[TxMt] TM doesn't have trouble with RE, but I have.

[marios]

Sven Axelsson wrote:
> On 20/02/2008, marios <tmtxpstuff at consking.com> wrote:
>>  So this is the task:
>>
>>  Match every beginning of a line, including the first line of the
>>  document, and put that in Capture register one, then match every line
>>  until the end of the Line, end put that in Capture Register 2, then
>>  replace every instance, with some extra Markup (The spantags here ) plus
>>  Capture Register 2.
>>
>>  This works from within TextMate, but not in Javascript.
> 
> OK, so this really hasn't anything to do with TextMate. Perhaps
> Javascript won't let you match newline characters? Try this regular
> expression instead, it may work better:
> 
> ^(.*)$
> 

That finally didn't work, but I've good news:
This finally works:

pattern:  /^(\n)|(\n)/,
replacement: "$2<span class=\"$0\"></span>"

What is interesting to not here, is that this, if I'm not mistaken is
the only way to achieve this. ( Took me about 2 hours to figure this out )
The first part of the RE will take care of the one line that gets lost
by the second part. Sounds weird.

Here is what I have now:

http://www.consking.com/screenshots/Texari_light.png

( Also a little tricky was to get the alignment of the line-numbers right )

I call it TeXarI Light. ( A lite version of Texari )

( Looks almost like TextMate, doesn't it ? )

regrds, marios