[TxMt] Re: How to break long line of code into multiple lines?

[Rob McBroom]

On 3 Jan 2018, at 4:34, Tuk Bredsdorff wrote:

> Hi,
>
> is there a quick way to transform for instance
>
> 	[Role, User, UserRole, SourceAddress, BulkMessage, Message, 
> SingleSMSTemplate, Company, Contact]
>
> into
>
> 	[
> 		Role,
> 		User,
> 		UserRole,
> 		SourceAddress,
> 		BulkMessage,
> 		Message,
> 		SingleSMSTemplate,
> 		Company,
> 		Contact
> 	],
>
> ?
>
> (In this case it's Python but it could be more or less any language.)
>
> I do this so often manually, there must be a better way?

I do this a lot in Python as well. If there aren’t that many, I’ll 
just select the first Space and hit ⌃W repeatedly until I have them 
all, then hit ↩. This preserves indentation.

If you had string literals that might contain spaces, you could select 
something more unique, like “, “ or “', “ then hit ⌃W as 
before, but before hitting return, use the right arrow to deselect, then 
⇧← to select just the Space before hitting ↩.

For longer lists, you can select what you want to replace, hit ⌘E to 
make that the search term, hit ⇧⌘L to select the entire line (to 
avoid messing with the rest of the file) then hit ⌥⌘F to select all 
occurrences of the search term on that line. From there, adjust the 
selection as needed and hit ↩ when ready.

Finally, be sure to go back and add a comma after the last item. Your 
diff output will thank you.

-- 
Rob McBroom
http://www.skurfer.com/