applying a text factory via a script

[Nathaniel Irons]

Hello,

To the best my of ability to tell, this should apply the specified text factory to the frontmost BBEdit window (assuming it's a text document):

tell application "BBEdit"
set tf to alias "Macintosh HD:Users:irons:example.textfactory"
apply text factory tf to text document 1 of text window 1 without saving
end tell

However, I find that this script runs without error and has no effect. If I click the Choose button in the text factory and select this same target file, then running the text factory does succeed.

I confirmed that "text window 1" is what I expect it to be via:

tell application "BBEdit" to get URL of text document 1 of text window 1

Am I overlooking something? MacOS 14.5, BBEdit 15.1.1.

Thanks,

Nat

[Nathaniel Irons]

This was apparently one of those "works right after I hit send" questions. I couldn't remember why I specified "alias" when declaring the tf variable, so I removed it, and then the script succeeded. And continued succeeding after I put the alias specifier back. Argh.

Nat

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