/sublime-applescript

AppleScript command completions, build system and useful snippets. Supports editing binary scripts

Primary LanguagePythonMIT LicenseMIT

AppleScript Extensions for Sublime Text

License Version Package Control

This Sublime Text package adds completions, snippets and build tools for AppleScript (including binary files) and JavaScript for Automation (JXA).

Screenshot

Screenshot of AppleScript in Sublime Text with Hopscotch color scheme

Installation

Package Control

  1. Make sure you already have Package Control installed
  2. Choose “Install Package” from the Command Palette (Super+Shift+p)
  3. Select “AppleScript Extensions”” and press Enter

Using Git

  1. Change to your Sublime Text Packages directory
  2. Clone repository git clone https://github.com/idleberg/sublime-applescript.git 'AppleScript Extensions'

Manual installation

  1. Download the latest stable release
  2. Unzip the archive to your Sublime Text Packages directory

Usage

Completions

Many commands can simply be triggered by completing a standard AppleScript command. Commands such as try, if, repeat, or set will create a code block. Press Tab to jump between input-fields.

Snippets

There are several snippets included to generate license-texts enclosed in a comment. To trigger these, try the license command with license names as parameter. You could, for example, use license:mit to add an MIT License text, or license:gpl2 for the GNU General Public License in version 2.0. Press Tab to jump between input-fields.

You can directly address several macOS applications to have them perform some action. For instance you can scaffold a script using Mail:Send message, telling Mail to send a message. You can use Tab to jump between recipient, subject and message fields. Other examples would be System Preferences:Security to open the according panel in System Preferences, or iTunes:Open file to play a piece of music in iTunes.

More examples:

  • Calendar:Add event
  • Finder:Open location
  • OS:Notification Message
  • Safari:Open location
  • Terminal:Run shell script

Build System

Build systems are available on macOS to compile or run scripts. Use the default shortcut ⌘+B to build or Shift+⌘+B to select a build system variant.

Note: When editing binary AppleScripts decompiled by this package, you can simply save the file for it to be re-compiled. Building it will lead to undesired results.

License

This work is licensed under the The MIT License.