Prevent being prompted to save a BBEdit "on-the-fly" project

[Russel Wallace]

Hi,

I often open a directory as a BBEdit project on the fly (e.g., "bbedit
~/dir"), and sometimes use a filter to view only certain files (e.g.,
"just C++ source files). This works great, but I find it annoying to
be prompted whether or not I want to save the project when trying to
close BBEdit or the project window. Is there a way to disable this?

[Bucky Junior]

Sounds like opening a disk browser (command-option-N) would serve your purposes better than opening as a project.

Projects are kinda new to me and I haven't really explored their potential. The disk browser is older and I don't know if it is filter-able, but you might want to look at that.

Bucky

[Russel Wallace]

Thanks. But the main reason to have it open as a project is to be
able to easily restrict a multi-file Find & Replace. That advantage is
lost when opening as a disk browser.

On Feb 13, 2:39 pm, Bucky Junior <buckyjunior...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Sounds like opening a disk browser (command-option-N) would serve your
> purposes better than opening as a project.
>
> Projects are kinda new to me and I haven't really explored their potential.
> The disk browser is older and I don't know if it is filter-able, but you
> might want to look at that.
>
> Bucky
>

[Rich Siegel]

On 2/17/10 at 12:58 AM, russel....@gmail.com (Russel
Wallace) wrote:

>Thanks. But the main reason to have it open as a project is to be
>able to easily restrict a multi-file Find & Replace. That advantage is
>lost when opening as a disk browser.

Disk browsers and "insta-projects" are just alternative visual
representations of the same thing. If you want to search a
folder that's the root of a disk browser, you can do that; every
open disk browser is listed under the "Disk Browsers" group in
the Multi-File Search window.

What are you really trying to accomplish?

Enjoy,

R.
--
Rich Siegel Bare Bones Software, Inc.
<sie...@barebones.com> <http://www.barebones.com/>

Someday I'll look back on all this and laugh... until they
sedate me.

[Russel Wallace]

Rich,

That clears things up. I guess I usually type "bb <DIRECTORY" from the
terminal, and so I end up with an insta-project instead of a disk
browser. Is there a way to open a BBEdit disk browser on a directory
from the the terminal?

On Feb 18, 6:45 am, Rich Siegel <sie...@barebones.com> wrote:
> On 2/17/10 at 12:58 AM, russel.wall...@gmail.com (Russel

[Rich Siegel]

On 2/20/10 at 6:35 PM, russel....@gmail.com (Russel Wallace) wrote:

> That clears things up. I guess I usually type "bb <DIRECTORY" from the
> terminal, and so I end up with an insta-project instead of a disk
> browser. Is there a way to open a BBEdit disk browser on a directory
> from the the terminal?

Only the expert pref gives control over whether you get a disk
browser or an instaproject. So, you can't make the choice at the
point of invoking the command, but you can change the preference if
you like:

defaults write com.barebones.bbedit Misc:MakeTempProjectForFolderOpen -bool NO