BBEdit delete last word

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#1

I want to delete the last word in a selection in BBEdit 6.1.

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delete last word of contents of selection in window 1
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does not work – “delete” is in the BBEdit dictionary but it gives an error, “last word doesnb’t know about delete” etc.

What does one do to accomplish this, please?

A U S T I N .

#2

This works for me:

tell application “BBEdit”
delete last word of selection of window 1
end tell

Mike

#3

tell app “BBEdit”

set aVar to selection in text window 1
delete last word of aVar

…what am I doing wrong? please

#4

Look at the script below and you´ll see that gets put i aVar when you setit to selection:

tell application “BBEdit”
set aVar to selection in text window 1
return aVar – this is handy for watching what the variable gets set too
end tell

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result: characters 1 thru 39 of text window 1 of application “BBEdit”

Mike