Syntax Highlighting for Text Editing

[Rory Gillis]

Hi everyone,

Would it be possible to emulate IA writer's syntax control feature in BBEdit?

In other words, would it be possible to highlight different parts of a sentence (e.g. verbs vs. nouns) in different colours when I am editing text in BBEdit? Thanks.

[Christopher Waterman]

Hey Rory, 

On Aug 24, 2021, at 5:49 AM, Rory Gillis <rory.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

Would it be possible to emulate IA writer's syntax control feature in BBEdit?

In other words, would it be possible to highlight different parts of a sentence (e.g. verbs vs. nouns) in different colours when I am editing text in BBEdit? Thanks.

I don’t think so? But you might be interest in these options.

https://nathangrigg.com/2012/09/bbedit-grammar-highlighting

http://www.macdrifter.com/2012/01/custom-grammar-checker-in-bbedit.html

I found these links in this articles(blog post).

http://storiesandnovels.com/bbedit/

This is an interesting writing tool/project.

http://proselint.com

I did a down and dirty implementation into BBEdit by putting this script into '/Users/chris/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Scripts/' .

Check Prose.rb

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby

doc = ENV[ 'BB_DOC_PATH' ]

`osascript -e 'tell application "BBEdit" to tell text document 1 to save'`

`which proselint`

if $?.success?

exec "proselint '#{doc}' | bbresults"

else

abort "You might need to install proselint.\nhttp://https://github.com/amperser/proselint/\nhttp://proselint.com\n$ brew install proselint"

end

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I know it isn’t what you are looking for but maybe you will find some of this useful.

— Chris(topher)?