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From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 22 Mar 2010 12:24 J. Stewart wrote: > On 2010-03-21 20:52:01 -0400, M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> said: >>> For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my >>> primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about >>> how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features >>> it would be really great. >> >> What I it that Bean has that Textedit doesn't? > > Bean does not support Applescript! That's a show stopper here. TextEdit > does support it. Aha... - and so does Bean! - And what is this then "associate_app.scpt"? - In fact this is the AppleScript enabler insidee the application code. And through the 'Services' menu you have directly access to Apples own ScriptEditor. - And you seem to forget that Bean isnot meant as a full featured texteditor, but an enhanced version of TextEdti towards a more featured textprocessor - or wordprocessor if you prefer that term... > Personally I use Tex-Edit Plus and/or TextWrangler depending on my task. > Both of them have extensive Applescript and reg-ex support. They are > both worth ponying up a little spare change. I also have and use TexEdit Plus, and have done so since ver. 1.1 or 1,2 way back in the 90'ties and like it. But I donot like Textwrangler that much. It is reduced in the use of plug-ins which were usable with the olde BBEdit Lite 6.x and still usable in the full BBEdit version. I also have the full BBEdit 8.5, but won't upgrade to the ver. 9.x, since I don't use it that much anymore. Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <mac-manNOSP(a)Mstofanet.dk> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com OpenOffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From: isw on 22 Mar 2010 13:30 In article <jollyroger-49FC62.09532622032010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article <2010032207321116807-cfnzrpu(a)crevtrrarg>, > J. Stewart <cfnzrpu(a)crevtrr.arg> wrote: > > > On 2010-03-21 20:52:01 -0400, M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> said: > > > > >> For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my > > >> primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about > > >> how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features > > >> it would be really great. > > > > > > > > > What I it that Bean has that Textedit doesn't? > > > > Bean does not support Applescript! That's a show stopper here. TextEdit > > does support it. > > > > Personally I use Tex-Edit Plus and/or TextWrangler depending on my > > task. Both of them have extensive Applescript and reg-ex support. They > > are both worth ponying up a little spare change. > > What sort of things do you need Applescript support to do in a text > editor? I use an Applescript to get TextWrangler to rummage through iPhoto's "AlbumData.xml" file to build a list of all the albums a chosen image is in. Isaac
From: David Empson on 22 Mar 2010 16:29 Erik Richard S�rensen <NOSPAM(a)NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > J. Stewart wrote: > > On 2010-03-21 20:52:01 -0400, M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> said: > >>> For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my > >>> primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about > >>> how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features > >>> it would be really great. > >> > >> What I it that Bean has that Textedit doesn't? > > > > Bean does not support Applescript! That's a show stopper here. TextEdit > > does support it. > > Aha... - and so does Bean! - And what is this then "associate_app.scpt"? > - In fact this is the AppleScript enabler insidee the application code. No it isn't. That is an AppleScript which Bean can run. Judging from the name, it probably does something like change the application associated with a particular extension. (The source code to the script is not there, so it isn't possible to see what it does.) Bean itself has no AppleScript dictionary, and the application is not flagged as being scriptable, as reported by Script Editor if you try to open Bean with AppleScript Editor. Bean is not scriptable. > And through the 'Services' menu you have directly access to Apples own > ScriptEditor. So? It can't tell Bean to do anything, which is the point of the application being scriptable. -- David Empson dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Barry Margolin on 22 Mar 2010 18:28 In article <2010032207321116807-cfnzrpu(a)crevtrrarg>, J. Stewart <cfnzrpu(a)crevtrr.arg> wrote: > On 2010-03-21 20:52:01 -0400, M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> said: > > >> For a long time I've been using TextEdit as my > >> primary document reading, composing, and editing tool, and griping about > >> how it's almost good enough and if Apple would only add a few features > >> it would be really great. > > > > > > What I it that Bean has that Textedit doesn't? > > Bean does not support Applescript! That's a show stopper here. TextEdit > does support it. If you want a programmable text editor, you really should be using Emacs. -- Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
From: Jeffrey Goldberg on 22 Mar 2010 20:55
On 2010-03-22 5:44 PM, Lewis wrote: > In message <barmar-40072B.18281022032010(a)nothing.attdns.com> Barry > <barmar(a)alum.mit.edu> wrote: >> If you want a programmable text editor, you really should be using Emacs. > > You seem to have misspelt 'vim'. Haven't we had enough religious debate for one day? -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read HTML or poorly quoting posts Reply-To address is valid |