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[Feature Request] AppleScript as a supported language
It would be nice to have AppleScript as an available language for syntax highlighting.
AppleScript is a special beast, as the files usually are not plain text encoded so they need a convert on load and save. Also the built in apple script editor uses a lot of runtime information which currently is not available to SubEthaEdit.
Just a simple highlighting mode for text based Apple Script could be done though, if that would be helpful.
What is your specific use case here?
yup, I had thought about the runtime info and realized that's kind of a pain to make request for the ability to do that.
I have noticed though if you save an AppleScript with file extension of. ".applescript" it seems to remove the encoding. And some of the plain text editors I have tried can actually manage that better. And FastScripts (which is what I use for running production scripts) intelligently understands what kind of script whether it be and ".scpt" or ".applescript" file extension.