Re: Selecting entire line in BBedit
Re: Selecting entire line in BBedit
- Subject: Re: Selecting entire line in BBedit
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:21:45 -0500
- Organization: [very little]
Maxime Paquette wrote:
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From: "Maxime Paquette" <email@hidden>
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To: "AppleScript-users" <email@hidden>
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Subject: Selecting entire line in BBedit.
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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:39:47 -0500
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Hi,
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I'm triyng to select an entire line in a text file in BBedti 3.1 to
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delete it. The problem is, depending on the window size, it select 1/2 or
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3/4 of the line because the line, when the window is small, is almost always
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on 2 lines. So half the line that are supposed to be deleted aren't. I
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tried to resize the windows, so that the line will be on one line, without
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sucess.
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So, here's a part of the script, it's just an exemple to delete a single
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line:
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Tell application "BBedit 3.1"
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activate
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open file "blabla:blabla:blabla"
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Find "333" -- all the line that I want to delete begin by that
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Select Current Line -- I tried "Full Lines" too
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Delete selection
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End Tell
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Any idea how I can select an entire line? or maybe an other way to delete
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all the line I want?
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Thanks.
If your lines end in carriage returns they're actually paragraphs, in
which case you could select the paragraph with the same index number and
get the whole "line".
Marc [12/6/00 5:21:41 PM]