Open with BBEdit
May 1st, 2006
This is a tiny Automator Workflow that opens the current Safari document with BBEdit.
Previously I wrote an AppleScript that did the very same job, however the new document was marked as “new”, thus when one tried to close it, BBEdit would complain and ask if we wanted to save
tell application "Safari"
set cur to document 1
set mySource to source of cur
set myName to name of cur
end tell
tell application "BBEdit"
set x to make new text document with properties ¬
{contents:mySource, name:myName}
activate
end tell
However if we use the automator action “New BBEdit Document”, it offers the possibility to “Set unmodified” (that is to say the new document won’t ask if it has to be saved before closing).
I created a two step Automator workflow. The first step is a slightly modified version of the first part of the script. It is a “Run AppleScript action” containing
on run {input, parameters}
tell application "Safari"
set cur to document 1
set mySource to source of cur
set myName to name of cur
end tell
return mySource
end run
The second step is the “New BBEdit Document” action.
You can download the workflow here. I sugest to put it in the script menu.
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