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Scripting Rectangular Selections in BBEdit 7 Publish Date: Jan. 7, 2003
BBEdit 7 introduces rectangular text selections, but Bare Bones's documentation only explains how to create them in the GUI (by holding down the Option key while make a selection with the mouse). This article explains how to get and set rectangular selections via AppleScript, as well as the unsupported ability to create arbitrary non-contiguous text selections.