I am a new user (purchased yesterday) of TextMate. In the past, I used

a great program on Windows called Advanced Find and Replace. It

allowed me to search through multiple files within a folder (I see

that I can do that by a project in TextMate too). But, what I cannot

figure out is if it will allow me to replace things like:

1. Ignoring white space in HTML so that it will find all text to

replace even if it is on a separate line and with tabs.

Example:

<p>This is a paragraph</p>

vs.

<p>

This is a paragraph

</p>

If it cannot search and find both of these then it is not quite as

powerful as I had hoped.

2. Advanced Find and Replace also could find text *between* two

strings and either replace it or delete it. For instance, if I wanted

to search through this:

I want to replace the word that is between these question marks in

multiple documents. ?Delete Me? and ?Delete Me Too?

You would end up with:

I want to replace the word that is between these question marks in

multiple documents. ?? and ??

Sorry, not a great example :-( but it gets the point across.

This function though could allow you to delete all tables in an HTML

document without actually knowing what was in the table....or many

other uses. It can delete text before a string or after a string too.

Can TextMate perform these more complicated Search/Replace functions?

If not, I still love the app but does anyone know of a comparable app

that is similar to Advanced Find and Replace on the Mac since this

program is not available for the Mac OSX?

Thank you,

Linda

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