(AppleScript is just a language wrapped around Apple event communication.) Most notably, TextWrangler now works with Michael Tsai’s very cool BBAutoComplete, which he just updated to version 1.2.īBAutoComplete is just what it sounds like - an auto-completion tool for BBEdit. Scriptability also opens up TextWrangler to third-party Apple event communication. TextWrangler’s scriptability isn’t at all crippled - every TextWrangler feature that is scriptable in BBEdit is equally scriptable in TextWrangler. The only BBEdit scripts that won’t work in TextWrangler are those which pertain to BBEdit-only features, most notably the HTML tools. For example, almost all the BBEdit AppleScripts I post here at Daring Fireball now work in TextWrangler as well, simply by changing: Most obviously, you can simply take advantage of scripts written by others. Using a scriptable text editor can be incredibly useful - even if you never write a single script yourself. Many people mistakenly felt that TextWrangler 1.0 was little more than a renamed commercial version of the free BBEdit Lite the addition of full scriptability clearly moves TextWrangler’s capabilities much closer to BBEdit’s. The addition of AppleScript support is huge. This is now: TextWrangler 1.5 includes full support for AppleScript, and includes syntax coloring for numerous additional programming languages, most notably Perl, Python, Java, and TeX. Support for Perl and Unix shell scripting.įile filters for multi-file search-and-replace. When I wrote about TextWrangler 1.0, this was my summary of what BBEdit offered beyond TextWrangler:ĪppleScript support TextWrangler has no scripting dictionary. Text Editing News Wednesday, 13 August 2003 Scriptable TextWranglerīare Bones yesterday released version 1.5 of TextWrangler, the $49 younger sibling of BBEdit.
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