New Disk Browser for Window

Summary: Makes a new disk browser showing the current window’s parent folder.
Requires: BBEdit
Suggested Key Binding: Command-Control-B
Last Modified: 2019-10-02

Description

This script makes a new disk browser showing the current window’s parent folder. This is useful to quickly open nearby files. I prefer it to using Open File by Name because the graphical type-ahead lets me type only a few letters and still be sure which file will open.

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Script

tell application

 "BBEdit"

set _file to file of text document

end tell

tell application

 "Finder"

set _parent to container of (_file as file

set _parentAlias to _parent as alias

set _posixPath to _parentAlias's POSIX path

do shell script "bbedit " & _posixPath's quoted form

end tell