On 28 Feb 2006, at 17:42, Dr. Drang wrote:

Clever! And if I'm reading your code correctly, you're updating from the last number but still allowing the user to override, which is nice.

Yes, because I sometimes use something else than numbers like e.g. [mail].

And if it's the first numerical reference, it proposes "1".

BTW, the second reference I make to #{n} was not necessary, I removed it.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

str = STDIN.read

n = str.scan( %r{.*\[(\d+)\]: }m ).to_s.to_i + 1

print "[${1:description}][${2:#{n}}]$0" + str.gsub(/[$`\\]/, '\\\\\1') + "[$2]: ${3:http://}\n"

FredB