Wouldn't it be neat...

Roger Guay irog at mac.com
Sun Aug 21 01:07:21 EDT 2016


Thanks Jacque, Monty, Peter and Mike.

Mike, I tried a similar script in plugin, but I don’t know how to make it interact with the Script Editor. What am I missing?



> On Aug 20, 2016, at 8:29 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I like this idea, so I made a quick and dirty method.
> 
> Made a button with this..
> on mouseUp
>   put the selectedtext into tText
>   if the first char of tText is not quote then put quote before tText
>   if the last char of tText is not quote then put quote after tText
>   put tText into the selectedchunk
> end mouseUp
> 
> Did the extra rigamarole for those times when I get one of the quotes in
> but forgot the other.  If there is already a quote at either end of the
> selection, no quote is added to that end. Should be easy to turn it into a
> plugin, and assign a key combination to do the quote insert. Thanks for the
> idea.
> 
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at appisle.net> wrote:
> 
>> Wouldn't it be better if typing quote when you have more than an insertion
>> point quoted around the selection?
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On 21 Aug 2016, at 12:38 PM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> If one could double-click a word in the script editor and then simply
>> click a button to put it in quotes? Has anyone already done this? Yes, I
>> know I can do Find and Replace, but this would definitely be the cat’s meow!
>> 
>> 
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