<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>Hi all</div><div><br></div><div>I don’t think I captured what I was actually after in my question – my mistake. Heres another try:</div><div><br></div><div>I often have a list of birds like this</div><div><br></div><div>Bar-tailed Godwit</div><div>Mallard</div><div>Redshank</div><div>Ringed Plover</div><div>Turnstone</div><div><br></div><div>I need to convert them into their abbreviated codes, so the list needs to become:</div><div><br></div><div><div>BA</div><div>MA</div><div>RK</div><div>RP</div><div>TT </div></div><div><br></div><div>My current strategy is to just manually replace each bird name with their code. I was hoping to make 5 selections (multiple cursors, one cursor for each bird name), and convert them to their codes in one keystroke. Does this sound possible?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div>Ross</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></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> Stéphane THIL <<a href="mailto:stephane.thil@univ-perp.fr">stephane.thil@univ-perp.fr</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> Wednesday, 12 March 2014 08:26<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: Select word and replace with different word<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hi,</div>The easiest way (afaik) is probably to create a snippet that replaces ‘rspb’ with 'Royal Society for Protection of Birds’ using a tab trigger.<div>S.<br><div><br><div><div>On 11 Mar 2014, at 20:13, Gildas Hamel <<a href="mailto:gweltaz@ucsc.edu">gweltaz@ucsc.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">If this is in LaTeX, you can also edit the configuration file (LaTeX bundle > Edit Configuration File) and add a line:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace">
rspb = 'Royal Society for Protection of Birds';</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'courier new',monospace"><div class="gmail_default">or even</div><div class="gmail_default"> rs = 'Royal Society for Protection of Birds';</div><div class="gmail_default">and in your text, use Control-Shift-period after typing rs.</div><div class="gmail_default">--gildas</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Ross Ahmed <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rossahmed@googlemail.com" target="_blank">rossahmed@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div>Lets say I have this abbreviation:</div><div><br></div><div>RSPB</div><div><br></div><div>Can I make a command which, when I select “RSPB” and hit a keyboard shortcut, will replace “RSPB” with “Royal Society for Protection of Birds”?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks </div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Ross</font></span></div><br><br>
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