[TxMt] oniguruma is your friend!!!!

[thomas Aylott]

I love you oniguruma!!!!!

I must be seriously stinking geeky to find the most enjoyment in life  
(besides obvious things ;) ) from regular expressions, SQL & syntax  
coloring.
That can't be healthy.
But, anyway...

Quick snazyness you can now do with your friend oniguruma:

Turn the entire document into a snippet! WOO!
Record a macro that searches for:
             (?<==")[^"]*(?=")|(?<==')[^']*(?=')
Save it.
Give it a scope of 'meta.tag, declaration.tag' (or more specifically  
'text.html meta.tag -source, text.html declaration.tag -source').
Give it a shortcut of option-tab.

SHEBANG! Your HTML is now a giant snippet.


This wasn't possible before because the search regex wasn't  
compatible with zero-width-positive-lookbehind.
But our new friend oniguruma has given us even more super-powers.  
It's like being superman and someone handing you green lanterns ring.
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I have attached the Macros that I've created HTML Attribute NEXT &  
PREV, HTML Attribute Value NEXT & PREV. I also made a quick HTML  
Attribute ADD Snippet & Macro that goes to the end of the current tag  
and adds a generic html snippet to the end, but i didn't include that  
one.




SLIGHT PROBLEM: (oh, you knew it was coming)
I wanted to implement using the tab key to tab to the next occurrence  
of the next type of thing you have selected (inside an attribute  
value tabs to the next attribute value; inside an attribute name tabs  
to select the next attribute name value pair, etc..)

The two problems are:
1: We need to have dynamic scopes.
Taking over the tab key equivalent takes it away from snippets too.
If I have a command that runs inside of HTML attribute values. My  
HTML snippets stop working properly.
We need some way of eliminating those commands and such from inside  
of running snippets.
The dynamic.snippet scope you mentioned earlier would be ideal for  
this situation. You could even have running snippets have a special  
color.
I love being able to do boolean logic with scopes. SWEET!!!

2: Selections carry the scope of the last character selected.
I tried to set a macro for next html attribute & next html attribute  
value. Once you tab to the first html value (EG: name="value") it  
picks up the scope of the string (the " being the last character in  
the selection.) Then only the next html attribute value macro (EG:  
the value in name="value") would fire when hitting the command twice.
The workaround I made was to either:
A) Change the html attribute value deal to select the space after the  
closing quote mark (thereby changing the scope of the selection back  
to html attribute). This didn't work because there is no space to  
select at the end of an attribute and it was just 'wrong' in my opinion.
B) Change the key equivalent of one of them to something else. This  
is what i've chosen.

I'm not sure if this one is really the wrong behavior or what. It  
seems logical to pick up the scope of the last character selected. I  
can't really think of any other way of handling that.


All in all... I am so incredibly delighted... Oh yes. so much.

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