[TxMt] find/replace in column selection

[Leo Brewin]

Hi Allan,

Yes, I do this kind of thing often enough to make it useful (for me).  
Maybe other people have ways of achieving the same result. I came to  
TextMate after working with nedit for many years. Its search and  
replace in a column selection is exactly how I have described it  
here. IMHO, I think a search replace should only ever change the text  
that matches the search query (regardless of how the search/replace  
was applied -- replace all, replace in selection or even replace in a  
column selection). I don't feel comfortable with commands that have  
unknown side-effects. Its really only a minor quibble and I'm  
certainly very happy with TextMate...but if you do add extra  
functionality to the search/replace I'd be even happier!

Cheers,
Leo

On 10/11/2006, at 1:10 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 9. Nov 2006, at 07:45, Leo Brewin wrote:
>
>> [...] Here are two lines from some program.
>>
>>    Name1:=ThisFooBar;
>>    Name2:=ThatBar;
>>
>> If I use column selection to select "Foo" from the first line and  
>> "Bar" from the second line then when I do a replace in selection  
>> of Bar with FooBar the result will be
>>
>>    Name1:=ThisFoo   Bar;
>>    Name2:=ThatFooBar;
>
> I see that it doesn’t work here -- but I wonder, is this an actual  
> example of what you’re doing? Seems to be not the most intuitive  
> use of replacements performed in columns ;)
>
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