http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/index.lasso TextWrangler talk is an email discussion forum for the TextWrangler product from Bare Bones Software, Inc. en-us Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:45:46 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1852 will to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-30 07:45:46 - I'm not familiar with the "&" approach! For a regular-expression method, I'd use find: ^\( replace: \r( "^" matches "start-of-line" "\(" matches a literal left-paren (usually parens, without the backslash, start a sub-expression for matching) "... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:06:54 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1851 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-29 23:06:54 - Found it - "&" - sorry. On Jul 30, 1:22 pm, PaulL <luc...@cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > I'm trying find a way to insert a blank line (or lines) above text > that starts with a particular character. E.g., Every line that starts > with a left parenthe... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:22:31 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1850 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-29 22:22:31 - I'm trying find a way to insert a blank line (or lines) above text that starts with a particular character. E.g., Every line that starts with a left parenthesis needs to have a blank line inserted above it. I don't know what to specify as my replaceme... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:38:30 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1849 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-29 18:38:30 - Apologies - I reached for the forum a little to hastily. Problem resolved. Thanks. Paul On Jul 29, 6:15 pm, Tom Robinson <barefootg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Works for me. What's the replacement pattern you have? > > Sent from my iPad > > On ... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:05:23 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1848 Christopher Bort to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-29 15:05:23 - A simpler grep pattern to just strip the date/time info from the beginnings of the lines, along with white space characters on either side of it would be: ^\s*\[.*\]\s* and replace with an empty string (i.e. replace with nothing). Since the da... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:46:48 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1847 Mike Blume to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-29 10:46:48 - I'm editing a large Python project and have it open in a disk browser. I have auto-expand tabs turned on in my default editor settings, and in my Python settings. However, when I edit a file in the disk browser, auto-expand tabs is off, and I can't tur... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:15:19 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1846 Tom Robinson to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-29 03:15:19 - Works for me. What's the replacement pattern you have? Sent from my iPad On 29/07/2010, at 13:49, PaulL <luckas@cyllene.uwa.edu.au> wrote: > I'm trying to search for this text: > > (402) Chloe > > so my search is: > > \(402\) Chloe >... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:02:04 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1845 will to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-28 19:02:04 - You might try it without "grep" enabled...? My take is that you're searching for a larger pattern and this is just part of it, is that right? If so, the problem may be elsewhere in your grep pattern. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:49 PM, PaulL <luckas@c... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:49:00 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1844 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-28 18:49:00 - I'm trying to search for this text: (402) Chloe so my search is: \(402\) Chloe but I'm getting this error "The replacement string couldn t be computed, because the previous Grep search did not succeed (application error code: 12003)" --... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:38:58 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1843 Elias to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-27 18:38:58 - I noticed that the "Warn before closing a window containing multiple documents" feature doesn't always work. If I have a bunch of documents open in a window, and I try to close the window, it asks me if I am sure. But if I pick the quit command, or ... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:42:40 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1842 Jim to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-28 03:42:40 - Thanks!! That worked. I do appreciate the assistance! On Jul 27, 4:09 pm, "w...@serensoft.com" <w...@serensoft.com> wrote: > You should be able to do something like > > find: \b(\d\d\d)(\d\d\d)(\d\d\d\d)\b > > replace: \1-\2-\3 > > The \b is to... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:25:53 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1841 Jim to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-28 05:25:53 - Thanks, that will help in the future!! On Jul 27, 4:39 pm, Tom Robinson <barefootg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jim, welcome to the group. > > Will's given you a good answer. In case you haven't done much with regular expressions before: the \d looks... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:44:58 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1840 Tom Robinson to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-28 00:44:58 - On 2010-07-28, at 18:10, PaulL wrote: > Probably a slightly dumb question. Can't seem to find an easy way to > delete a blank lines (or lines) before or after some specified text. Easiest way is to select the text and blank lines, copy, then paste ... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:10:49 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1839 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-27 23:10:49 - Hi, Probably a slightly dumb question. Can't seem to find an easy way to delete a blank lines (or lines) before or after some specified text. Am trawling through the manual as I write this, but if anyone cares to put me out of my misery, please fe... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:05:25 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1838 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-27 23:05:25 - Thanks for the excellent replies - all makes sense, and I really do appreciate the help. Paul On Jul 27, 4:42 am, Tom Robinson <barefootg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2010-07-26, at 16:11, PaulL wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > I wish to take l... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:39:23 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1837 Tom Robinson to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-27 13:39:23 - Hi Jim, welcome to the group. Will's given you a good answer. In case you haven't done much with regular expressions before: the \d looks for a digit (0-9), so we have 10 of them--one for each digit of the phone number. The brackets group parts of t... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:09:50 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1836 will to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-27 13:09:50 - You should be able to do something like find: \b(\d\d\d)(\d\d\d)(\d\d\d\d)\b replace: \1-\2-\3 The \b is to make sure you have a word-boundary, so if there are longer digit strings they won't be interpreted as numbers. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 ... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:40:02 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1835 trillich to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-27 10:40:02 - We'd like to tweak the Perl language definition to include modern subroutine attributes such as "sub blah : Attr('this') AnotherAttr('that') { return; }" which is currently ignored by the default TextWrangler spec. But there's no Perl.bblm showing u... Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:27:37 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1834 Jim to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-27 11:27:37 - Hi, New here so hello!! I have a question regarding grep search and replace. I have a found set of phone numbers that are 10 digits with no seperator (example: 5015555555) Is there a way to insert a dash between the 3rd and 4th digit and the 6th and 7... Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:42:10 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1833 Tom Robinson to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-26 13:42:10 - On 2010-07-26, at 16:11, PaulL wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to take long technical discussions held in Skype, and turn them > into notes that can be reviewed later. > > In essence I'd like to remove all the date and name information, and > the left ... Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:53:01 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1832 Jean-Christophe Helary to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-26 00:53:01 - On 26 juil. 10, at 16:50, PaulL wrote: > Just to update. I have managed to delete the date and name information > using grep. One thing though, the deleted text is replaced by a single > space - in other words, removing [............] above, replaces... Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:50:19 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1831 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-26 00:50:19 - Just to update. I have managed to delete the date and name information using grep. One thing though, the deleted text is replaced by a single space - in other words, removing [............] above, replaces it with a space. Is there a way to avoid this?... Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:11:28 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1830 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-25 21:11:28 - Hi, I wish to take long technical discussions held in Skype, and turn them into notes that can be reviewed later. In essence I'd like to remove all the date and name information, and the left over space. A snippet might look something like this... Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:15:46 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1829 Thomas Fischer to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-25 10:15:46 - Paul, it depends on what you wish to accomplish. One way would be to create columns with the appropriate tab marks between them. You can open a text like that in either a word processor or a spread sheet program (saving it with a suffix of .csv usuall... Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:50:09 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1828 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-22 22:50:09 - I have to create a report with specific column spacing. TW displays cursor position in the status bar, but that seems to be about it. Are there any other more sophisticated ways of displaying and formatting for specific column spacing requirements? ... Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:10:44 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1827 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-22 22:10:44 - Thanks to all - much appreciated. On Jul 23, 2:49 am, Christopher Bort <top...@thehundredacre.net> wrote: > On 07/22/10 08:46, leew1...@gmail.com (Lee Smith) wrote: > > >Will Process lines containing work for this? > > Sure. Use the same grep pat... Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:49:04 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1826 Christopher Bort to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-22 11:49:04 - On 07/22/10 08:46, leew1943@gmail.com (Lee Smith) wrote: >Will Process lines containing work for this? Sure. Use the same grep pattern and select 'Delete matched lines'. Process lines vs. Find & Replace is six of one and a half dozen of the othe... Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:46:46 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1825 Lee Smith to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-22 08:46:46 - Will Process lines containing work for this? On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > On 22 juil. 10, at 13:07, PaulL wrote: > >> I would like to search and replace (or in this case delete) sections >> of text that begin ... Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:45:10 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1824 Lee Smith to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-22 08:45:10 - Will Process lines containing work for this? On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:57 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote: > > On 22 juil. 10, at 13:07, PaulL wrote: > >> I would like to search and replace (or in this case delete) sections >> of text that begin ... Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:57:30 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1823 Jean-Christophe Helary to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-22 05:57:30 - On 22 juil. 10, at 13:07, PaulL wrote: > I would like to search and replace (or in this case delete) sections > of text that begin with the same words, but are not entirely the same. > For example: > > Discovery date : 1907 03 21 > Discovery site... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:07:49 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1822 PaulL to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-21 21:07:49 - Hi, I would like to search and replace (or in this case delete) sections of text that begin with the same words, but are not entirely the same. For example: Discovery date : 1907 03 21 Discovery site : Heidelberg Discoverer(s) : Kopff, A. I w... Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:37:01 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1821 Tom Robinson to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-17 19:37:01 - This works for me, can you give some more details? Text: 00:02:01.390,00:02:04.570 Until this year in California I did a bike fitting with the guys, x Search string: (\d+:\d+:\d+)\.\d+,(\d+:\d+:\d+)\.\d+(\r.*\r.*)$ Replace string: 1: ... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:13:26 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1820 Aaron Vogel to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-15 11:13:26 - So I've sorted out how to find mixed English-Japanese lines of text with the following search: *(\d+:\d+:\d+)\.\d+,(\d+:\d+:\d+)\.\d+(\r.*\r.*)$* This is convenient because it also works for only English and only Japanese text, as well as for sing... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:59:21 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1819 Aaron Vogel to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-15 09:59:21 - Well, I solved the Chinese problem: \S will find any non-whitespace character which means it should find western and eastern characters. Problem is it seems to not work in mixed western-eastern language cases - such as a product name in English among C... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:30:50 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1818 Aaron Vogel to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-15 10:30:50 - Thanks Tom, Yeah, that's how I've been problem solving... search for a little piece, then incorporate that into the larger string, double check it still works and move on. The only difference between the two is that one find a double line of text w... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:12:44 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1817 Tom Robinson to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-15 10:12:44 - I like your description about knowing enough to be dangerous 8-) I would start from basics on your Japanese text: does \d find a digit OK? Does .* find the text OK? Then build up the expression slowly from there. The most obvious candidate to me fo... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:42:22 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1816 apv to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-15 09:42:22 - Perhaps, but then that leads to another question: how do I then deal with that? On Jul 15, 5:55 am, Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 juil. 10, at 09:07, apv wrote: > > > Grep Find: > > (\d+:\d+:\d+)\.\d+,(\... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:55:20 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1815 Jean-Christophe Helary to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-15 05:55:20 - On 15 juil. 10, at 09:07, apv wrote: > Grep Find: > (\d+:\d+:\d+)\.\d+,(\d+:\d+:\d+)\.\d+(\r.*\r\w+.*)$|(\d+:\d+:\d+)\.\d+, > (\d+:\d+:\d+)\.\d+(\r.*\r)$ > > This will find 1 or 2 line versions of the sample text in English, > Spanish, French, et... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:07:21 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1814 apv to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-14 17:07:21 - Hey guys, hoping someone can provide an answer as the standard web/ discussion search hasn't yielded me any success. 1) Does Grep in Textwrangler have the capacity to deal with Japanese and Chinese characters? I have transcription files that I need t... Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:07:29 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1813 Michael to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-13 12:07:29 - I'm interested in finding out if this feature is available too. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "TextWrangler Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to textwrangler@googlegroups.co... Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:39:27 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1812 Jase Watson to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-12 22:39:27 - Great, that'll do - thank you!!! On Jun 25, 12:50 am, Mark Slater <mark.sla...@gmail.com> wrote: > One quick "fix" would be to go to Preferences, and in the > "Application" window, un-tick "Automatically refresh documents as they > change on disk" ... Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:53:01 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1811 Tom Robinson to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-06 17:53:01 - If you look at the built-in help for this preference it says: When this option is on, TextWrangler inserts an appropriate number of spaces instead of a tab character every time you press the Tab key. So pasting a tab will leave it intact. You c... Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:48:28 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1810 Tom Robinson to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-06 17:48:28 - Check out appendix C, Codeless Language Modules, in the built-in manual; though don't know how you're planning to edit FileMaker scripts? Sent from my iPhone On 6/07/2010, at 5:31, Karen <klstella@gmail.com> wrote: > It would be great to define o... Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:08:32 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1809 Hyler to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-06 09:08:32 - Hi. Is there a way to quickly insert a hard tab into a document if TextWrangler has been set to auto-expand tabs? I'm trying to edit some makefiles and it's mighty inconvenient to change the tab preferences just for one document. Thanks! -- ... Mon, 05 Jul 2010 10:31:25 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1808 Karen to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-07-05 10:31:25 - It would be great to define own, or load templates for other scripting languages (FileMaker's for instance). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "TextWrangler Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this gro... Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:27:58 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1807 jokoon to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-06-25 12:27:58 - Hello, First to tell you I love textwrangler ! I would obviously buy BBEdit if I was using it long term or professionnaly ! I have just something to say about it, and smultron is even worse about what I'm gonna say: it lacks source code colours, o... Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:50:06 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1806 Mark Slater to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-06-24 07:50:06 - One quick "fix" would be to go to Preferences, and in the "Application" window, un-tick "Automatically refresh documents as they change on disk" On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Jase Watson <jase@tomatosource.com.au> wrote: > Hi, > I get this error... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:12:50 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1805 Jase Watson to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-06-23 22:12:50 - Hi, I get this error using Text Wrangler (also happens with BBEdit) when working on files that are attached as SMB volumes to my MacBook Pro running Snow Leopard. Wondering if others have come across this? It's extremely frustrating as it happens... Thu, 24 Jun 2010 04:57:25 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1804 CleveD to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-06-24 04:57:25 - Thanks. That works perfectly and now I understand word boundaries better. On Jun 23, 6:13 pm, Thomas Fischer <fischer...@aon.at> wrote: > Hi, > > you can try > > replace "\b(\d\d?)(\d\d)\b" using "\1:\2" > (see TextWrangler User Manual p. 137). ... Thu, 24 Jun 2010 03:15:44 -0700 http://www.listsearch.com/TextWrangler/Message/index.lasso?1803 justjoan to TextWrangler Talk on 2010-06-24 03:15:44 - Hello, That's it! Thanks so much. It was an effort to FIND soft wrap text, but turning it off gave me the instantaneous response I love about TextWrangler compares. File sizes are 250KB, by the way. justjoan -- You received this message beca...