[TxMt] Re: Changing the selection in a script/command

[Allan Odgaard]

On 7 Oct 2014, at 21:42, Richard Drake wrote:

> It's easy enough to change the current selection with a macro but is 
> it
> possible in a command written in Ruby?

If you want to insert partially selected text then you can insert as 
snippet and use the snippet syntax to make parts selected.

If you only want to select things in the document (and not insert 
anything) then (in ruby) you can call:

     %x{ "$TM_MATE" -l«selection» }

Here «selection» should be a string in the format described here 
http://manual.textmate.org/references.html#selection-string

Be aware though that such command should be asynchronous, since normally 
TextMate would wait for your command to finish and use its result to 
change the document/selection (which you do not want here).