Sun, 11 Jun 2006
TextWrangler Scripts
TextWrangler is a free text editor for the Macintosh. It's what I use to wite for this weblog. It has one feature I haven't exploited until now: you can write scripts to modify text in the editor. You simply copy the script to the proper directory, mark the text you want changed, and select the script from the menu. The script reads the text from standard input and writes the result to standard output. This is the standard Unix way of doing things, so it's easy to use any of the standard scripting languages. Already I've dusted off my script to convert my own markup to html. I'm thinking about a Wylie to Tibetan Unicode script. More about that sometime later.
