[TxMt] prefix , suffix lines ala BBEdit in TextdMate?

[William D. Neumann]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, smarks.other wrote:

> Well, I tried the example for prefixing line by column and basically after 
> several tries couldn't get it to work. I don't think I could select the 0 
> length column.

To do this, you need to select all but the last line that you want to 
prefix and hit option.  This will allow you to insert before all of the 
lines.  For example, say you have:

line a
line b
line c

and you want to insert something before each line, then select the first 
two lines in their entirety (here capitals represent selected text, and 
____ represent the selection encompassing the whitespace at the end of a 
line (including the newline).  You should then selet the text as follows:

LINE A____
LINE B____
line c

Now it option, and you'll get a zero width column selected before all 
three lines:

|line a
|line b
|line c

Type your prefix and see what happens:

prefix--line a
prefix--line b
prefix--line c

It's really more simple than it sounds.

William D. Neumann

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