On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Doug Schepers wrote:

My text editor of choice on Windows was TextPad, and it supported a handy way to insert sequential numbers for "replace all" operations. This was useful, for example, when inserting line numbers, creating unique ids, etc.

I don't know if the syntax was unique to TextPad, or if it is part of some standard regex syntax, but it was pretty simple and effective:

\i(<start_index>,<increment>)

\i Replace with numbers starting from 1, incrementing by 1. \i(10) Replace with numbers starting from 10, incrementing by 1. \i(0,10) Replace with numbers starting from 0, incrementing by 10. \i(100,-10) Replace with numbers starting from 100, decrementing by -10.

Any chance this (or something similar) could be added to TextMate?

Hi Doug,

for such cases I use this tmcommand: Input: selection or document Ouptut: new doc Command: #!/usr/bin/perl -w #!/usr/bin/perl -w

$cnt=1; $inc=1;

while(<>) { if(m/^\i((\d+)\s*,\s*(\d+))$/) { $cnt=$1; $inc=$2; next; } while(s/\i/$cnt/) {$cnt+=$inc;} print; } Example text: Hello, this is a test. \i(2,5) Here my \i. item followed by item \i. Furthermore here is my \i. item.

Then you get: Hello, this is a test. Here my 2. item followed by item 7. Furthermore here is my 12. item.

If you do not set up \i(a,b) it simply starts at 1 incremented by 1.

Hopefully it helps.

--Hans