[TxMt] Re: snippet to generate unique ID, detect end of document, and move cursor

[Stephan Hugel]

On 26 July 2010 18:20, plastichairdoo <plastichairdoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> had a look - very cool!
> it strikes me that a variation on this could possibly be used to solve my earlier problem of selecting paragraphs with a keystroke that ONLY selects to the beginning and end characters (as opposed to entire beginning and ending lines with all the spaces and 'returns')
> if that's not clear you can look at my earlier question that I posted a few days ago.
>
> since MY regex skills are even *less* than nonexistent =p I'd be intensely grateful if someone like yourself took this on as a project. it seems on the face of it that it would be an easy enough conversion from your current script... just without the bracket delimiters.
> OR - if that's not possible - perhaps you could use your script as it is and simply have the macro delete the brackets after the block is selected?
>
> just thinking about ways to speed up the workflow - no mouse allowed!
> cheers,
> bennett
>
> On Jul 26, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Stephan Hugel wrote:
>
>> On 26 July 2010 01:13, Dr. Drang <drdrang at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'll leave the unique ID for someone else to answer. As for the
>>> jumping back and forth in the document, take a look at this:
>>>
>>> http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2006/03/markdown-links-in-textmate-the-final-frontier/
>>>
>>> I use reference-style links and put the URLs at the bottom of the
>>> document. You should be able to adapt the logic of my
>>> command/snippet/macro combination to the footnote syntax.
>>
>> That seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I can't seem to be able
>> to adapt your regex pattern to match
>> [^n]:
>> though. I've tried both
>> @nums = $text =~ /^\[\^(\d+)\]: /mg; and
>> @nums = $text =~ /^\[(\^\d+)\]: /mg;
Ignore me, I was having some sort of minor neurological event.
Everything's working fine now. Thanks again!

>> Without success. Should I also be adapting:
>> # Escape special characters.
>> $text =~ s/([\$\\`])/\\$1/g;
>>
>> (apologies, my regex abilities are nonexistent)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Drang
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Stephan Hugel <urschrei at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I'm trying to write a snippet that will create a footnote in a TM file
>>>> (using markdown syntax), and I'm having some difficulties:
>>>>
>>>> [snip]
>>>>
>>>> So, what the snippet needs to do (theoretically) when snippet is
>>>> triggered: generate a (not too long, 5 digit alphanumeric should be
>>>> fine for a single document) unique id, and insert the full
>>>> [^footnote_identifier] string, then jump to the end of the document,
>>>> insert [^footnote_identifier]: and a space, allow typing of the
>>>> footnote text, then return to the original insertion point when tab is
>>>> pressed again.
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>> steph
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