Hi
I'm not as proficient with text editors as many on this list.
BBEdit has a very handy thing called "Includes"
The easiest way for me to describe them is simply to copy and paste from BBEdit help:
An include file, or just an "include," is a special form of placeholder whose substitution happens to be the contents of another file. If you have used C or certain other programming languages, you may already be familiar with the concept. Using includes, you can reuse standard bits of text content or HTML markup in several templates or clippings entries without having to revise all of those individual files whenever you revise the included text. Apologies for not only mentioning BBEdit but pasting in something from the help :)
The reason I want to use includes like this now is that I have quite a large web-site which uses PHP includes a lot.
I have been asked to put this web-site on a CD and of course the problem is that a CD doesn't have any PHP.
So, as you have probably guessed, I need to convert the web-site changing all the PHP includes into the actual chunks of HTML in the files supplying those PHP includes.
I know that with BBEdit I would do a find/replace changing the PHP includes in BBEdit includes and do it that way.
However I haven't used BBEdit for quite a while now because I tend always to use TextMate now of course.
I'm wondering if I can do this in TextMate?
I've been doing searches through the excellent "TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac" with "includes" and "placeholders" but it doesn't turn up a description of something similar.
Thank you for any assistance you can give.
Patrick