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From: Harald Hanche-Olsen on 22 Mar 2010 21:30 + Jeffrey Goldberg <nobody(a)goldmark.org>: > 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? Indeed, why does anybody see the need to move beyond ed? Ed is the editor. Nothing more needs to be said. -- * Harald Hanche-Olsen <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/> - It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. -- Bertrand Russell
From: Jolly Roger on 23 Mar 2010 01:17 In article <slrnhqfsht.2tpm.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>, Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote: > In message <jollyroger-49FC62.09532622032010(a)news.individual.net> > Jolly <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > What sort of things do you need Applescript support to do in a text > > editor? > > You're joking, I hope? > > (granted, I use regex much more than applescript, or grep/awk/sed, but > then I am a CLI monkey, People who aren't CLI monkeys live and die by > Applescript) No, I'm genuinely interested. For me, most everything I would do in a text editor with Applescript is actually more easily done simply by reading the text file directly with the Applescript "read" command and so on. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 23 Mar 2010 01:18 In article <isw-94EAEC.10300322032010@[216.168.3.50]>, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > 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. Couldn't you instead do that directly with Applescript's file access command to read the text in and do stuff with it? -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 23 Mar 2010 01:19 In article <nospam.m-m-B86D95.11490722032010(a)cpe-76-190-186-198.neo.res.rr.com>, M-M <nospam.m-m(a)ny.more> wrote: > In article <jollyroger-49FC62.09532622032010(a)news.individual.net>, > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > > What sort of things do you need Applescript support to do in a text > > editor? > > > SO much, I don't know where to begin. > > Tex-Edit comes with a bunch of scripts and a download site to contribute > or leech from. > > Check it out: > > http://dougscripts.com/texedit/ > > Example (just grabbed at random): > > Email Obscurer > written by Andrew Sasaki > posted: Sep 5, 2003 > This script replaces the characters in email addresses with their HTML > equivalents, preventing them from being harvested by site-crawling > spambots while displaying properly in a browser. But you could do that in plain Applescript without TextEdit... Why bother with scripting a text editor to do what you can do without any application at all? -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: M-M on 23 Mar 2010 08:05
In article <jollyroger-5BC1E2.00194523032010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > Why bother with scripting a text editor to do what you can do without > any application at all? Because it's easier to have a drop-down menu with a boatload of scripts. -- m-m http://www.mhmyers.com |