Fix BBEdit's 'Open Selection' service

Jan 19, '04 11:18:00AM

Contributed by: avanham

I recently bought BBEdit 7 after having tried almost every other serious editor available for the Mac. Mostly, I like it a lot, although it's lack of macros and temporary marks is a little annoying.

What is really annoying, however, is that when I select text in any other application (Safari for instance), then select BBEdit -> Open Selection from that app's Services menu, the OS 9 BBEdit icon appears for about one second in the dock, even though I am using the OSX version. It then vanishes without opening a new document with the text. After some experimentation, I discovered a way to make it work:

  1. Make a backup copy of BBEdit on the Desktop in case you make a mistake
  2. Quit BBEdit if it is running, then select the BBEdit 7 icon
  3. Choose "Show Package Contents" (control-click to see the context menu with this option)
  4. Trash the BBedit icon you now see (it's in the same folder as the "Contents" folder)
  5. Double-click the Contents folder
  6. Trash the entire "MacOSClassic" folder
  7. Empty the trash
I expect this would stop it from loading in the Classic environment, but I never need to edit in the Classic environment anyway.

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