What does "zap gremline" mean?
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Steven Samuels
<[email protected]> wrote:
> For Mac users who edit do-files in BBEdit or Text Wrangler, here's a simple
> script to comment and uncomment lines in selected text. (Yes, "uncomment" is
> in the dictionary). Although the script can be slow, I find it saves me
> effort compared to inserting and deleting "/*" and "*/" before and after a
> text block. Text Wrangler users, substitute "Text Wrangler" in the tell
> statement. To use: open in BBEdit or TW, zap gremline, insert into Script
> Editor, save the script into the BBEdit Scripts folder, and assign a menu
> key combination.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> (*
> Add & remove // in Selection
> Activate with Menu Key
> *)
>
> tell application "BBEdit"
> activate
> repeat with x in lines of selection of window 1 of text document 1
> if exists character 1 of text of x then
> set start to character 1 of text of x as text
> else
> set start to ""
> end if
> if start is not "/" then
> replace "^" using "// " searching in text of x options {search mode:grep}
> else
> replace "^// " using "" searching in text of x options {search mode:grep}
> end if
> end repeat
> end tell
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> Steven Samuels
> 845-246-0774
> 18 Cantine's Island
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