<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 8, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Patrick James wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>What I used to do with BBEdit 8 and earlier versions was simply to <br>have an AppleScript which opened a new file and saved it in a <br>"temporary" folder named with date and time formatted like this: yyyy- <br>mm-dd-hh-mm-ss<br><br>This meant that I could always create a new "scratch pad" if you like <br>which was saved in that temporary folder and could, if desired, be <br>retrieved, however retrieval usually wasn't very necessary. I didn't <br>want to do the "scratch pad" activities on an unsaved file because if <br>the application crashed then I'd lose it.<br><br>It would be a great exercise for me to learn how to create this bundle <br>myself in TextMate and so if it is not a good time for you to consider <br>such a thing then it will be no problem at all.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Attached is a bundle “Scratch” containing a single command “Scratch from Current Selection / Line”. When editing, you decide you want some scratch, so you make a selection hit ⌃⌥⌘C and off you go. Scratches files are The next step would probably be to add a command to list all previous scratches… you could do this quite easily as a html command with <a href="txmt://">txmt://</a> links to old scratches.<br><br>–Alex</div><div><br></div><div></div></body></html>