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I live off the regex search/replace in BBEdit.
At times I cycle through a history of 8-9 search/replaces to convert a file.
Is there anyway to extract the BBEdit search/replace history?
Best would be to just have the history auto generate a shell script.
I realise I can copy them by hand, but by the time I realise I need it; I’m up to 7-9 rather complex regex blots that would just be annoying to hand copy and paste.
Any ideas warmly welcomed.
Found what I should have looked for from the beginning.
com.barebones.bbedit.plist has an array entry
FindDialog:SearchReplaceHistory
This entry is an array of dicts that includes all settings for the search/replace.
A simple tool can be spun to pull the data and convert in on the fly to a shell script.