Exporting Patterns

[JT]

Hi, could someone tell me if there is a way to export the saved grep
patterns in bbedit? Want to make sure I don't lose all my patterns in
the event I have to do a fresh install.

[Fritz Anderson]

The answer to nearly everything is in

~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit

In this case,

~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Setup/Grep Patterns.xml

It's actually a property list file. If you're using the whizzy Dropbox support, the answer to nearly everything is in

~/Dropbox/Application Support/BBEdit

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[Christopher Stone]

On May 27, 2012, at 20:33, JT wrote:

Hi, could someone tell me if there is a way to export the saved grep patterns in bbedit? Want to make sure I don't lose all my patterns in the event I have to do a fresh install.

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Hey JT,

Having a fresh backup of BBEdit's app-support folder and its prefs is desirable of course, but if you want a nice readable export give this Applescript a try.

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set patternFile to "~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Setup/Grep Patterns.xml"

set patternFile to do shell script "echo " & patternFile

tell application "System Events"

tell property list file patternFile's property list item "SavedGrepPatterns"

set SavedGrepPatterns to value of property list items

end tell

end tell

set patternList to {}

repeat with i in SavedGrepPatterns

tell (contents of i)

set end of patternList to "         Title:  " & its Title

set end of patternList to " SearchPattern:  " & its SearchPattern

set end of patternList to "ReplacePattern:  " & its ReplacePattern

set end of patternList to ""

end tell

end repeat

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to return

set patternList to patternList as text

tell application "BBEdit"

activate

make new document with properties {text:patternList}

end tell

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Best Regards,

Chris