On 11 Oct 2006, at 08:25 , Rob Stevenson wrote:
For the very first time in the 58 years I've lived on this planet
(don't ASK about the other ones) I could have used a rectangular
selection -- and I forgot.
I use it about once a month for exactly these sorts of edits. the
other 10 or so times, I forget.
For example, I just have a bunch of text I wanted to paste into an
email. It had a time stamp on each line, something like this:
[12:41:10]\t
[12:41:32]\t
[12:41:38]\t
[12:42:00]\t
[12:42:01]\t
[12:42:04]\t
[12:43:12]\t
[12:43:20]\t
[12:45:28]\t
[12:47:16]\t
[13:21:51]\t
[13:36:34]\t
I could have use rectangular selection instead of
find: ^\[.{8}]\r
replace: null
but that would have required 1) thinking about it and 2) turning off
soft-wrap.
I think when you click-option-drag BBEdit should transparently switch
off softwrap until you let go of the mouse or option key...
--
Because you can't cotton to evil. No Sir. You have to smack evil on
the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of justice and say,'Bad evil.
bad BAD evil'"
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