如何在选择中使用 AppleScript 替换 BBEdit？

Question

Is there a way to replace text within a selection using Applescript for BBEdit? I have a replace script, and I'd like to run it for only selected text. I know you can replace in selection using the find menu, but I can't find anything that says it does this in the AppleScript dictionary for BBEdit. Thanks.

Answer 1

To use an application's scripting dictionary, specific commands aren't necessarily declared, just their syntax and options. Usually you can look at a command to see what the parameters are, which also defines the data types that it is expecting - in this case for example, the replace command has a searching in parameter, which can be anything.

The answer is similar to the one to your other topic , you just need to further define where to search. For example, the selection is a property of a window , and a window is a property of a document :

tell application "BBEdit"
   tell front document
      replace "12:" using "{#pl}:" searching in its window's selection
   end tell
end tell