Re: Kind of OT, Kind of Not
Re: Kind of OT, Kind of Not
- Subject: Re: Kind of OT, Kind of Not
- From: "Jacopille, David" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 12:09:38 +0000
- Thread-topic: Kind of OT, Kind of Not
Jon's Commands was a cool drink of water for a young thirsty soul. I thank you also.
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From: Schmidt, Michael [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 05:21 AM
To: AppleScript-Users AppleScript-Users Mail <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Kind of OT, Kind of Not
Hi, Jon,
I thought you earned millions of dollars in the late nineties for your
famous jon¹s command scripting addition. Your work there really was worth
a lot of money! It helped us in so many scripting situations that time and
finally saved a lot of jobs because we were ready for competition after
reaching a high level of automation!
Long time ago but I think it¹s never too late to say "Thank you!"
Greetings,
Michael / Hamburg
Am 19.03.15 02:23 schrieb "Jon Pugh" unter <email@hidden>:
>On Mar 18, 2015, at 3:55 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
>> On 19 Mar 2015, at 7:22 am, S. J. Cunningham <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> I get the impression from reading this list that some of you guys do
>>>Applescript for a living... or at least for an income. Not that I am
>>>tempted or have the time, but can one really make money doing
>>>Applescript?
>>
>> Some people do, and there are a lot of others for whom it might not be
>>a title but for whom it makes up a fair slice of their jobs. Mainly in
>>the publishing industry, where workflows are often clearly defined and
>>many of the tools highly scriptable.
>
>I¹m a programmer, and I use AppleScript quite a lot to help me do my job.
> BBEdit is long time scriptable text editor, and since editing text is
>basically what programmers do, I¹m able to automate a lot of minor tasks.
>
>For example, I often have to open C++ files as I paw through code. I
>wrote a script which uses the Unix locate command to quickly find files
>based on the selected class name in the editor. It has a number of
>project specific heuristics in it, so that it knows how to do name
>transformations (uppercase, lowercase, specific directories, etc) such
>that I can Cmd-D to get the file I want, practically instantly.
>
>I have literally hundreds of scripts accessible in my BBEdit scripts
>palette. Most are simple little things designed to do some repetitive
>task quickly. I even have one called Munge.scpt that I use as a scratch
>script to do whatever text transformation I need to do at that moment.
>It has a simple ³for every line of the front document, do this² shell in
>it.
>
>I don¹t get paid to write AppleScripts, but I write them to better/faster
>do the job I *do* get paid to do.
>
>Jon
>
>Do do do, dah dah dah.
>
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