> On Jun 10, 2018, at 8:03 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> On Jun 10, 2018, at 20:50, Herbert Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Jun 9, 2018, at 10:43 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> What's the easy way to select a block of lines specified by line numbers? >>> >>> Like, I have a big text and want to select from line 57 to line 293? >>> >>> If I were in emacs, I'd put a mark (ctrl+@) at the beginning of line 57 and >>> would jump to line 293, then a region would be created and I could work on >>> it. >>> >>> Is there an equivalent to setting a mark to create a selection in BBedit? >>> >>> >>> Jean-Christophe Helary >> >> Howdy, >> >> Click at the start line, go to the final line, Shift-Click at the end of >> that line. > > :) Yes. > > But I was looking for something more automatic. > > The problem with BBEdit is that point and mark are always the same (if you > allow myself to speak in emacsese). > > If there was a way to separate point and mark. I could leave the mark where I > want, jump to some place in the document and I would have a selection. > > I guess that's a valid feature request ? > > > Jean-Christophe Helary
Howdy, There are many ``emacsy'' commands, including what you want, that already exist in Apple's Text Frameworks and there is a way for all applications that use those frameworks. I don't know if recent versions of BBEdit use those frameworks. Good Luck, Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com) -- 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.
