Act on selected text

JayPM · Feb 25, 2005#12005-02-25T16:03+00:00

I want to write a macro that acts on each line of the selected block of text.
If I select three lines, I want the macro to add a few characters to the beginning of each line. Anybody willing to provide a little help on how to do this?

Thanks in advance.

JayPM

mrainey56 · Feb 25, 2005#22005-02-25T18:25+00:00

This is the general idea. If you leave the (.) out of the Find string, it puts the "added" string in twice. I don't know why.

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
UnixReOn
Find RegExp "^(.)"
Replace All SelectText "added\1"

JayPM · Feb 25, 2005#32005-02-25T20:28+00:00

Hmm.. so, I used your macro text and gave it a try.
This is my macro:

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
UnixReOn
Find RegExp "^()"
Replace All SelectText "//"
(add the two slashes to the beginning of each line - I'm editing
pascal source code, and I want to block comment lines out using UE)

In a source file I selected 4 lines and invoked the macro
and get a "Search String Not Found" error. Did I miss
something??

mrainey56 · Feb 25, 2005#42005-02-25T22:14+00:00

Try this:

Macro > Edit Macro > Modify

Check the "Continue If A Find With Replace Not Found" box

Feb 25, 2005#52005-02-25T22:15+00:00

Also, you left the period out in the search string, and the \1 in the replace string.

JayPM · Feb 25, 2005#62005-02-25T22:33+00:00

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
UnixReOff
Find RegExp "^(.)"
Replace All SelectText "//\1"

(and I made the switch) - but still nothing working.

-Jay

mrainey56 · Feb 25, 2005#72005-02-25T22:42+00:00

Somehow you turned off Unix mode.

ASTTMan · Feb 28, 2005#82005-02-28T13:56+00:00

Do you realize that if you have syntax highlighting for Pascal, UE has a command to comment out (or uncomment) a block of text?

I added one line to my Wordfile.txt:

/L10"Pascal" Line Comment = // File Extensions = .psc

(I wasn't sure about the extension for Pascal!)

I made a test file with the .psc extension, then highlighted some lines, and did Edit | Comment Add.

There are probably full descriptions of Pascal that you can download to do all of the highlighting.

Dave