Yes, thanks Seth. I had not previously experimented with that level of
scripting, so was bemoaning the loss of a built-in function and familiar
process. Further reading of the documentation will be required...
Regards,
Geoff Hicks
On 02/08/2011, at 11:54 PM, Seth Dillingham wrote:
> On 7/30/2011, Geoff Hicks said:
>
>> 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.
>
> Geoff,
>
> Have you considered using a script for this work?
>
> You could certainly imitate the original behavior with a script. Run the
> first search, get the index of the result, run the second search, get the
> index of the result, set the selection to the full range.
>
> No?
>
> Seth
>
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