Re: Scripting Terminal
Re: Scripting Terminal
- Subject: Re: Scripting Terminal
- From: Paul Scott <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:26:06 -0700
That does, indeed. Thank you.
But, I don't understand why "set s to contents of t" doesn't work. The value of s should be of type text. But it isn't. Looks like a bug to me, but is it? Or, is my understanding lacking?
Paul
On Jun 24, 2010, at 6:12 PM, email@hidden wrote:
> This works:
> tell application "Terminal"
> tell front window
> set t to selected tab
> do script "1G" in t
> set s to properties of t
> display dialog contents of s
> end tell
> end tell
>
> hth,
>
> ed
> On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:11pm, Paul Scott wrote:
>
>> Why doesn't this work?
>>
>> tell application "Terminal"
>> tell front window
>> set t to selected tab
>> do script "1G" in t
>> set s to contents of t
>> display dialog s
>> end tell
>> end tell
>>
>> But this does:
>>
>> tell application "Terminal"
>> tell front window
>> do script "1G" in selected tab
>> set s to contents of selected tab
>> display dialog s
>> end tell
>> end tell
>>
>> ???
>>
>> Paul
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