Hi Bill, In the Finder you can select several objects simultaneously by holding down the command key. This also works in OpenOffice (and surely in MS Word), but that doesn't seem to work in the current version of BBEdit.
I guess I don't quite understand the problem, as I didn't see an example, but would it be possible to replace one part at a time? For instance if you have - this is all very confusing and you want to change it to - this may be very interesting you could do first - this may be very confusing and then - this may be very interesting But perhaps the number of contiguous parts varies or some other complication arises. Best, Nestor > On 4 Feb 2017, at 21:08, Bill Kochman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ollie, I use basic grep patterns every single day on a large volume of files. > However, I must humbly admit that a simple Padawan Learner am I. :) > > >> On Feb 5, 2017, at 10:03 AM, Oliver Boermans <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Bill, I see what you are looking for is somewhat more complicated! >> For non-contiguous text selection to work in the desired manner it would >> still be necessary for the machine to create some flavour of grep pattern >> based on your selection. So it follows, until such time that this genius >> creation exists, it ought to be possible to manually write a pattern that >> does the job for you now. >> How is your grep foo? Have you been down that path? >> Cheers >> Ollie -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. 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 Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/bbedit.
