[TxMt] Copy and Duplicate word snippet

[Helmut Granda]

Great! thanks for the information. I will go ahead and do a research on that
and like you suggested there might be a place where they are doing what I
need like in Ruby.

Thanks again,
Helmut

On 1/24/07, Charilaos Skiadas <skiadas at hanover.edu> wrote:
>
> On Jan 24, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Helmut Granda wrote:
> > and this works great if there is only one line of text but lets say
> > I need to select a certain word in the middle of a pharragraph then
> > i get the following
> >
> > before snippet:
> > first word theText second word
> >
> > after snippet:
> > first word theText theText = theText second word
> >
> > as you can tell the snippet inserts the comman din the middle of
> > the sentence, is there a way to avoid that?
>
> You would need to use a command, that has as input the entire
> document and output probably insert as snippet. Then you would have
> to locate the line the caret is at, and then add a line right after
> it with what you want. You then need to snippet-escape all the
> regular text, and add a $0 at the correct location where you want the
> caret to end up.
>
> Sorry, short on time here, but there are ruby libraries that make
> most of the above very easy (for instance the escaping part). The
> location can be found via the [dynamic environment variables][http://
> macromates.com/textmate/manual/
> environment_variables#environment_variables]. There are a number of
> commands that do similar things in most bundles, certainly in GTDAlt
> and LaTeX bundles. It should be a short 5-6 line ruby script, if the
> text manipulation you want to do is simple like above. I'll try to
> write an example when I get a chance.
>
> > TIA
> > Helmut
>
> Haris
>
>
>
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