Thanks.
On 24 Jul 2007, at 15:15, Michael Sheets wrote:
On Jul 24, 2007, at 3:23 AM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
- Is it possible to look for the internal markups which TM is
using like "<support.function.perl>(.*?)</support.function.perl>" directly? I only know the way to use the 'magic keyword' in a tmCommand "<key>inputFormat</key><string>xml</string>" and parse the output.
Need to know why you need this to better answer it. For some cases you might have to do that, if you want the content of a scope for a command that is easy. Change the input to selected text, then choose scope as the alternate. Now the text around the caret matching the scope given will be available to the command.
Yes, I know. I'm using TM not only for writing source code but also for text analysis (n-gram, morphemes, special consonant clusters, unwanted glyphs, etc.). I find it quite convient to see what's going on within the text while writing. That's why I wrote a special language grammar to highlight these patterns (unfortunately a dynamic grammar doesn't work). Then I want to find the next morpheme for instance. Within TM's Find Dialog I cannot look for for these tags, I "only" can look for the regexp, but sometimes the regexp is really long (like for the next example).
Or an other example. A friend of mine is teaching Perl. He would find it very helpful to parse the current Perl code for all <support.function.perl> and <variable.other.predefined.perl> in order to list the used Perl functions/variables for a kind of glossary.
Of course, everything is doable by using Regexps in a command with inputFormat=xml. So my question only was whether there is a more direct way to use the internal markups, because these tags are already there.
Hans