Language Guide

About Text Objects 313
APPENDIX B
Scriptable Text Editor Dictionary B
This appendix defines the AppleScript terms understood by the Scriptable Text
Editor, the application used in examples throughout this book. These include
both the names of application objects in the Scriptable Text Editor or its
documents and the names of commands that specify actions that the Scriptable
Text Editor performs. The appendix contains these sections:
■ About Text Objects
■ Scriptable Text Editor Object Class Definitions
■ Scriptable Text Editor Commands
■ Scriptable Text Editor Errors
For general information about definitions provided by scriptable applications,
see “Commands and Objects” on page 17. For definitions of the terms under-
stood by other scriptable applications, see the documentation for those
applications.
About Text Objects B
The Scriptable Text Editor deals mainly with text; therefore, most of its objects
are text objects. The Scriptable Text Editor defines five text object classes:
■ Character
■ Word
■ Paragraph
■ Text
■ Text Item
The following sections describe characteristics that these objects have in
common. To avoid ambiguity, objects that belong to the class Text are always
referred to as “objects of class Text.” Objects that belong to the character,
word, paragraph, text, or text item classes are called “text objects.”
Figure B-0
Listing B-0
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