Posts tagged ‘bbedit’
Capitalize script for BBEdit
March 4th, 2013 at 11:07 pm by Dr. Drang
I think most of us have a few typos that we just can’t shake. No matter how hard we try, our fingers just keep making the same mistakes over and over. The great classic is “teh,” a typo so common its ironic use is a talisman of internet hipsterism. I don’t type “teh” very often,…
More Engst
January 31st, 2013 at 6:33 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m a little behind on my podcast listening, so I just heard Gabe Weatherhead’s interview with Adam Engst today. It’s very good. In addition to the nominal topic of digital publishing, Adam also gets into the value of banner ads, mailing lists, and knowing your customers. I thought his comments on the success of Marco…
A line-numbering text factory for BBEdit
January 25th, 2013 at 10:39 pm by Dr. Drang
You know how you get into a certain mode of thinking and you miss the obvious? And then, when you finally do see the obvious, you feel stupid and embarrassed? Whenever I want to automate a process, I assume I should write a script. That’s my first thought and, too often, my last. Usually it…
Markdown table scripts for BBEdit
November 4th, 2012 at 1:16 pm by Dr. Drang
The more you customize your editor, the harder it is to switch to another one. This is one of the reasons it took me so long to make the move away from TextMate; in six years of use, I’d accumulated a passel of commands, snippets, and specialty language definitions. The only thing more daunting than…
Photos and links in Markdown
September 25th, 2012 at 12:06 pm by Dr. Drang
I write my reports for work in Markdown and convert them into PDFs through a combination of MultiMarkdown, LaTeX, and some homemade scripts. I described the conversion process in a post last year. Today I’ll describe a new script that helps me do the writing itself in BBEdit. The format of a typical report looks…
Tidying Markdown reference links
September 17th, 2012 at 9:15 pm by Dr. Drang
Oscar Wilde—who would have been great on Twitter—said “I couldn’t help it. I can resist everything except temptation.” That’s my excuse for this post. Several days ago I got an email from a reader, asking if I knew of a script that would tidy up Markdown reference links in a document. She wanted them reordered…
BBEdit Finder toolbar button
September 6th, 2012 at 7:30 am by Dr. Drang
This should come as no surprise to anyone who’s read my recent posts: Time to stop pretending I might use Sublime Text. Bought the @bbedit upgrade (version 8 -> 10). — Dr. Drang (@drdrang) Wed Sep 5 2012 11:14 AM CDT For a while, I was using both TextMate1 and BBEdit, but today I decided the…
Toggle tab stop lines in BBEdit
September 3rd, 2012 at 9:41 am by Dr. Drang
One of the things I missed when I switched from BBEdit to TextMate several years ago was what I called BBEdit’s “pinstripe” setting, it’s ability to show thin vertical lines at every tab stop. This can be quite helpful with long stretches of code, where it’s easy to lose track of how deeply indented you…
Markdown reference links screencast
August 26th, 2012 at 11:03 am by Dr. Drang
I made a short screencast of me using the Markdown reference link scripts I’ve shown in the last two posts. There’s no sound; the narration is typed on screen. A few notes: I show myself choosing the commands from the BBEdit scripts menu, but I always use the keyboard shortcuts when I’m actually writing. Similarly,…
More Markdown reference links in BBEdit
August 25th, 2012 at 6:12 pm by Dr. Drang
My last post described a set of scripts I use to add new reference links to a Markdown document in BBEdit. This one will show the scripts I use to reference links that are already in the document. There are two situations in which I need to reference a link that’s already in the file…
