[TxMt] Re: Changing the selection in a script/command

Brilliant, thanks

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On 12 October 2014 08:46, Allan Odgaard mailinglist@textmate.org wrote:

On 12 Oct 2014, at 9:25, Richard Drake wrote:

Thanks René

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You gave me the crucial clue but, for the record, it's (for example)

TM_SELECTED_TEXT="some text" TM_SELECTION="14:6-14:15"

and it's the second one I was missing.

For the records, TM_SELECTION follows the selection string syntax documented here: http://manual.textmate.org/references.html#selection- string

For example with multiple selections or columnar selections, you will see & and x in the string, and with “freehanded” placement of caret (e.g. option click past end of line) you will see + (which can also occur for column selections).

I think a regexp like this can be used for a simple parser:

/^(\d+)(?::(\d+))?(?:\+\d+)?(-|x)(\d+)(?::(\d+))?(?:\+\d+)?(?:&.*)?$/

    $1 = from line
    $2 = from column
    $3 = - or x indicating regular or columnar selection
    $4 = to line
    $5 = to column

I didn’t capture the “past EOL offsets”.

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