G'day Doug,

On Jan 8, 1:04 am, Doug McNutt <[email protected]> wrote:

> At 18:47 -0800 1/6/10, Ben wrote:

> >Is there a way to create a key-stroke that will take the current line
> >(or selection) and dump it into a nominated window.

> Execute Text is a service I found somewhere long ago.  Have a look at 
> BBEdit's BBEdit menu and see if there is a usable service already provided by 
> Apple.

Not that I can see, but I guess the concept opens up some
possibilities. I found a copy as plain text service, I just need to
work out how to

a) select the whole line if nothing is selected, and
b) get it to send to a destination and paste.


> Ann then you can use BBEdit worksheets but perhaps not if you need to use the 
> file as an input source to SQL later. That capability died with BBEdit 5 or 
> so when Bare Bones changed the format of worksheets from simple TEXT to XML.
>
> The worksheet method allows retention of shell variables - like PWD - The 
> service concept will spawn a new shell that is ignorant of earlier settings. 
> Applescript will do the same thing while insisting that you use sh instead of 
> $SHELL.

Hmm - interesting, but not quite what I was after - I want to be able
to send commands to (for instance) the R console or the psql
program...

thanks for your input

cheers

Ben
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