Save BBEdit Preview (with filter) content to file directly?

[Martin Post]

I love BBEdit’s Preview filters. I have built a large set that will call my favorite Markdown convert Pandoc with proper templates, CSS etc. The Preview I get in BBEdit is exactly what I want, but I can’t easily store it as such – there is no “Save” icon in the toolbar, and all items in the Save menu are disabled when the Preview window is in front. The shortest route I could find is:

- open the inspector
- select the HTML (root) tag
- select “Copy” from the context menu
- open a new text window
- paste
- add the doctype
- save.

Doable, but it is seven steps where a simple “Save as…” should suffice.

Just to save time (I’m doing this a lot): Can anyone suggest an easy way to save the BBEdit Preview window content to a file?

(Preview in [Browser] won’t help, as this only applies the default filter for that file type, not the selected Preview filter.)

Thank you.

[Kaveh]

Not quite sure of your requirement, but would "text factory" help?

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[Martin Post]

I only just realized (and that’s really embarrassing for someone who has been using BBEdit since 1997…) that you can take whatever Preview filter (Unix command) you have built into the Text Filters folder as well. So yeah – a simple text factory (or just “Text Filter” + “Save as…” will do the job.

Thank you.

[Kaveh]

Well, if it makes you feel better, I have been using BBEdit since before around the time you did and have never used the Text filters!

Off topic, but I used Qued/M for years before BBEdit. A great program from Nisus that was killed off. :-(

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