Hi Allan,
Yes, I do this kind of thing often enough to make it useful (for me). Maybe other people have ways of achieving the same result. I came to TextMate after working with nedit for many years. Its search and replace in a column selection is exactly how I have described it here. IMHO, I think a search replace should only ever change the text that matches the search query (regardless of how the search/replace was applied -- replace all, replace in selection or even replace in a column selection). I don't feel comfortable with commands that have unknown side-effects. Its really only a minor quibble and I'm certainly very happy with TextMate...but if you do add extra functionality to the search/replace I'd be even happier!
Cheers, Leo
On 10/11/2006, at 1:10 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 9. Nov 2006, at 07:45, Leo Brewin wrote:
[...] Here are two lines from some program.
Name1:=ThisFooBar; Name2:=ThatBar;
If I use column selection to select "Foo" from the first line and "Bar" from the second line then when I do a replace in selection of Bar with FooBar the result will be
Name1:=ThisFoo Bar; Name2:=ThatFooBar;
I see that it doesn’t work here -- but I wonder, is this an actual example of what you’re doing? Seems to be not the most intuitive use of replacements performed in columns ;)
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