On May 4, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Oliver Taylor wrote:

I was looking to implement the feature that crashed TextMate and I hoped you all could help me out with some ruby or perl (or whatever) voodoo.

I'm happy to help, if I can get my head around the problem. Does this sound right?

1. When triggered the macro looks backwards from the cursor position for lines beginning with four tabs? 2. The first such line is skipped and the second such line inserted where the cursor is.

What is supposed to happen if there is only one such line in the document. (I know it crashes, but what is it suppose to do?)

James Edward Gray II

On May 4, 2006, at 3:00 PM, Oliver Taylor wrote:

Allan recently isolated a bug I found to be in the regular expression library TextMate uses and we're waiting for a response. While we wait I was looking to implement the feature that crashed TextMate and I hoped you all could help me out with some ruby or perl (or whatever) voodoo.

The bug is explained here: http://ollieman.net/videos/find-bug.mov

The expected behavior is explained here: http://ollieman.net/videos/ desired.mp4

It works the rest of the time, it's just when at the beginning of the document that it crashes.

Thanks in advance for any help.

If I understand the problem correct, the script below does that. Input set to 'Entire Document', Output to 'Insert as Text'.

Gerd

#!/usr/bin/perl -w $m1=$m2=''; $c=1; while(<>) { if(/^\t{4}(.+)[\r\n]+$/) { $m1=$m2; $m2=$1; } $c++; last if($c==$ENV{'TM_LINE_NUMBER'}); } print "\n\n\t\t\t\t$m1";