On 16 Jan 2014, at 19:16, Kai Wood wrote:

[…] It’s clear that internally the cursors change from some kind of “normal” column selection to multi-cursors, as one can see considering the selection string […]

The “internal change” does manifest itself in some suble ways, for example extending the selection after “splitting it” will act differently. Though the goal was to treat a single zero-width column selection identical to multiple aligned carets (although they aren’t really the same).

[…] In my use case, I can still distinguish this state of the cursors by parsing the selection string, but it’s a little more complicated than relying on the newline.

Can you tell what info it is you wish to extract? As I believe the value of TM_SELECTION should be enough to tell you exactly what you need (without having to look at TM_SELECTED_TEXT).

On 16 Jan 2014, at 21:42, Kai Wood wrote:

I need the first and last line number in a range of lines where either a blinking cursor or a selection appears in the document. Only visible selections count.

Here is a ruby function that parses the selection string syntax and maps it to a “first, last” line that is rendered selected:

def parse_selection_string(str) str.split('&').map do |range| if range =~ /(\d+)(?::(\d+))?(?:+\d+)?(?:([-x])(\d+)(?::(\d+))?(?:+\d+)?)?/ l1, l2, c1, c2 = $1.to_i, ($4 ? $4.to_i : nil), ($2 || 1).to_i, ($5 || 1).to_i l1, l2, c1, c2 = l2, l1, c2, c1 if l2 && (l1 > l2 || l1 == l2 && c2 > c1)

case $3 when 'x' [ l1, l2 ] when '-' l2 -= 1 if c2 == 1 [ l1, l2 ] else [ l1, l1 ] end else abort "unsupported selection string syntax: ‘#{range}’" end end end

You may want to post-process the result to merge overlapping ranges.

On 16 Jan 2014, at 23:07, Kai Wood wrote:

I hope this will not cost you a sleepless night, because… […]

Change “c2 > c1” to “c1 > c2” in the line that swaps begin/end anchors.

On 16.01.2014, at 17:07, Kai Wood lists@kwood.eu wrote:

On 16.01.2014, at 16:38, Allan Odgaard mailinglist@textmate.org wrote:

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On 16 Jan 2014, at 21:42, Kai Wood wrote:

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I need the first and last line number in a range of lines where either a blinking cursor or a selection appears in the document. Only visible selections count.

Here is a ruby function that parses the selection string syntax and maps it to a “first, last” line that is rendered selected:

def parse_selection_string(str) str.split('&').map do |range| if range =~ /(\d+)(?::(\d+))?(?:+\d+)?(?:([-x])(\d+)(?::(\d+))?(?:+\d+)?)?/ l1, l2, c1, c2 = $1.to_i, ($4 ? $4.to_i : nil), ($2 || 1).to_i, ($5 || 1).to_i l1, l2, c1, c2 = l2, l1, c2, c1 if l2 && (l1 > l2 || l1 == l2 && c2 > c1)

     case $3
       when 'x'
         [ l1, l2 ]
       when '-'
         l2 -= 1 if c2 == 1
         [ l1, l2 ]
       else
         [ l1, l1 ]
     end
   else
     abort "unsupported selection string syntax: ‘#{range}’"
   end
 end

end

You may want to post-process the result to merge overlapping ranges.

I hope this will not cost you a sleepless night, because…

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Result: [[18, 22], [4, 3], [11, 11]] (Lowest value: 3, one less on the minimum side)

But a very nice try anyway, thanks!

The solution i came up with, would be this:

def parse_selection_for_visible_lines(selection_string) selected_lines = selection_string.split(/[&x-]/).map { |e| e.split(/[:+]/).first.to_i } selected_range = [selected_lines.min, selected_lines.max]

if (selection_string.split("&").map { |e| (e.match(/.*-(\d*)$/) ? $1 : nil ) } - [nil]).max.to_i == selected_range.last selected_range[1] -= 1 end

selected_range end

It’s ugly and it doesn’t even try to parse the selection string as a whole, like yours. It somehow works, because the only case where there is 1 additional line at the end of the document occurs, if a block of cursors separated by “&” with normal_range separator “-" WITHOUT position “:” at the end is found (Something like "23:3-24”) - but only if this block is at the end of the range. (I’m not even sure I can explain this correctly :) )