[TxMt] Re: How to extract part of a line of code and make it a variable?

Curt Sellmer sellmerfud at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 22:48:24 UTC 2012


Here is a bundle "Command" that I use to do this.  It is written for scala
so the variable declaration is preceded with the 'var' keyword.  Just
remove it if you are working with a language such as Ruby that does not
require this.

https://gist.github.com/3543696



On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Jérémy Lecour <jeremy.lecour at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Le 30 août 2012 à 19:20, Allan Odgaard <mailinglist at textmate.org> a écrit
> :
>
> > On Aug 30, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Jérémy Lecour <jeremy.lecour at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> […] Does this seems feasible in TextMate?
> >
> > A computer can do almost everything as long as you can come up with the
> proper algorithm. I am rather lost as what exactly the algorithm you ask
> for should do, besides the “sometimes I have some code, and I would like it
> to move around a little and introduce a new variable” ;)
> >
> > If you have seen the feature in vim, it might be worth simply finding
> the code for it, and see exactly what it does in which situations.
>
>
> I'm sorry Allan if I didn't make myself clear or seemed to ask for the
> moon (for free). That was not my intention.
>
> What I was trying to say is that my first example was voluntarily
> extremely simple, and the proposed solution didn't work for a more
> complicated but common situation.
>
> I've been in the software business for many years and I know that we can
> do anything with the correct amount of effort.
> By asking if it was feasible with TextMate it was more of a question about
> the tools provided by TextMate. Tools that I've had trouble grasping,
> probably because I've not spent enough time learning them.
>
> As I've (poorly) explained, within Vim the desired feature is done like
> this (I'll try to get the "real" code) :
> * select the portion to extract
> * prompt for a variable name
> * replace the selected text by the variable name
> * insert a new line just above the current one with the extracted portion
> prefix by the variable name and an equal
>
> Maybe these steps can be reproduced within TextMate.
> Using a snippet and a placeholder was not a "requirement" for me, but an
> idea of a possible solution.
>
>
> Again, I'm sorry if I sound like a spoiled kid, crying for a free toy.
> That's not me.
> I'm really grateful of your work and your help.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jérémy Lecour
> Conception et développement d'applications web
> 06 22 43 88 94 - http://jeremy.wordpress.com - http://twitter.com/jlecour
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