[TxMt] Search and replace matching brackets?

[Nicholas Cole]

On 8/27/07, Ciarán Walsh <ciawal at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 27 Aug 2007, at 04:02, Nicholas Cole wrote:
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> Textmate is very good at working out which close brace goes with which
> open brace, but as far as I can see that ability is not available when doing
> a search and replace.  Is that right?
>
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> You could work up a macro using the Select → Enclosing Brackets function.
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> A simple example: Start recording a macro, do a find for "\footnote{",
> press → once, press ⇧⌘B to select the enclosing brackets.
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> At this point you'll have the brackets and contents of the footnote
> selected and can do what you want with them.
>


Hmmm. An ingenious solution that wouldn't have occurred to me!

But it would still be nice to search and replace matching things....I wonder
if Allan is reading.... ;-)

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