Bringing the "Unix Script Output" log to the front automatically.

[Philip Sharman]

Is there a way to bring the "Unix Script Output" log window to the front automatically when I ran a script?

(I thought BBEdit did so, but now I find that it does not.  I'm not sure if something changed or I'm misremembering.)

Thanks.

[David Wagner]

Noticed the same thing. Run a script and the log would come up. Now have to find to bring to the front... 

Wags ;)

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[jj]

As of BBEdit version 13.5.2 (415056, 64-bit Intel, sandboxed), I observe a similar behavior.

When a #! script is executed, if the "Unix Script Output.log" window is not open, BBEdit will open it and bring it to the front.

But if the  "Unix Script Output.log" window was already open, BBEdit won't bring it to the front.

Might be related to this change.

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Version 13.2 (415007)   (2020-08-18)

Additions

---------

o   (none in this build)

Changes

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  • [NFR] [DOC] Made a change to #! script output behavior as

    follows: if a script produces no output, the log will so note.

    However, if the log is *not* open, BBEdit will not open it. If

    the log *is* open, BBEdit will update the log's window, but will

    not bring it to the front.

...

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A (damn slow) workaround is to use an osascript call at the end of your script to force BBEdit to bring the window to the front:

#!/bin/bash

ls -al . ;

/usr/bin/osascript <<END

tell application "BBEdit" 

    try

        tell window "Unix Script Output.log"

            activate

        end tell

    end try

 end tell

 END

 

Best regard.

Jean Jourdain