Extracting scripts from forum posts

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#46

Cool! WAY COOL! Way, way cool!

#47

UPDATE: Some problems surfaced over the weekend with code blocks containing " characters. These issues should now be resolved.

#48

I’ve noticed that sometimes when I post appleScripts the script is formatted in it’s own box, but the “Open in Script Debugger” link is missing.

Is there some trick to get the formatting and the link?

#49

Hey Ed,

The best way is to use a named-code-block like this:

```applescript
tell application "Finder"
   set finderSelectionList to selection as alias list
end tell
```

I believe Mark has set the default for the 3-backtick fence to AppleScript, but it’s better to be explicit in my opinion.

Discourse displays tabs pretty wide, so I have a script that takes an AppleScript on the clipboard and changes each leading tab into 3 spaces for a more comfortably compact display. The formatting script then brackets the object-script with the AppleScript-code-fence and pastes it into Safari.

I have the script bound to a keyboard shortcut using Keyboard Maestro, and have variants for Mail and BBEdit.

It saves me a lot of time and effort.

-Chris

#50

Thanks, Chris, that did the trick!