On October 11, 2019 3:26:56 AM Gustave Stresen-Reuter
<[email protected]> wrote:
What else would you use discontiguous selections for (serious
question)?
Lack of multiple selection is one of several things that make me jealous
of VSCode/Atom/SublimeText users. In one of those editors, I would
change the types of some variables in a struct like this:
- select a word (say, `uint16_t`)
- hit a key combo to also select the next instance of the selected word
- and the next one
- and the next one
- ok, I've selected all the instances of `uint16_t` in this struct that
I want to change
- type: `uint32_t`
This is different from editing _all_ instance of some text. If I’m
changing a few variables in one struct from being 16-bit to 32-bit, that
doesn’t mean I want to change every single `uint16_t` in the file.
I can get close with current BBEdit like this:
- select a word (say, `uint16_t`)
- hit Cmd-E (to set find text)
- type: `uint32_t`
- hit Opt-Shift-Left to select the word I just typed
- hit Cmd-Opt-E (to set replace text)
- hit Cmd-G
- hit Cmd-T
- hit Cmd-T
- hit Cmd-T
This is… okay… I guess… but the keyboard acrobatics are a little
stressful on my fingers, and I don’t like that I have to enter the
replacement text first, before selecting all the instances that I want
to change. It’s conceptually cleaner for me to “grab” all the text
I want to change, and then change it all at once.
If all the words I want to change are on adjacent lines and lined up
vertically, I can use a rectangular selection and this works pretty well
(as long as I remember to use Cmd-Z rather than Backspace if I make a
mistake). I wish I could do this even when things are not lined up
nicely.
Does that make sense?
-sam
On 11 Oct 2019, at 3:26, Gustave Stresen-Reuter wrote:
Not sure if this is what you want but you can edit all instances of
found
text. Not at my computer so can't consult the docs but it is possible.
What else would you use discontiguous selections for (serious
question)?
Ted
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 3:45 AM Tom Robinson <[email protected]>
wrote:
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On 2019-10-11, at 14:20, 'Tom' via BBEdit Talk
<[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey guys,
as much as I like the Playground thingy for regexen, it’s nothing
we
didn’t do already on regex101 for the last years.
So, instead of those gimmicky (though nice) additions, I really
would
like to see non-contigous selection. As almost any other text program
on
macOS can do.
Any thoughts/timeline?
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