One teeny little thing that bugs me about BBEdit is the way that all new document windows open on the far left of the screen. While BBEdit’s preferences do allow a certain amount of control over the window size, there’s no built-in way to customize its position.
Off I went a-searching, and some digging around in the BBEdit-Talk mailing list archives unearthed the tip I needed.
Maarten Sneep wrote a script that re-sizes all new BBEdit windows to your chosen size and screen position. I like mine to be almost square and very nearly in the center of the screen, so the crucial co-ordinates line in my version reads as:
set bounds of text window 1 to {273, 44, 891, 618} But as Maarten’s tip points out, you can use the Record function in Script Editor while re-sizing a BBEdit window to your taste, then simply use the co-ordinates that show up in the recorded script.
nice hint. i fumble with window resizing in BBEdit constantly. i modified the script to handle the "New Window" command and to cascade the new window if others are present: http://www.unevolution.com/notes/note.php?id=10035
those listening might also be interested in saving your "Workspace" between sessions. here's another script i modified to address the issue:
http://www.unevolution.com/notes/note.php?id=10028
I'm sure you can use the ancient (System 7 era) concept of Stationary to do this too, somehow, but I'm not sure how.
How's that for a vague comment?