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October 16, 2011 04:33
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Intelligently rename active document in BBEdit.
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| (* | |
| File: | |
| Rename Active Document.scpt | |
| Abstract: | |
| This script will intelligently rename the active document in BBEdit. | |
| Version: | |
| 1.1 | |
| Author: | |
| John Gruber <http://daringfireball.net/> | |
| Modified By: | |
| Ben Spaulding <http://benspaulding.us/> | |
| Details: | |
| For more information, see the following: | |
| - http://daringfireball.net/2004/10/rename_active_document | |
| - BBEdit User Manual | |
| *) | |
| tell application "BBEdit" | |
| activate | |
| set old_name to name of text window 1 | |
| set dialog_result to display dialog ¬ | |
| "Rename active document:" default answer (old_name) ¬ | |
| buttons {"Cancel", "Rename"} default button 2 ¬ | |
| with icon note | |
| if button returned of dialog_result = "Rename" then | |
| set new_name to text returned of dialog_result | |
| set d to active document of text window 1 | |
| if (d's on disk) then | |
| set the_file to d's file | |
| tell application "Finder" | |
| -- I was getting an error from Finder, and the following alias | |
| -- fixed it. I wish I fully understood why. | |
| set the_file to the_file as alias | |
| set name of the_file to new_name | |
| end tell | |
| else -- it's a document that has never been saved | |
| set name of d to new_name | |
| end if | |
| end if | |
| end tell |
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