In article <jollyroger-E77201.22415805052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jolly
Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <050520081954213508%jerrykindall@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Jerry Kindall <jerrykindall@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > In article <jollyroger-687940.20565905052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jolly
> > Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> > > The point is if you have a collection of files and you want to use
> > > AppleScript to change some text in them, no text editor is needed.
If
> > > you do this in pure AppleScript instead, it's quick as lightning.
You
> > > said you'd try the script I sent you - did you try it? You'll find
it's
> > > faster than any script that uses a BBEdit window to change text.
This is
> > > because writing the AppleScript to control the text editor will only
> > > slow things down - it takes time for the text editor to draw changes
to
> > > the window and so on.
> >
> > I think you've wandered off into the weeds a little. You can't select
> > some text and wrap it in tags using a batch process; by its very
nature
> > the task is interactive.
>
> I'm not the one trying to use a batch process to wrap text in tags. So
> it's not *me* who is "off into the weeds", but the original poster. I'm
> just showing the OP ways to do what he has stated he wants to do. ; )
>
> > The real question is why the original poster is trying to write
scripts
> > to wrap text in HTML tags rather than just using BBEdit's HTML tools,
> > which already do that and more. You can even assign keyboard
shortcuts
> > to them, so you just hit, say, Ctrl-I and it wraps the selected text
in
> > <i> and </i> tags. No script is needed.
>
> Yep. And, as I stated, BBEdit has excellent search and replace
> facilities as well.
I'm not sure where the 'batch' comes in. I'm preparing (e.g.) a
paragraph (amongst many others) and I find a string that needs to be in
italics and that was my question: how to quickly pop tags round a
selection. I'm the one who has to do the selection here, there's no
batch about it, so search-and-replace. Each occurence of italics has to
be selected, by human decision.
I simply asked how to write a script that does that. If as Jerry
Kindall says there's a way to do this with BBEdit's "HTML tools" then
I guess I should examine the manual. Or he can drift OT and tell me
here! Though I now have a script that does it; maybe all I've done is
duplicate a BBEdit function?
I'm really appreciative for the help, but Jolly Roger's Convert script
had many more features than I need. I know what file it is I want,
because I'm working in it, and I don't want to save to a new file, just
pop those tags around a selection, manually. That's it.
Anyway thanks to all who responded, and I've now learned more than
I'd expected.
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