With grep being used, you can use some regular expression syntax as well to get better matches to choose from. It's defined somewhat clumsily, mostly letters, numbers, and a few special characters (-_/ *.~), but to make it a little more international friendly it also allows for characters with a Unicode value greater than 127. The script defines what characters can be used in a file name in order to determine the file path in front of the cursor. A relative path won't work because 'relative to what?' cannot be answered. If the file you're working in has never been saved (new file), the script won't be able to run unless you're using an absolute path. One case for this is when you give a directory that doesn't exist. If the inputs somehow mess up that syntax, you'll get an error describing why it couldn't complete. The script builds a command with the syntax of: ls -A1 'dir' | grep ^'partial name'. If no matches are found, there will be a system beep. Press escape or hit the Cancel button to exit the script.Įrrors can occur for a couple reasons. The list selection defaults to the first option. Example Usageīelow is a screen shot from when multiple matches are found for the given partial file path. It works for both relative and absolute paths. If more than one match is found, it will present a dialog with a list of matches that you can choose from. If there's a unique match, it will just fill in the name. This AppleScript for BBEdit and TextWrangler allows you to complete a partial file name path, like when you hit the tab key on the command line. Auto-Complete File Name: BBEdit / TextWranglerĪnnouncement page for version 2.0 Description
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