On 10 Aug 2016, at 8:45, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 09 Aug 2016, at 20:59, Allan Odgaard mailinglist@textmate.org
wrote:
We can provide this as a variable but the user can have multiple insertion points, column selections, and place carets beyond end-of-line or a tab character.
Any suggestion as for how to provide this info?
I was thinking a new environment variable. Is it any different than TM_LINE_NUMBER?
The “line number” does not need to care about most of what I mentioned above, ideally it would reflect when there are carets on multiple lines, but as the variable was introduced before this was a feature, we cannot extend the format without breaking existing stuff and instead a new variable was introduced with exact information (`TM_SELECTION`).
The format of `TM_SELECTION` is:
selection = <range> ('&' <range>)* range = <pos> | <normal_range> | <column_range> pos = <line> (':' <column>)? ('+' <offset>)? normal_range = <pos> '-' <pos> column_range = <pos> 'x' <pos> line = [1-9][0-9]* column = [1-9][0-9]* offset = [1-9][0-9]*