<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>It works well. Many thanks for creating an amazing product!</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Allan Odgaard <<a href="mailto:mailinglist@textmate.org">mailinglist@textmate.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> TextMate users <<a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, 20 September 2013 12:13<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> TextMate users <<a href="mailto:textmate@lists.macromates.com">textmate@lists.macromates.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [TxMt] Re: Macro that uses find & replace<br></div><div><br></div><div class="markdown"><p dir="auto">On 19 Sep 2013, at 15:00, Ross Ahmed wrote:</p><blockquote><p dir="auto">Is it possible to save a macro that uses the find & replace dialogue box?</p></blockquote><p dir="auto">Yes, the button you press in the dialog, while recording a macro, will cause the window’s current state to be saved (in the macro) with the action, as opposed to using something like Edit → Find → Find Next, which only put “findNext:” in the macro (using the current search string).</p><blockquote><p dir="auto">Lets say I want to save a macro that uses find & replace with a regular expression to surround any number with “<strong>". For example, the macro would replace any instances of “123" with **123</strong>. Is this possible?</p></blockquote><ol><li value="1">Edit → Macros → Toggle Recording</li><li value="2">Edit → Find → Find…</li><li value="3">In find dialog use:
<ul><li>Find: <code>\d+</code></li><li>Replace: <code>**$0**</code></li><li>✓ Regular Expression</li></ul></li><li value="4">Click “Replace All”</li><li value="5">Edit → Macros → Toggle Recording</li><li value="6">Edit → Macros → Save Macro…</li></ol><p dir="auto">When you save the macro, you can see how your actions got interpreted and can make minor edits to the property list in the bundle editor.</p></div>
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