One-off Text Filtering in BBEdit
Although I’m far from a Unix wizard, I do find myself thinking of transformations in terms of command-line utilities rather than Text Factory actions. If only BBEdit would let me just type out a pipeline to run the selected text through. Surprisingly, it’s not all that hard to give it that ability.
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As you can see, most of Any Filter is an AppleScript command that displays a dialog box asking for and collecting the command. The final line is just the execution of that command. Because this is saved as a Text Filter, BBEdit knows to feed it the selected text (or the entire current document) and replace that text with Any Filter’s output.
