Constantinos, Thanks for the script, at first test it doesnt work but I'll dig into it to figure out a way to make it work. Thanks again.... <div>On 6/2/07, Constantinos Neophytou ♎ <<a href="mailto:jaguarcy@gmail.com">jaguarcy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I think this could probably be accomplished with a simple python (or ruby) script that took the line as input, then did print "%-100s" % thetext or something like that and replaced the line? (or place it in a macro that first selects the line, and the command replaces the selection...) As for the original question, woulnd't it be failry straight forward to have something like: sometext⇥more text somemoretext⇥and a bit more whateverelse⇥some more then opt-shift-up, and parse the selection through a small python script that splits each line on the tab character, finds the longest first half of a line, and aligns everything using spaces... in fact, this seems to work as a command (takes the first tab it finds in every line, and adds enough spaces before it so that all the first tabs in each line align): Command Input: Selected Text or Nothing Output: Replace Selected Text Activation: Key Equivalent (i set it to cmd-opt-shift-r) Command: #!/usr/bin/env python import os selectedText = '' splitMarker = "\t" joinMarker = "\t" if 'TM_SELECTED_TEXT' in os.environ: selectedText = os.environ['TM_SELECTED_TEXT'] lines = selectedText.splitlines() length = 0 for i in range(len(lines)): sec = lines[i].split(splitMarker) length = max(length, len(sec[0])) l = "%%-%ds" % length for j in range(len(lines)): sec = lines[j].split(splitMarker) sec[0] = l % sec[0] print joinMarker.join(sec) This is very rough, i wrote it while writing this email, but it seems to work. Using it in the above proposed method also seems to work (i.e. write all the data in a column block, have the first tab where you want everything to align, opt-shift-up, opt-cmd-shift-R) Note instead of the first tab, the align 'marker' can be anything... On Jun 2, 2007, at 12:38 PM, Piero D''Ancona wrote: > Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1@...> writes: > >> >> On 2. Jun 2007, at 06:54, Helmut Granda wrote: >> >>> for example is it possible to write a snippet to do something >>> like... >>> >>> text (move to column 100)moreText >>> >>> does that makes sense? sort of tabbing but using column numbers >>> instead (margins?) >> >> Other than actually inserting the required number of spaces, no, >> there is no such shortcut. >> >> > > If the text to be inserted is always the same, you can record > a macro which inserts some text, moves to the right (press > right arrow 100 times) then inserts some more text... > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > For new threads USE THIS: <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> > (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) > <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate"> http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</a> -- What's your Dream? Make it happen with <a href="http://www.dostpost.com">www.dostpost.com</a> ______________________________________________________________________ For new threads USE THIS: <a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a> (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) <a href="http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate"> http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate</a> </blockquote></div>