Re: Insert text into a document (beginners Question)
Re: Insert text into a document (beginners Question)
- Subject: Re: Insert text into a document (beginners Question)
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:15:30 -0800
On 12/12/03 7:56 AM, "Robert Morse" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Another beginners question.
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Say I have a document loaded into TextEdit, and would like
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to insert some text at the current cursor position. How
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would I go about that.
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I have found a way to get all the text, found how to get
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the "selection point", but this gives me something like
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"Selection at character position 34 of file bla", which
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is really not what I think I need.
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If anyone can just do a small snippet on how to do it
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it would be great. I have the "Applescript in a nut
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shell" and got on order the other "O'Reilly" book, but
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that will take some time to arrive.
You can't possibly really mean TextEdit, can you? It doesn't have anything
to do with selection in its dictionary. Do you mean Tex-Edit Plus? Its terms
are exactly those you mention. If not, you should get Tex-Edit Plus
immediately. Its scriptability is a model of AppleScript implementation,
whereas TextEdit's scripting is junk. Which is unfortunate, since the app
itself is very good. Never mind. In Tex-Edit what you want is really simple
to do.
tell application "Tex-Edit Plus"
set selection to (return & return & "I'm now inserting a new paragraph
at this point." & return & return)
end tell
If you don't want it to be a new paragraph just leave out the 'returns':
tell application "Tex-Edit Plus"
set selection to "I'm now inserting a new sentence. "
end tell
--
Paul Berkowitz
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