I don’t really know how to articulate this.
Maybe: opening the dialog box breaks flow.
Or: it feels more _natural_ to do this with multiple selections.
In a sense, it’s more of a “direct manipulation” than using the
find/replace tool.
Also: selecting a large range of text (a complete function, including
the prototype, etc.) is often awkward, requiring use of the mouse or a
lot of fiddling with arrow keys. The multiple selection workflow is
completely keyboard-based.
I’m not disputing that there may be ways to achieve the same goal in
BBEdit currently. My claim is that multiple selection has advantages
over the current methods.
Hope this helps.
-sam
On 11 Oct 2019, at 10:58, bruce linde wrote:
wait…
1. select your ‘want to change things in this block of text’
section.
2. set your ‘find ____’ text and your ‘replace with ______’
text
3. check the ‘search and replace in selected text only’ checkbox.
unless i’m missing something?
bruce
On Oct 11, 2019, at 7:48 AM, Sam Hathaway <[email protected]
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On October 11, 2019 3:26:56 AM Gustave Stresen-Reuter
[email protected] <mailto:[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]
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On 2019-10-11, at 14:20, 'Tom' via BBEdit Talk
<[email protected] <mailto:[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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