You can create individual script files in the Scripts menu and assign them key
equivalents. Using Script Editor save this simple script into the user
Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Scripts folder and then open Preferences >
Menus & Shortcuts in BBEdit and you can assign it a shortcut. This script would
replace all runs of white space with single spaces in the front window.
tell application "BBEdit"
replace "\\s+" using " " searching in first text of front document
options {search mode:grep, wrap around:true}
end tell
Repeat with as many find/replace patterns as you need.
An easy way to match BBEdit's options is to hit Record in Script Editor, do the
search/replace you want and then model your script on what was recorded.
[fletcher]
> On Jan 11, 2017, at 6:38 AM, BenJ <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I use BBEdit's regexp search patterns a lot for text processing, and have a
> routine set of custom regexp patterns I use, and switch between, a lot.
>
> However, when processing text, it's a bit of a pain having to go to the
> search window, click the G button, then choose the next pattern just to use
> it to process a text item. Far too much switching with the mouse and menu
> hunting etc.
>
> What I'd really like to do is to basically map a bunch of my search pattern
> presets to keyboard shortcuts, much as you can do for clippings or text
> filters in their own palette windows.
>
> I don't think there's currently any way to do this in BBEdit, and as
> recalling patterns seems to be only done by selecting them from the pattern
> menu in the search window, it doesn't lend itself to automating.
>
> Edit: having a poke around at the scripting possibilities, it seems the "Sort
> lines using saved grep" script example shows a way of scripting the recall of
> grep presets, and as you can assign scripts to hotkeys, that would seem the
> way to go at this time. (Although a "Patterns" palette window would be a
> nicer and more comfortable way of doing this...)
>
> Any other options/ideas?
>
> Cheers! (at least the process of writing this post has brought forth some
> more options to explore).
>
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