Align comment fields in old assembly sources

[Lloyd Ollmann]

I wish to process some old, 1985, 68K assembler files to align the comment fields to a given column can anyone make a recommendation on how I might do so using BBEdit?

In this case the comment character is ';'

[Steve deRosier]

Honestly, I'd probably pop that into Claude or ChatGPT and have it do it for me.  And I'd most likely use the chat worksheet feature of BBEdit to do it.  Just saying what I'd do, there's other ways to do it.

- Steve

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM Lloyd Ollmann <lloydo...@gmail.com> wrote:

I wish to process some old, 1985, 68K assembler files to align the comment fields to a given column can anyone make a recommendation on how I might do so using BBEdit?

In this case the comment character is ';'

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[GP]

Might be overkill for your needs but there is a 68K assembly language Language Server Protocol module (m68k-lsp https://github.com/grahambates/m68k-lsp) that does code formatting amongst other things. If you don't want to go to the trouble of getting it working with BBEdit for merely tidying up comments in 68K assembler files, there's a "Motorola 68000 Assembly" Visual Studio Code extension (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=gigabates.m68k-lsp) that already has the integration with an LSP supporting code editor type application figured out; albeit the editor is VSC instead of BBEdit.

[Lloyd D. Ollmannm Jr,]

In MPW we could use the ® operator to tag/capture a found expression and use the tag in the replacement expression allowing reordering.

> On Mar 24, 2025, at 12:12, Lloyd Ollmann <lloydo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wish to process some old, 1985, 68K assembler files to align the comment fields to a given column can anyone make a recommendation on how I might do so using BBEdit?
>
> In this case the comment character is ';'
>

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