On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:14, Mats Persson wrote:
While doing this, I am missing the "Insert Closing Tag" functionality of HTML
I'm not too happy about having this hardcoded to SGML/XML either :/ when I wrote it, I couldn't find any real use cases outside HTML/XML, so I figured okay -- thanks for bringing UBB to my attention.
and started wondering about how I could extend it to handle the basic UBB tags as well. Unfortunately I didn't get very far as I can't really see the starting point. :(
When I do emacs marks it should be possible to do a naive version with a macro (search back, copy tag, back to mark, paste/modify). When I do full backwards searching for regular expressions, it should even be possible to do a version that accommodates nesting (and scripting support will be yet another solution).
But of course none of that helps you currently...