[TxMt] Select pasted text

[Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient)]

On Feb 24, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Gerd Knops wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Nigel Chapman wrote:
>
>> I often find that I paste something into a document, then  
>> immediately select it to do something to it, like wrapping it in  
>> tags or converting characters to entities. Long ago I used an  
>> editor (possibly alpha) that had a 'select pasted text' command,  
>> that did the selection straight after a paste, without having to  
>> drag over it or whatever. I can't find an equivalent command in  
>> TextMate, nor any environment variables pointing to the start and  
>> end of the latest pasting that would let me implement it myself.
>>
>> Have I missed something? Either a command in some bundle I don't  
>> know about or some other way of achieving the same effect?
>>
>> If not, here's a feature request. Any one of the following:
>>
>> Select Pasted Text command
>> Paste and Select command (extra modifier key on cmd-V)
>> Select after Pasting preference.
>>
>> Thanks for any help or pointers.
>>
> Easy:
>
> <Paste & Select.tmCommand>

That one breaks if you paste anything with certain reserved characters.

If you have the r 6636 version of the TextMate escape library…
You can use this one instead.
http://pastie.textmate.org/42665

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require ENV['TM_SUPPORT_PATH'] + "/lib/escape.rb"
print "${0:#{e_snp(`pbpaste`)}}"

If you don't have the latest version of the escape library, you'll  
have to add
http://pastie.textmate.org/42666

# escape text for use in a TextMate snippet placeholder
def e_snp(str)
	str.to_s.gsub(/(?=[$`\\}])/, '\\')
end

thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — sixteenColors
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