

Jonathan Marc Bearak has some similar tips on his R & BBEdit integration page. The background and text color comes courtesy of one of BBEdit’s new color schemes, meant to be easy on the eyes. Set theText to line (get startLine of selection) of front window as string
Bbedit color schemes install#
Set theText to (selection of front window as string) A package is a collection of the sort of things you’d place into BBEdit’s application support folder to extend BBEdit, such as clippings, scripts, language modules, and text filters but makes it easier to install such items when they are all related to a single type of task, rather than having to manually install and manage items. Set theFile to (file of document of front window as string)Ĭmd "print(" & quote & "Error: BBEdit file is not saved" & quote & ")"Ĭmd "source(" & quote & theFilePath & quote & ")"
Bbedit color schemes code#
Open up Applescript Editor and paste these chunks of code into two separate files. I use Command-R to run the file, and Command-Option-R to run the line.

This is a representation of the default settings of the colors in BBEdit reversed and tweaked slightly for optimization.

You can then go to Window -> Palettes -> Scripts and assign some shortcut keys to these scripts. If you reverse the screen colors on your monitor on long days of coding it is much easier on the eyes. Save these scripts into your “~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Scripts/” folder. The second script will run the entire file in R. The first script will run the current selection (or line if there is no selection) in R. Two AppleScripts based on a post on an R mailing list. Here are two ways of integrating R with BBEdit.ĭownload the R syntax colouring file and move it to your “~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Language Modules/” folder. Luckily, with minimal effort you can make them very happy bedfellows. Color schemes for the BBEdit text/code editor.
Bbedit color schemes generator#
Together they are the ultimate combination. A unique color theme generator for Vim, VSCode, Atom, and Sublime. The Mac text editor BBEdit is also very powerful. The statistical programming environment R is very powerful. Set shellScript to "bbcolors -load " & quote & colourFileName & quote Set bbOpen to (name of processes) contains "BBEdit" When I try changing the language to something else and then changing back to markdown, I get varying results - different color schemes that I sometimes can and sometimes cant reproduce. You can, however, download John’s colour schemes and copy them to your “~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Color Schemes/” folder and then load them from the Text Colors section of BBEdit’s preferences. For instance in a document where I have selected the Markdown color scheme, text that is marked as a Header does not show up as a Custom blue (the default). This script is no longer necessary with BBEdit 10. An old script that I used to change the colour scheme of BBEdit, based on John Gruber’s BBColors tool.
