On Sep 8, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Patrick James wrote:
What I used to do with BBEdit 8 and earlier versions was simply to have an AppleScript which opened a new file and saved it in a "temporary" folder named with date and time formatted like this: yyyy- mm-dd-hh-mm-ss
This meant that I could always create a new "scratch pad" if you like which was saved in that temporary folder and could, if desired, be retrieved, however retrieval usually wasn't very necessary. I didn't want to do the "scratch pad" activities on an unsaved file because if the application crashed then I'd lose it.
It would be a great exercise for me to learn how to create this bundle myself in TextMate and so if it is not a good time for you to consider such a thing then it will be no problem at all.
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 txmt:// links to old scratches.
–Alex