Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:00 AM.

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system.verbs.apps.BBEdit.examples.rePrefixSelection

on rePrefixSelection() {
	<<Revisions:
		<<11/14/95 ECT: reverted to old grep patterns since glitch has been fixed
		<<11/07/95 ECT: changed selStar & selEnd to new window properties
		<<11/01/95 ECT: changed grep patterns to avert replace() glitch
		<<10/30/95 ECT: changed multiple calls to local() to outline
		<<08/19/95 ECT: ported from AppleScript to UserTalk
	with objectModel, BBEdit, eventInfo {
		local {
			selStart = window[1].selectionStartLine;
			selEnd = window[1].selectionEndLine};
		if (selStart != selEnd) {
			<<Remove all the prefix ">"'s first, and rewrap
			replace(everyOccurrence, "^>", "", selectionOnly:true);
			hardWrap(selectionOnly:true);
			<<Prefix new rewrapped selection with ">"
			replace(everyOccurrence, "^", ">", selectionOnly:true, grep:true)}
		else {
			dialog.notify("Select the text to rework first.");
			bringToFront()}}};
rePrefixSelection()

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.