I work primarily with BBEdit on Poser format .pz3 text files with a custom codeless language module for syntax colouring I've cobbled together myself. Finding and replacing multiple blocks of text bounded by definable search strings that may be separated by many hundreds, if not thousands of arbitrary lines has never been possible (stack overflows, except when intervening lines < ~100) within TextWrangler or BBEdit. The files may be many hundreds of MB in size. My only workaround was to define a search expression for the start block and another for the end block then alternate the searches, toggling the extend selection checkbox in the modal find dialog. With key bindings for all the components of this replacement strategy, excluding the alternating search expressions, this process was reasonably efficient.
Since BBEdit 10 and the removal (not just deprecation) of the modal find dialog, this process is entirely impossible, unless somebody can show me where the Extend Selection option for Finding can be found or enabled again. Not Happy, Jan. -- 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 bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group. Follow @bbedit on Twitter: <http://www.twitter.com/bbedit>
