Comments on: Wrap Selection In Link in any program on Mac OS 10.6

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:58:24 +0000

Thanks. This was very helpful!

By: RawheaD

RawheaD — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:46:44 +0000

Whoa, that was lightning fast! Thanks!

By: Ian Beck

Ian Beck — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:40:14 +0000

To include target="_blank", replace this line in the original script:

return "" & input & ""

With this:

return "" & input & ""

By: RawheaD

RawheaD — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:35:01 +0000

Hi, just saw this; exactly what I was looking for! :-D Thanks!

One thing that would make it even better for me; I always want to wrap a text in a URL link with the target=”_blank” modifier… how can I add this to the script? (I’m clueless with AppleScript…) Thanks!

By: Brett Terpstra

Brett Terpstra — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:38:14 +0000

Great script. I’ve been using the “Wrap text as link” script out of the Hyperlink Helper bundle in TextMate, with some minor modifications to run it as a shell script in Services. Ruby makes the string handling and link detection much easier :).

I used to use HumaneText to write everything in Markdown and convert on the spot. I’m not sure if those services will work anymore in Snow Leopard, but the new Automator tools would make it easy to replicate. I should look into that…