BBedit Grep Search: Strip HTML tags from every line
BBEdit’s Grep Search is a very handy tool for cleaning long text files. I recently had to move a form from a webpage into Qualtrics. In the original form there is a list of about
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BBEdit 10.5.x ignores font size changes and other settings.
I was setting up my new computer, and trying to adjust font-sizes and other settings in BBEdit. BBEdit relies on the font-palette for all the font settings, but didn’t seem to notice any changes I
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How to make a diff file on Mac
I had occasion to make a patch file the other day, and since I do this so rarely, it took some time to look up how to do it. So here, in a nutshell is how to use diff on a Mac.
Open terminal.
At the prompt, type
diff -up newfile oldfile
But really the easiest way to get the paths right is to type:
diff -up
…then drag first the new file, then the old file from the desktop onto the terminal window right at the end of the line after -up . It will fill in the paths for you.
Regular expression to match any line that contains a string
I use BBEdit to clean up text files generated by various highlighting and note-taking apps. One application that I particularly like, Skim, exports a list of all the highlights you’ve made in a PDF, each
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