[TxMt] TM & UBB code some questions

[Allan Odgaard]

On Jan 25, 2005, at 12:14, Mats Persson wrote:

> While doing this, I am missing the "Insert Closing Tag" functionality 
> of HTML

I'm not too happy about having this hardcoded to SGML/XML either :/ 
when I wrote it, I couldn't find any real use cases outside HTML/XML, 
so I figured okay -- thanks for bringing UBB to my attention.

> and started wondering about how I could extend it to handle the basic 
> UBB tags as well. Unfortunately I didn't get very far as I can't 
> really see the starting point. :(

When I do emacs marks it should be possible to do a naive version with 
a macro (search back, copy tag, back to mark, paste/modify). When I do 
full backwards searching for regular expressions, it should even be 
possible to do a version that accommodates nesting (and scripting 
support will be yet another solution).

But of course none of that helps you currently...