Hi Dennis, Thanks for your reply. I have had a look at this feature now, and whilst it looks useful, it doesn't do quite what I wanted...
For example, in Coda, I can select multiple lines of text, right-click and select Blockedit Selection. The selected text background changes from blue to grey (to indicate change of editing mode) and I can the type anything on any of the selected lines and it will be faithfully reproduced on every selected line. Prefix/Suffix does this for me at the start and end of selected text, but I wish to do this at any point within the text e.g. Here is a line of text Here is a line of text Here is a line of text Here is a line of text Here is a line of text I then want to 'blockedit' this so that I can insert the word 'new' on every line i.e. Here is a new line of text Here is a new line of text Here is a new line of text Here is a new line of text Here is a new line of text I can do this in Coda simply by selecting all lines then typing the word 'new' once on the first selected line, in the appropriate position, and all selected lines then appear as above. Likewise, any deleting done on a single line will be repeated on all other selected lines... It is a shame if this isn't possible in BBEdit, as I prefer it to Coda in all other ways, but this feature means that I will need to hang on to Coda for those occasions (frequent!) when I need to do the same editing on multiple lines of text. Cheers, Steve On Aug 7, 6:22 am, Dennis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 4, 2009, at 7:16 AM, SJR wrote: > > > Does anyone know if it is possible to do the equivalent of Coda's > > (Panic Software) 'BlockEditSelection' in BBEdit? > > I'm not familiar with Coda's 'BlockEditSelection' feature, but it > sounds similar to BBEdit's rectangular selections. Hold down the > Option key while dragging your cursor across some text (soft wrap must > also be disabled). You can then do all normal text operations on the > resulting rectangular selection. See page 91 of the user manual for > more information. > > I often use rectangular selections with BBEdit's Text -> "Prefix/ > Suffix Lines..." command to add/remove text across multiple, similar > lines all at once, like a list of variable declarations. It's a > powerful combination of features. > > Hope this helps. > > -Dennis --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
