and more BBEdit features. Thank you for the tip. Alfredo > On Aug 20, 2018, at 9:53 AM, Barbara Snyder wrote: > > Alfredo -- > > I

Re: Any way to search previous searches?

Hey Chris, Cool. I’ll dive into it during the weekend. Thanks! Alfredo > On Aug 24, 2018, at 12:54 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 08/20/2018, at 15:15, F. Alfredo Rego <mailto:f.alfredor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Rich will probably give me some grief but

Re: Any way to search previous searches?

Hey Chris, Very nice! Congratulations and many thanks. Alfredo > On Aug 26, 2018, at 10:28 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 08/24/2018, at 13:54, Christopher Stone <mailto:listmeis...@suddenlink.net>> wrote: >> On 08/20/2018, at 15:15, F. Alfredo Rego > &

Re: Is there any way to ask BBEdit to use double-click to select "words" with embedded periods?

Thanks, Chris, for the tip. I’ll study John Gruber’s notes and I’ll implement variatio(n) on his theme(s). Alfredo > On Sep 8, 2018, at 10:56 AM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 09/08/2018, at 08:13, F. Alfredo Rego <mailto:f.alfredor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>

Re: Is there any way to ask BBEdit to use double-click to select "words" with embedded periods?

Hey Chris, Wonderful on all counts. ¡Mil gracias! Alfredo > On Sep 9, 2018, at 12:57 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 09/08/2018, at 12:34, F. Alfredo Rego <mailto:f.alfredor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> I’ll study John Gruber’s notes and I’ll implement var

Is there any way to ask BBEdit to use double-click to select "words" with embedded periods?

Hello everyone, I’m particularly interested in using a simple double-click to SELECT IP addresses, such as one of the two in this line: IP Range: 87.76.32.0 - 87.76.63.255 (8,192) Kazakstan Apple Mail allows the selection of IP addresses with a double click, which is very convenient.

Re: Navigating folders and files in a project sidebar from the keyboard?

Thanks, Patrick for the useful cribbing. Any tricks for getting the focus on the [project’s] file list WITHOUT having to click on it (i.e., without taking our hands off the keyboard)? We want to save EVERY calorie that we can. Alfredo > On Mar 6, 2018, at 12:50 PM, Patrick Woolsey

Re: Navigating folders and files in a project sidebar from the keyboard?

Hey Chris, These two shortcuts work great. Thanks! Alfredo > On Mar 7, 2018, at 5:52 PM, Christopher Stone <listmeis...@suddenlink.net> > wrote: > > On 03/06/2018, at 16:33, F. Alfredo Rego <f.alfredor...@gmail.com > <mailto:f.alfredor...@gmail.com>>

Re: Navigating folders and files in a project sidebar from the keyboard?

2018, at 10:29 AM, Lee Hinde <leehi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Look for Expert Preferences in BBEdit Help (under the Help Menu). > >> On Mar 10, 2018, at 9:24 AM, F. Alfredo Rego <f.alfredor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Very Nice, Patrick. >> >> I

Re: Navigating folders and files in a project sidebar from the keyboard?

Very Nice, Patrick. Is there a compact/terse list of all of these great “accessory prefs” somewhere? Thanks. Alfredo > On Mar 10, 2018, at 10:12 AM, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > > On 3/9/18 at 6:11 PM, bria...@gmail.com (Brian Christiansen) wrote: > >>> defaults write

Re: Navigating folders and files in a project sidebar from the keyboard?

> On 3/6/18 at 5:33 PM, f.alfredor...@gmail.com (F. Alfredo Rego) wrote: > >> Any tricks for getting the focus on the [project’s] file list WITHOUT having >> to click on it (i.e., without taking our hands off the keyboard)? > > If you have a project open, try "

Re: Regular expression with negative look-behind assertion

le string lengths? >> >> So much to learn! >> >> >> With many thanks to the three of you, >> >> Alfredo >> >> >> >> On Apr 16, 2018, at 7:09 AM, Christopher Stone <listmeis...@suddenlink.net >> <mailto:listmeis

Re: Regular expression with negative look-behind assertion

riable string lengths? > > So much to learn! > > > With many thanks to the three of you, > > Alfredo > > > > On Apr 16, 2018, at 7:09 AM, Christopher Stone <listmeis...@suddenlink.net > <mailto:listmeis...@suddenlink.net>> wrote: > > On 04/16/2018

Re: Navigating folders and files in a project sidebar from the keyboard?

Hello Brian, I use Keyboard Maestro with great success for these kinds of challenges. Enjoy! Alfredo > On Mar 5, 2018, at 4:07 PM, Brian Christiansen wrote: > > Hello, > > After searching the user manual (love that thing) and this group, I can't > find anything on

Re: I believe that SOME non-greedy quantifier(s) SOMEWHERE might help

. Simplicity is VERY powerful. I hope everyone else in our group will benefit from these conversations. Thanks for your great tutorial and example. Alfredo > On Oct 5, 2018, at 12:38 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 10/04/2018, at 10:09, F. Alfredo Rego <mailto:f.alfred

Grep: pattern_2 NOT preceded by pattern_1 (with pattern_1 not necessarily IMMEDIATELY to the left of pattern_2)

Hello everyone. I would like to craft an expression to find lines that contain pattern_2 NOT preceded by pattern_1 (with pattern_1 not necessarily IMMEDIATELY to the left of pattern_2). This is the catch, so let me repeat it with emphasis on IMMEDIATELY: with pattern_1 not necessarily

Re: Any tricks to set the non-default value of "Strip trailing whitespace" for an individual file?

BINGO! That [*] did it. Of course. Obvious in retrospect. Thanks, Jim. Alfredo > On Oct 22, 2018, at 8:57 AM, Jim Danner wrote: > > Shouldn't you have a line that contains > [*] > > before the trim_trailing_whitespace line? It seems so from the example on the > Editorconfig homepage. > >

Any tricks to set the non-default value of "Strip trailing whitespace" for an individual file?

Hello everyone, BBEdit Preferences for Text Files lets us set a default choice for “Strip trailing whitespace” as a GLOBAL setting. I have this checked (to YES), because I like this choice for my source files. However, for clippings (and other “stencils”), it’s convenient to have a trailing

Re: Grep: pattern_2 NOT preceded by pattern_1 (with pattern_1 not necessarily IMMEDIATELY to the left of pattern_2)

; > On 10/13/2018, at 12:26, F. Alfredo Rego <mailto:f.alfredor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> Did you mean to use the same name for both patterns? > > > Hey Alfredo, > > No. That was a goof up. > > I also misplaced a character. > > Try this: > >

Re: Grep: pattern_2 NOT preceded by pattern_1 (with pattern_1 not necessarily IMMEDIATELY to the left of pattern_2)

That was a lame joke (to attempt to convey the power of regexes, for better or for worse) and I’m sorry if I scared you ;-) > On Oct 19, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 10/19/2018, at 17:14, F. Alfredo Rego <mailto:f.alfredor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >

Re: Grep: pattern_2 NOT preceded by pattern_1 (with pattern_1 not necessarily IMMEDIATELY to the left of pattern_2)

stmeis...@suddenlink.net>> wrote: > > On 10/12/2018, at 16:03, F. Alfredo Rego <mailto:f.alfredor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> I would like to craft an expression to find lines that contain pattern_2 NOT >> preceded by pattern_1 >> (with pattern_1 not necessarily IMMED

Re: Grep: pattern_2 NOT preceded by pattern_1 (with pattern_1 not necessarily IMMEDIATELY to the left of pattern_2)

Hi Patrick, The special case “fixed-length specific string” is perfect. So, I rephrase: Dear engine, Here are some lines: Some stuff of no interest whatsoever ostracized_stringwanted_string ostracized_string wanted_string ostracized_string with Some stuff and then

Re: I believe that SOME non-greedy quantifier(s) SOMEWHERE might help

, everything becomes clear. ¡Mil gracias! Alfredo > On Oct 4, 2018, at 8:29 AM, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > > On Oct 04, 2018, at 01:39, F. Alfredo Rego wrote: >> >> Dear regex gurus, >> >> I have many files that contain text like this and I would like to sel

Re: Noob trying to improve on these grep / expressions

Thanks, Chris. I really appreciate (and enjoy) every one of your wise contributions. Alfredo > On Jan 4, 2019, at 12:58 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 01/04/2019, at 13:44, F. Alfredo Rego <mailto:f.alfredor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> RegExRX seems to have

Re: Noob trying to improve on these grep / expressions

Hey Chris, Great news for all of us. I got RegExRX from the App Store. Thanks. Alfredo > On Jan 5, 2019, at 12:39 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 01/04/2019, at 13:44, F. Alfredo Rego <mailto:f.alfredor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> RegExRX seems to have

Any ideas for a "super include" ?

Hello everyone, I don’t know whether this is a common kind of need that has already been met a thousand times, so please enlighten me either way. Instead of typing certain repetitive (and dynamic) content into a file, I would like to use some kind of a “super include” (for BBEdit, of course)

Re: Noob trying to improve on these grep / expressions

Hey Chris, RegExRX seems to have gone dormant five years ago. Do you have any news/updates regarding newer/better approaches, if any? Thanks. Alfredo > On Jan 4, 2019, at 12:10 PM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > Tools like BBEdit , Patterns >

Re: Asking the experts for a less greedy regex

Thanks, Patrick. Alfredo > On Jun 22, 2019, at 1:15 PM, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2019, at 13:03, F. Alfredo Rego wrote: >> >> I’m interested in finding “if” statements that contain the negation operator >> “!” (or potentially several negation oper

Asking the experts for a less greedy regex

Hello Regex gurus, I’m interested in finding “if” statements that contain the negation operator “!” (or potentially several negation operators) anywhere, regardless of blank lines, parentheses, indentation, and so on. My motivation is to verify, one by one, the scope(s) of the negation(s).

Re: Relative Alias Creator AppleScript ⇢ was ⇢ Any way to DESELECT/UNSELECT selected text?

Very nicely done, Chris. We share the same philosophy: If I find myself doing the same thing more than twice, I invest some quality time automating it. I’m sure everyone in this group will appreciate your well-crafted script. Thanks! Alfredo > On Apr 26, 2019, at 10:30 PM, Christopher Stone

Re: Any way to DESELECT/UNSELECT selected text ?

insertion point before its text), so I appreciate learning about it. With gratitude, Alfredo > On Apr 26, 2019, at 2:19 AM, Christopher Stone > wrote: > > On 04/21/2019, at 10:11, F. Alfredo Rego <mailto:f.alfredor...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> I’m using AppleScrip

Any way to DESELECT/UNSELECT selected text ?

Hello everyone, I’m using AppleScript + BBEdit to “refresh” all the files in the “Release” directory with the contents of all the files in the “Prototype” directory. I do this “transfer of the file contents” (instead of simply copying and over-writing the files), to preserve the entire git

Re: Any way to DESELECT/UNSELECT selected text ?

11:11 AM, f.alfredor...@gmail.com (F. Alfredo Rego) wrote: > >> I have explored everywhere I can, but I can’t find any way to >> DESELECT/UNSELECT selected text. > > There is no concept of "unselecting", because there is always a selection, > even if

FrameMaker: Still alive and well and powering the BBEdit User Manual

This might be totally off-topic but, given that FrameMaker powers the BBEdit User Manual, I thought I would take a chance for a couple of quick questions, whose answers can certainly be offline. As an early adopter of FrameMaker (and Quadralay’s WebWorks Publisher) before FrameMaker fell into

Does anyone know of a Dart plugin for BBEdit?

Greetings everyone, Does anyone know of a Dart plugin for BBEdit? > https://dart.dev/tools#ides-and-editors > Thanks. Alfredo -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or need technical support, please email

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 13.1 (414031) pre-release

Thanks, Rich. > On May 11, 2020, at 11:35 AM, Rich Siegel wrote: . . . > * The "Selected text only" option in the Find window is now >disabled and turned off automatically if the target search window >doesn't have a selection. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 13.2 (415025) pre-release

Ohyes ;-) Thanks very much. Alfredo > On Sep 21, 2020, at 1:01 PM, Rich Siegel wrote: . . . > * [DOC] Have you ever had the experience where you make a new > document, put some text into, and then later on, when you're > closing it (either alone or as part of closing a bunch of

Re: How to actually set an expert preference?

# Cool-O. Now, for the 64k: Is there a shortcut to see the current settings for ALL expert preferences? Something along the lines of "defaults read com.barebones.bbedit all” ? Thanks. Alfredo > On Jun 15, 2020, at 8:50 AM, Rich Siegel wrote: > > On 6/15/20 at 10:32 AM, b...@cruzio.com

Re: How to actually set an expert preference?

Intriguing. From the man page: BUGS Defaults can be structured in very complex ways, making it difficult for the user to enter them with this command. Gulp ;-) Alfredo > On Jun 15, 2020, at 4:35 PM, Patrick Woolsey wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2020, at 18:19, F. Alfredo Re

Re: Deleting a file via AppleScript

I’m impressed by all the different approaches and perspectives. I hope other people have experienced a similar widening and deepening of knowledge regarding the nuances of this topic. Thanks to everyone! Alfredo -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature

Deleting a file via AppleScript

Hi everyone, I would like to delete a file via AppleScript. I’m sure the solution is trivially simple, but so far I can’t find a way. The easy way would be to do something like this, which sadly does exactly what it says and it doesn’t delete the file: set theFile to (open file

Re: Deleting a file via AppleScript

Hi “MediaMouth” (sorry about my not knowing your name), This is perfect. This makes my Rube-Goldberg approach immediately obsolete. Your approach cuts away all the unnecessary fat and produces a lean structure. I’m quickly learning that there’s a command-line app for “that” (whatever “that”

Re: Deleting a file via AppleScript

rt of AppleScript syntax: "Close & Delete" theFile I suspect that this can be a super-short AppleScript, but unfortunately I have no idea about the syntax. Thanks. Alfredo > On Mar 19, 2021, at 8:43 AM, Rich Siegel wrote: > > On 19 Mar 2021, at 1:39, F. Alfredo Reg

Re: Deleting a file via AppleScript

Hi all, Thanks for all the help from different perspectives and styles. In the end, MediaMouth's was the simplest, as a one-liner that abstracted Jean’s multi-liner: > On Mar 19, 2021, at 3:44 PM, MediaMouth wrote: > > tell application "Finder" to delete POSIX file >

Re: AppleScript: Use Numbers.app to create PDF files from a BBEdit TSV file

Thanks for the advice, Johnny. I'll pursue this direction. Alfredo > On Jun 1, 2023, at 11:36, Johnny Ragadoo wrote: > > Unless you have a specific need for your output to be in Numbers, try the > mail merge feature in Pages. > > I think you can use your tsv file directly in Pages. If not,

Re: Problem With Zapping Gremlins Settings

This is truly wonderful. There are so many ways to skin a cat's character(s). > On Jan 17, 2024, at 15:12, Rich Siegel wrote: > > On 17 Jan 2024, at 16:49, Bill Kochman wrote: > >> However, when I use the Zap Gremlins function, it is ALSO removing all of >> the apostrophes from the copied