I understand what your point is, but in your illustrative example,
you could highlight the line, and then do a Search on Selection Only
for h3>, replacing with h4>.
On Jul 6, 2007, at 4:30 AM, David Cortesi wrote:
I am editing a large (25K lines) HTML document -- it will become an
online etext of a book -- inspecting it and making numerous detail
changes in format and layout. It is most convenient to use the
built-in Preview, but even on a fast machine, re-rendering the page
after any edit takes almost a second -- during which I can't type
or scroll.
I am sure that BBEngineers have gotten a lot of heartburn trying to
figure out the exact delay time to wait, after a keystroke, before
initiating a redraw of the preview. Right now, it's a little fast
for me.
For example: say I want to change an <h3> into an <h4>. If I make
the change of "3" to "4", well before I can get the cursor to the
matching "3" at the end of the line and change the </h3> to </h4>,
BBEdit has initiated a redraw -- in which much of the document is
rendered as <h4> because there's no closing tag, yet.
Actually with practice I have got this particular issue contained:
I carefully hilight the opening "3" and then poise the cursor over
the closing "3". Type 4 and INSTANTLY drag over the other 3 and
type another 4. Whew, made it.
What I'm getting at is a feature request for one of two things (or
both!)
1) Make the redraw delay a preference setting (lots of room in the
HTML Preview pane), user selects number of milliseconds to delay
before redraw.
2) And/Or: make redraw a keystroke command -- remember the old
spreadsheets, where you hit command-equals to cause a "recalc"?
Like that: give me an option to make redraw user-triggered. Then I
could make several related edits, with the preview for reference,
and see the effect of all at once.
Yes, I am quite well aware of the alternatives, I've been doing
this awhile. I could open the document in another browser. But
then, to see a change, I have to cmd-s, click in the other window,
click the reload button. Or, I could close the BBEdit preview
window and set a keystroke to re-open it. Either method is slower
and has more mouse moves than just using the built-in preview...
which is great, it's just a little annoying and could easily be fixed.
Thanks for listening,
Dave Cortesi
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