Re: st: Apple Script to Comment Lines in Text Wranger/BBEdit

[Steven Samuels <sjhsamuels@earthlink.net>]

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1. Correction: I should well know that John did not write the scripts  
for submitting Stata commands--their author is Ben Hulley. See:  
http://dataninja.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/stata-scripts/

2. Michael:  to get started with AppleScript, search for  
"applescript" in the Mac Help. To try a script from John's site,  
download  and save it to the desktop.   Double-click to open & look  
at it (see advice on John's site--you may have to choose your editor  
(BBEdit or TW) from a list). If you have a do file open, you can try  
the script by pushing the Run button.

In BBEdit or TW,, open the Script Folder (Scripts Menu), and move the  
script there. In the BBEdit Window Menu, find the Palattes SubMenu  
and the Scripts item.  There all the scripts in the Scripts Folder  
will be listed. Assign a menu key combination to each and go. You use  
the scripts when a do-file is open in BBEdit or TW.

-Steve



BBEdit Scripts folder, and assign a menu key combination.

-Steve

> On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:41 PM, Steven Samuels wrote:
> hanks for the reference, Dave.   Dataninja is John Gardner. I  
> hadn't looked at the John's site for quite awhile, but your post  
> prompted another visit.
>
> There I discovered scripts that do exactly what mine does, only  
> much faster.  They are the GenericComment and GenericUncomment  
> scripts (http://dataninja.wordpress.com/2006/05/08/textwrangler- 
> uncomment-scripts-for-stata/).  These script work out of the box  
> not only with do-files, but also with R command files and LaTex  
> files. It's a little embarrassing to find them for the first time,  
> since I corresponded with John about using BBEdit with Stata.  I  
> use his scripts for submitting Stata commands (the URL in your  
> post) and use his module for syntax coloring of do-files (http:// 
> dataninja.wordpress.com/2006/02/28/stata-language-module-for- 
> textwrangler/).
>
> The Dataninja site is well worth a visit.
>
> -Steve
>
> On Sep 23, 2008, at 9:16 PM, David Airey wrote:
>
>
>
> > Also see the scripts for the purpose and platform/app combination at:
> >
> > http://dataninja.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/stata-scripts/
> >
> > -Dave
> >
> > On Sep 23, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Steven Samuels 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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