Easiest way to replace all matches

[TJ Luoma]

Assume a 'regular' text file.

I'd like to be able to select a word, press a key, and have all instances of that word be surrounded by {brackets}.

For this example,  the words would all be names so you would not need worry about "What if the word is {and} but the word "br{and}s" also exists?

I could hack this together with Keyboard Maestro but I wondered if there was a more native way to accomplish this

Thanks for your help!

~ Tj

[Christopher Stone]

On Oct 21, 2021, at 06:47, TJ Luoma <luo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Assume a 'regular' text file.

I'd like to be able to select a word, press a key, and have all instances of that word be surrounded by {brackets}.

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Hey Tj,

That's not overly difficult using a bit of AppleScript.

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Take Care,

Chris

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# Auth: Christopher Stone <script...@thestoneforge.com>

# dCre: 2021/10/21 10:33

# dMod: 2021/10/21 10:33 

# Appl: BBEdit

# Task: Enclose All Instances of the Selected Word with Curly Braces.

# Libs: None

# Osax: None

# Tags: @Applescript, @Script, @BBEdit, @Enclose,@Instances, @Selected, @Word, @Curly, @Braces

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tell application "BBEdit"

    tell front text window's text

        set theWord to the selection as text

        set rePattern to "\\b" & theWord & "\\b"

        replace rePattern using "\\{&\\}" options {search mode:grep, case sensitive:false, starting at top:true}

    end tell

end tell

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[TJ Luoma]

> That's not overly difficult using a bit of AppleScript.

Well, not for you, maybe!

Thanks! That's probably something simple enough that I can build on it, too!

TJ

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[John Delacour]

On 21 Oct 2021, at 12:47, TJ Luoma <luo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'd like to be able to select a word, press a key, and have all instances of that word be surrounded by {brackets}.... I wondered if there was a more native way to accomplish this

#!/usr/bin/perl

while (<>) {

s~myword~{$&}~ig;

print;

} #END

The script

• reads the document line by line,

• surrounds all (~g) occurrences of "myword" (case-insensitive ~i) with curly brackets,

• prints the line.

Instructions:

Save the script in the Text Filters folder as ***.pl 

( Terminal:— cd; open Library/Application\ Support/BBedit/Text* )

Open the palette:  Menu: Window::Palettes::Text Filters

Select the script and set an optional keyboard shortcut

With your document frontmost, run the script

You can undo the action of the UNIX filter but…

… to see the result without altering the doc, run the script from the Scripts folder+palette

JD