Paul~ If you literally mean "(?s)^Note:.*?(?=^RULE)", then you could achieve the effect you want by escaping all the regex characters in BBEdit's "Search for: field, then surround the whole thing with matching parentheses, as follows ...
(\(\⌀?s\)\^Note:\.\*\?\(\?=\^RULE\)) ... and then in the "Replace With:" field specify ... \t\1 ... to prepend a tab in front of your escaped regex phrase, wherever that phrase may occur in your document. Experiment with it to see if it does what you want. That is, make a copy of your document (in Finder: "⌘d"), plug in the search and replace values, choose "Replace All" and see if this achieves what you want. ~Semper Fi, Mac! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = On Jul 18, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Paul Linsay wrote: > I have a very long text document that I need to format. There are > multi-line sections of text that are captured by the regex > > (?s)^Note:.*?(?=^RULE) > > that I would like to shift to the right by one tab -- even one space > would be fine. Every Note is different with an unpredictable number > of lines. It's not clear to me how to do this formatting with a > Replace All in a text factory. I could do a Find and Shift Right by > hand a few hundred times, but I'd rather not. > > Any suggestions on how to do this with BBEdit? > > Thanks-- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the > "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. > 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 feature request or would like to report a problem, > please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. > Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. 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 feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
