Alphagram

Overview

What Alphagram does

Sort the letters in each selected word. It runs locally and handles the selected text without contacting a service.

Example

Action and outcome

Workflow

Use Alphagram

Follow these steps to sort the letters in each selected word with ActionClip.

1. Select the text you want to use.
2. Choose Alphagram from ActionClip.
3. In editable text, ActionClip replaces the selection immediately. In read-only text, it opens the result for review and copying.

Before you add it

Requirements and privacy

• Before you start: No setup required.
• Your selected text: Runs locally in ActionClip’s JavaScript sandbox. Selected text does not leave your Mac.

Inspect before installing

Action script

The script below is included so you can inspect how the action works before downloading it.

function run(selected_text) {
  return selected_text.split(/([\s\r\n]+)/u).map(function (part) {
    if (/^[\s\r\n]+$/u.test(part)) return part;
    var letters = Array.from(part).filter(function (character) { return /\p{L}/u.test(character); });
    letters = letters.map(function (character) { return character.toLocaleUpperCase(); });
    letters.sort(function (left, right) {
      return left.localeCompare(right, undefined, { sensitivity: "base" }) || left.localeCompare(right);
    });
    var index = 0;
    return Array.from(part).map(function (character) {
      return /\p{L}/u.test(character) ? letters[index++] : character;
    }).join("");
  }).join("");
}