I've been using BBEdit in conjunction to develop for a while now. I use BBEdit frequently for its find and replace. Sometimes, I want to remove all line endings and tabs from a selection of text, which I have easily done with a regex find in BBEdit since its find and replace is scriptable. Coda has the ability to perform grep find and replace, but I don't think that it is scriptable. So, I have approached this from two ways: 1) See if I can do a grep find and replace in Coda with Applescript (which I don't think is possible), or 2) Pass my text to the command line and do it that way. Unless someone has an example of the former, this question will be related to doing it via the command line.
I'm using one of Coda's built in scripts as a template in combination with some other similar threads about this issue. I am NOT an Applescript or a regex expert, so please go easy on me if this is a simple mistake.
The text that I am inputing can vary wildly, but it is typically HTML and/or JS code.
This script will run, but nothing happens. Any ideas?
-- script settings
on CodaScriptSettings()
return {displayName:"Remove Line Endings", inContextMenu:"yes"}
end CodaScriptSettings
-- actual script
tell application "Coda"
try
tell current split of front document
if selected text is not equal to "" then
set someText to selected text
else
set someText to contents
end if
end tell
on error
beep
return
end try
end tell
set shellscriptString to "echo " & quoted form of someText & "|sed \"s/[\\t\\r\\n\\x]+/ /g\"" as string
set shellresult to do shell script shellscriptString without altering line endings
tell application "Coda"
try
tell current split of document 1
if selected text is not equal to "" then
set selected text to shellresult
else
set contents to shellresult
end if
end tell
on error
beep
end try
end tell
Try this:
set shellscriptString to "echo " & quoted form of someText & "|tr -d '\\\t\\r\\n\\x'" as string