[TxMt] Balance Tags/Blocks

[Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient)]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 2:30 PM, David Kurtz wrote:

> I'm taking a fresh look at TM and using it 60/40 with BBEdit... one  
> of the things I'm missing is a "balance tags" or "balance blocks"  
> feature.
>
> e.g. if I'm between two tags, I hit the key command I've assigned,  
> cmd-opt-B, and everything between the two current HTML tags gets  
> selected. If I press it again, everything within the parent tag  
> gets selected, and so on. Is this something hidden in one of the TM  
> bundles? I really miss this whenever I move over to TM.
>
> Similarly, I like being able to double click on opening braces,  
> parens, brackets, and selecting their contents. I know there's the  
> code collapsing, but it's different and doesn't seem so universally  
> applicable. e.g. object literals in Javascript aren't collapsable  
> in TM. In BBedit they're both collapsable and the bracket-double- 
> clicking works.
>
> Any suggestions?

Cannot currently be done.

But you can get pretty close by using a combination of the select  
scope built-in command and my Balance Jr commands.
Balance Jr is available in the Experimental bundle in the textmate  
subversion repo.

http://macromates.com/wiki/Main/SubversionCheckout

I highly recommend you bind home and end to balance jr forward and  
balance jr backward.
Enjoy

thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors