Script to Duplicate Line

[Christopher Stone]

Hey Folks,

For some time I've wanted a feature in BBEdit I've seen in other programming editors, and that is 'duplicate line'.

Of course it's easy enough to Cmd-L, Cmd-C, Cmd-V x 2, but when you do that the contents of the clipboard is compromised.

Frequently I want to copy some text from somewhere, duplicate a line in BBEdit, and paste the text from the clipboard into the duplicated line somewhere.

Or I might want to duplicate a line and do something else with it.

I finally took the time to write a script to duplicate the current line and then select it:

try

  tell application "BBEdit" to tell text of line (startLine of selection) of text document 1

    if (it as text) is not "" then

      set its text to ("" & it & return & it)

      select it

    end if

  end tell

on error eMsg number eNum

  set {c, s} to {return, "------------------------------------------"}

  set e to s & c & "Error: " & eMsg & c & s & c & "eNum: " & eNum & c & s

beep

display dialog e

end try

The script will fail silently if there is no text on the line where the cursor is.

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Best Regards,

Chris

[Charlie Garrison]

Good afternoon,

On 1/02/12 at 10:35 PM -0600, Christopher Stone
<listm...@thestoneforge.com> wrote:

>For some time I've wanted a feature in BBEdit I've seen in
>other programming editors, and that is 'duplicate line'.

Been done already, specifically:

<http://www.entropy.ch/blog/Mac+OS+X/2008/05/25/BBEdit-AppleScript-Improved-Duplicate-Lines-and-Select-Lines.html>

Along with some others:

<http://www.entropy.ch/blog/?query=bbedit>

Or the ones I use (almost, I made some minor changes):

<https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit/msg/d186393e8ab45284>

Charlie

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[Christopher Stone]

On Feb 01, 2012, at 23:56, Charlie Garrison wrote:

Good afternoon,

Not in these parts.  :)

On 1/02/12 at 10:35 PM -0600, Christopher Stone <listm...@thestoneforge.com> wrote:

For some time I've wanted a feature in BBEdit I've seen in other programming editors, and that is 'duplicate line'.

Been done already, specifically:

It looks like there might be some useful stuff there.  Thanks.

Here's my script updated to handle one or more lines.

try

  tell application "BBEdit"

    tell text of lines (get startLine of selection) thru (get endLine of selection) of text document 1

      if (it as text) is not "" and (it as text) is not return then

        set its text to ("" & it & return & it)

        select it

      end if

    end tell

  end tell

on error eMsg number eNum

  set {c, s} to {return, "------------------------------------------"}

  set e to s & c & "Error: " & eMsg & c & s & c & "eNum: " & eNum & c & s

  beep

  display dialog e

end try

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Best Regards,

Chris