[TxMt] [ANN] Select Balanced HTML Tag!!!1!

Thomas Aylott - subtleGradient textmate at subtleGradient.com
Tue Nov 20 22:45:07 UTC 2007


On Nov 20, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Hans-Jörg Bibiko wrote:
> On 16.11.2007, at 18:51, Thomas Aylott - subtleGradient wrote:
>> 	I gave up on regex finally and mangled HTML around a bit to work  
>> with the normal select brackets internal TextMate command.
>
> Hi,
>
> I wrote a perl script with a nested tag killer as tmCommand. Fine.  
> It works and I believe I caught 99% of all exceptions within HTML/ 
> XML ;)
> And it is fast even for large document with 10000 lines (ca. 100ms).
>
> If my document is larger than ca. 540kB the tmCommand doesn't work.  
> I don't know why, but I guess there is a maximum size for passing  
> parameter, or what ever.
>
> OK. This script outputs the offset of the start tag, the length of  
> the found text chunk, and I can output the entire text chunk.
>
> Now my question:
> Is there a way to highlight this text by using a macro/command  
> WITHOUT TMTOOLS? I can copy this text into the clipboard but then ??
> Any ideas?
>
>
> With TMTOOLS it wouldn't be a problem. Also the text size doesn't  
> matter.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Hans


Well, don't hold on on me here!
Give me the TMTOOLS version now and we can figure out a better version  
later.

Oh, and have I mentioned how much we all love you?

—Thomas Aylott – subtleGradient—


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