Provided I correctly understand the task at hand :-), the Entab
command (Text -> Entab) set to a tab width of 4 spaces should do
what you need.
Regards,
Patrick Woolsey
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Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com/>
On 2/25/16 at 3:05 PM, [email protected] (Brian Porter) wrote:
I'm trying to find a trick for using the grep-enabled
Find/Replace BBEdit to convert files that use spaces for
indentation to using tabs. Here's an example input text snippet:
1. Item
a. sub-item
i. third level
ii. another third level
2. Second Top Level
What I'd like to do is replace all sets-of-4-spaces at the
beginning of the line with a single tab (per each 4-space-set),
but it seems like this would require being able to count the
*number *of matches and use that in the back reference somehow
For example, the following search and replace patterns can be
used to replace the *first *set of spaces with a tab, but this
pattern must be applied repeatedly for every "level" of indent
being used in the file:
*Find:*
^(\t*)(\ \ \ \ )
*Replace:*
\1\t
Ideally I want something like this:
*Find:*
^((\ \ \ \ )+)
*Replace:*
\t{countOf(\2 in \1)} # Yes it's wildly invalid; use your
imagination. :-P
I'm unaware of any mechanism in grep/regex that would allow for
this. Am I correct in thinking it's impossible? Is there an
alternative approach, perhaps via Apple/shell script that could
get the job done that I'm not considering?
Thanks,
Brian
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