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AppleScript to preview the current file in TextWranger in Chrome.
-- Based on Sam Dutton's script (http://goo.gl/27XlZ)
-- which was based on Mike Piontek's script (http://goo.gl/SBkkL)
-- This is Chrome specific. See https://gist.github.com/3232318 for a Safari Script
tell application "TextWrangler" to set theFile to file of document 1
tell application "TextWrangler" to save document 1
set appleScriptPath to theFile as text
set currentURL to POSIX path of appleScriptPath
set currentURL1 to POSIX path of appleScriptPath
set currentURL to ("file://" & currentURL)
-- this script will get the <title> tag from the web page for comparison below.
set theTitle to do shell script "grep -i '<title>' " & currentURL1 & "| sed -e 's#<[^>]*>##g' | sed 's/^[ ]*//;s/[ ]*$//'"
tell application "Google Chrome"
activate
-- using the <title> tag above, we compare to the current open tab. If they are equal, replace the contents, otherwise, open a new tab.
if (exists window 1) and (title of active tab of window 1 is theTitle) then
tell window 1 to set URL of active tab to currentURL
else
open location currentURL
end if
end tell
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