Hello everybody,
First of all, I'm well aware of the ability to use column selections instead of rows, so please don't respond with that. What I'd like to be able to do is select a random bit of text here and another there, no matter where they are in the document, and then be able to use cmd- c to copy it and paste it to another section (perhaps separated by line breaks to indicate that the text fragments are from non- continuous selections). Kind of like the cmd key lets you do in some other cocoa editors (like Pages). Any ideas?
Thanks,
Michael
On Aug 10, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
Hello everybody,
First of all, I'm well aware of the ability to use column selections instead of rows, so please don't respond with that. What I'd like to be able to do is select a random bit of text here and another there, no matter where they are in the document, and then be able to use cmd-c to copy it and paste it to another section (perhaps separated by line breaks to indicate that the text fragments are from non- continuous selections). Kind of like the cmd key lets you do in some other cocoa editors (like Pages). Any ideas?
Thanks,
Michael
Cannot be done in TM1.x. I think it might be a planned feature for a future version, but maybe not even TM2. Anyone remember any specifics? (or have the will to google it?) thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — bundleForge
You can try Duane Jonnson bundle (something about snippets). I don't remember exactly what it does but it was something about manipulating text in random parts of document...
PS Sorry, but i didn't remember a link to bundle home... hope you can find it.
On 8/12/07, Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) oblivious@subtlegradient.com wrote:
On Aug 10, 2007, at 12:29 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
Hello everybody,
First of all, I'm well aware of the ability to use column selections instead of rows, so please don't respond with that. What I'd like to be able to do is select a random bit of text here and another there, no matter where they are in the document, and then be able to use cmd-c to copy it and paste it to another section (perhaps separated by line breaks to indicate that the text fragments are from non- continuous selections). Kind of like the cmd key lets you do in some other cocoa editors (like Pages). Any ideas?
Thanks,
Michael
Cannot be done in TM1.x. I think it might be a planned feature for a future version, but maybe not even TM2. Anyone remember any specifics? (or have the will to google it?) thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — bundleForge
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On Aug 13, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Alexey Blinov wrote:
You can try Duane Jonnson bundle (something about snippets). I don't remember exactly what it does but it was something about manipulating text in random parts of document...
PS Sorry, but i didn't remember a link to bundle home... hope you can find it.
The bundle is here: http://blog.inquirylabs.com/my-textmate-bundle/
The command you are thinking of will let you mark several random points in a document and then invoke a mode where you can type and have the text inserted at all of those points simultaneously. It is a great command, but I don't think it will do what the OP is looking for.
There's a demo movie on that page that will better explain what the command does.
-dan
On Aug 11, 2007, at 7:18 PM, Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) wrote:
[...] What I'd like to be able to do is select a random bit of text here and another there, no matter where they are in the document, and then be able to use cmd-c to copy it and paste it to another section [...]
Cannot be done in TM1.x. I think it might be a planned feature for a future version, but maybe not even TM2. Anyone remember any specifics? (or have the will to google it?)
I have no real plans of this. I think my last comments on the topic was something like this not being very useful because of how it would not be easy accessible via keyboard only and it would introduce *a lot* of complexity in basically every single thing that potentially works with the selection, in many cases having to define how a transformation should work in the case of discontinuous selections (which isn’t always intuitive) -- so hardly worth it.
As I believe was already said in this thread, just copy away and paste with shift down to go back through the history. That gives you the same functionality, but as the OP requested.
On Aug 11, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Michael Jackson wrote:
First of all, I'm well aware of the ability to use column selections instead of rows, so please don't respond with that. What I'd like to be able to do is select a random bit of text here and another there, no matter where they are in the document, and then be able to use cmd-c to copy it and paste it to another section (perhaps separated by line breaks to indicate that the text fragments are from non-continuous selections). Kind of like the cmd key lets you do in some other cocoa editors (like Pages). Any ideas?
Copy each section individually, then use paste from history/paste previous/paste next?
j.
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