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

On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:59 AM, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: > Does Google preserve format=flowed? If not, maybe that's what's > causing the problem (assuming a compliant email app sent the message > in question). I subscribe to several lists that have recently converted to Google groups. The copy of m

Re: New MacBook Pro had 9.1.1 installed but where???

On Jun 27, 2009, at 11:42 AM, tareichert wrote: > I am currently setting up my Macbook Pro and before I installed > BBedit, I found that it had 9.1.1 installed when I select the menu to > view a text file. Problem is I cannot find it to delete. I tried > updating it to 9.2.1 (and also entering in

Re: Clippings going to terminal have bad returns

On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Burk wrote: > Hi, I have a small problem on upgrading to snow leopard. > > BBEdit clippings stored on the desktop/finder and then pasted into > terminal don't return properly, but end with backslash+question mark. > Text dragged directly from BBEdit to Terminal is OK,

Re: BBEdit still "uses" an unsupported product?

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 codes no longer work in Snow Leopard. This mechanism has already been eliminated. --

Re: Text Factory Save AS BBEdit

On Oct 7, 2010, at 11:18 PM, Greg Reyna wrote: > I've got a bunch of text files from an old Amiga computer that the Mac sees > as Unix Executable Files. All I want to do is open them then save them as > BBEdit text files so they will open correctly when I dbl-click on them. I'm > afraid that

Re: how to paste in a specific column

On Oct 14, 2010, at 8:09 PM, jtk wrote: > Obviously Doug you > haven't had to program in Fortran 90/95. Official form for > continuations is to put an ampersand in col. 73 of the first line and > another one in col. 6 of the continuation line. This is not true. (Unless you are saying there is a l

Re: Scrolling a document with keys

On Mar 1, 2011, at 4:14 PM, allermand wrote: > Until v. 9.6.3 I have always used Ctrl + Arrow-down and Ctrl + Arrow- > up for scrolling a document (any kind) within the BBEdit viewport. As > Ctrl + Alt + Arrow-up and Ctrl + Alt + Arrow-down for the same purpose > just with faster scroll.. Contro

Re: sh script

On Oct 2, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > I got it working on the command line by cd’ing to the directory it was > located in & giving it an absolute path using ~/ > Even running chmod 777 on it wouldn’t alter the shebang error in BBEdit (both > ‘Hello, World’ examples above run fine in

grep replace string puzzle

I encountered a grep replace string conundrum this afternoon. I had some strings "ns_", "ms_", or "ns_". I wanted to insert a digit "1" after the "s", i.e., "ns_" > "ns1_", "ms_" > "ms1_", "hs_" > "hs1_". I started to write Search: ([nmh]s)_ Replace: \11_ … Oops. \11_ looks like sub-string

Re: [ANN] BBEdit 10.5.6

On Dec 17, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Charlie Garrison wrote: > On 17/12/13 at 11:31 AM -0800, rowen wrote: > >> I followed that link before posting. I can't see what changed between the >> two official releases: 10.5.6 (3340) and 10.5.6 (3342). There is a long list >> of fixes, but nothing about what

Re: Best way to cat multiple files to a BBEdit window ??

On Apr 24, 2014, at 9:06 PM, Rick Gordon wrote: > Thanks, Rod, > > That general pattern of piping to the bbedit command will have all sorts of > uses to me. > >> Rod Buchanan >> April 24, 2014 1:44 PM >> >> cat file ... | bbedit In that case consider creating an alias

Re: How to see all the HTML-files whitout the folders in a project?

On Nov 18, 2014, at 5:20 PM, Charlie Garrison wrote: > Smart folders can have multiple criteria. But I don't use them so not sure > how to add the "not matching" criteria. Option-Click the + button for adding more criteria. You get a pop-up to select "'Any', 'All', or 'None' of the following a

Re: Command Line Create New BBEdit Document & Paste

On Dec 15, 2014, at 1:36 PM, John Delacour wrote: > > echo some_text > x.txt; open -a bbedit x.txt It's easier than that. echo some_text | bbedit --new-window See the bbedit man page for other useful options. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature reque

Re: Multi-File Search in all file tagged with…

On Feb 13, 2015, at 2:55 AM, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > > Is there’s a way to specify „all files tagged with “ as a Multi-File > Search - "destination“? > > I would like to prepend a (same) title („# How to play - ") to all file > tagged with a specific tag (= „musik“). When you say, "all file

Re: Hide Formatting?

On Jan 12, 2016, at 1:48 PM, Robert A. Ober wrote: > > I searched and surprisingly did not find the answer. I have an rtf document > that I have open in BBEdit 11.1.4 . I want to see the document like I do in > TextEdit as a properly formatted document without the formatting visible. > Prev

Re: Hide Formatting?

On Jan 12, 2016, at 6:47 PM, Robert A. Ober wrote: > > Thanks for that but I want to use BBEdit instead of TextEdit but for now that > is not possible. My suggestion was that you do use BBEdit. Open a TextEdit window to the side to act as a preview. Do your editing in BBEdit. As soon as you sa

Re: Viewing CSV Files in BBEdit - How to Automatically Visually Format Columns

On Feb 23, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Bucky Junior wrote: > > You cannot set different tab widths so all tab widths are the same and > apparently applies to all documents although very easy to reset. You can set tab width for the current document in the Fonts panel: View > Text Display > Show Fonts. T

Re: Functional (and Recent) Python Linter for BBEdit?

On May 23, 2016, at 5:55 PM, Archie Campbell wrote: > > That leads to a new question: does anyone know of a good copy editor plugin > for my brain? I have, for a long time, found that one of the best proofreading tools for certain types of errors is Mac OS's built-in text-to-speech function.

Re: Remove the ".bbprojectd"?

On Oct 28, 2016, at 7:02 AM, H. Mijail Antón Quiles wrote: > > I have tried renaming the .bbprojectd file in Finder, and the title of the > window does change. But then it loses its connection with BBEdit, who also > doesn't know how to open it. I'm not sure I understand the issue. You just do

Re: a couple of questions while editing a TOC

On Oct 30, 2016, at 2:58 AM, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > I'm searching for a couple of things: > I would like to delete all of the "(Viewed)" - words (after the name of the > chapters). > I would like to delete all the "Video" - words before the duration of each > chapter. > I would like to concate

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

On Mar 12, 2017, at 4:39 PM, Rob Lewis wrote: > > The "Process lines containing..." command is very useful. It would also be > useful to have an inverse operation to process lines that do not contain the > search string. How about select "Delete matched lines"? Make a copy of the file first,

Apple buys ...

I was jolted awake this morning while scanning the headlines in Google News. There in the Technology section: "Apple Buys Beddit". OMG! ... Wait, did they misspell it? Then I read the lede, "Beddit makes sleep tracking devices..." I guess I can go back to sleep now. -- This is the BBEdit Talk

Re: BBEdit Backups!

On Jul 5, 2017, at 5:44 PM, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > > all of my data (photos and everything else) is on an external drive - and > TimeMachine doesn't backups those AFAIK. Sure it does. I have several external disks backed up with Time Machine. -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion gr

Re: BBEdit Backups!

On Jul 6, 2017, at 2:27 AM, Vlad Ghitulescu wrote: > > Do I have to specify something / somewhere special in order to make this > happen? Tobias Horvath is right. Simply remove the disk from the Time Machine exclusion list in System Preferences. And, of course, have the disk mounted the next t

Re: compare docx files?

On Jul 26, 2017, at 7:05 PM, Ken G. Brown wrote: > > I’m trying to use BBedit 11.6.7 (397078) (06/15/2017) to compare two docx > files just to find if they are identical. > I open them and place as the two front windows but when I compare the two > front windows, it selects other windows. A

Re: compare docx files?

On Jul 26, 2017, at 10:26 PM, David Brostoff wrote: > > When I try that the .docx files are displayed as gibberish. (Maybe they have > to be in .txt or .rtf format?) That's because, as I said earlier, they are ZIP files. Depending on what it is that you consider a "difference", comparing these

Re: BBEdit 12 columns

On Oct 15, 2017, at 11:45 AM, jgill wrote: > > Here is a typical line... > > 06/04/2010,DPC,"'CALL REF.NO. 0552 , TO A/C > 0352",300.00,130117.86,"'G J & M","'504237-1424", > > The HTML & is the giveaway that the CSV is being generated from a HTML > file. When I search and replace

Re: Why can't it be easier to change font size on the fly?

On Nov 3, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Everywhere is Nowhere wrote: > > And besides all of that, why do I have to change the default size just to > make a momentary change in the font size? Another way to change fonts is with the Fonts panel: View > Text Display > Show Fonts -- This is the BBEdit Tal

Re: Max Character Length of Search String / Trimming Unsubscribed Addresses from List

On Dec 18, 2017, at 2:34 AM, Rick Gordon wrote: > > I'd also be interested to know what other approaches I might consider for > trimming a list of one email address per line, removing addresses from a list > of invalid or unsubscribed addresses. I haven't gotten around to installing version 12

Re: Multiple Find and Replace at once

On Apr 10, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Mike W wrote: > > Is there a search pattern that would be able to do a Multiple Find and > Replace at once? I've never used the feature myself, so I might be misunderstanding how it works, but your task sounds like what the new Canonize command is for. (See the ma

Re: Checkmark denoting current doc prevents knowing if the doc is dirty

I think the difference is whether you have one document or multiple documents per window. The dots Simdude is seeing are in the sub-menu, which lists the documents in the selected window. If the window has only one document, there is no sub-menu, and BBEdit only has room for the active-window ch

Re: How to Create Finder Folders from BBEdit Text List

On 2019 Jan 9, at 20:27, Bill Kochman wrote: > > 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 will > take those 300 names, and create actual folders with those exact names on my > hard drive in a folder

Re: One-liner to replace multiple spaces between words (only words) with one space isn't working

On 2019 Jan 12, at 20:32, Dj wrote: > > I'm only trying to change space between words and not carriage returns and > all that. So far I've tried placing this in the scripts folder: > perl -pe 's/ +/ /g' Why use perl at all? Since you're using BBEdit, use BBEdit's Find & Replace. Find (grep):

Re: BBEdit from the command line and disk browser?

On 2019 Feb 10, at 15:27, Christopher Stone wrote: > > Why does the parenthetic isolation of the command NOT change the working > directory of the shell? Parentheses around shell commands create a "sub-shell". The sub-shell is a new shell environment separate from the parent shell session. It

Re: Problems with spellcheck?

On 2019 Feb 12, at 17:31, @lbutlr wrote: > > This is very different behavior from TextEdit or Mail compose windows. Not > sure what is going on, but it does look buggy to me. I was having this problem a year or so ago. I discovered that I could make it work like TextEdit by changing the langua

Re: Option to display control characters and other invisibles with some form of identification instead of just a generic symbol.

Have you tried the Zap Gremlins command? -- 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 to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: --- You received t

Re: Regex help - matching unique URLs and deleting HTML encoding

On 2020 Jan 26, at 23:18, Sammy Banawan wrote: > > I figured out an even easier way - just search for anything in angle brackets > and delete it. <.*?> and replace with nothing. I should have thought of that > before. Thanks for the help! If you want to remove ALL tags, try Markup > Utiliti

Re: (probably :-) GREP-question regarding Photos-metadata

Vlad, I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish. Why do you want to use Finder Tags when photo files already have a standard tagging system, IPTC, built in? JPEG, TIFF, PNG, HEIF all contain IPTC in the file. (I don't know about Canon, but Nikon raw files also contain IPTC.) There is

Re: Counting occurrences of names

On 2020 Oct 6, at 14:42, Fletcher Sandbeck wrote: > > I'd do this in two steps. Simplifying on Fletcher's solution, and staying in BBEdit: Use Find and Extract as Fletcher describes. Don't bother to save the file or go into Terminal. Instead, use Text > Run Unix Command… Enter the command:

Re: Stumped on this one

On 2021 Jun 15, at 19:28, @lbutlr wrote: > > I want to replace the first date in file 1 with the first date in file 2, and > so on through the entire file. I'll bet there are several ways to do it with the Canonize command. For example, extract all the date lines from the first file. Then past

Re: Remove line returns from within a paragraph but not between paragraphs

On 2021 Nov 2, at 23:04, Gavin Brooks wrote: > > I have a lot of text that has been copied from a PDF, that I need to make > into text files for research purposes. When the text copied over, there was a > hard line return at the end of every sentences, and a blank space between > paragraphs. I

Re: File links/URLs within BBEdit documents

On 2022 Jan 10, at 18:45, Craig Heilman wrote: > > Bringing this back to BBEdit - is there anything in BBEdit that can simplify > this process? I like the idea of starting with the path because that doesn’t > lock me into any of the Finder/Finder replacements but how to make this as > close to

Re: how to find a repeated 200-character sentence in a large text file

How about splitting the text so that each sentence is one line. Then use Text > Process Duplicate Lines… -- 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: Changing file NAMES with regex

On 2022 May 8, at 04:20, LUCA LORENZO Bonatti wrote: > > Hello, is there any way to change, not the content of all files in a folder, > but the NAMES of all files in a folder, by using BBedit directly and regex? This is a good application for a Shell Worksheet. Make two lists of the files. App