On May 16, 2006, at 9:54 PM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

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Writing a Markdown document in Textmate

I understand the basic principals of markdown, but typing the code (albeit, simple) seems burdensome. Is it possible to:

• highlight selected items and add a "*" (bullet) at the

beginning of the list?

If I undestand correctly, you want to go from:

one two three

to

• one
• two
• three

In that case, select the first two lines, press option followed by star and space. Or better, create a command with code the single line:

sed 's/(.*)/* \1/'

with input set to selected text, fall-back line, and output set to replace selected text. With this command, you'll want to select all three lines.

There's also the excellent Outlines bundle. Select those lines and hit Ctrl+Cmd+O (letter o) and select "Tabs to Markdown". In this case, it will simply add '* ' in front of each line.