Act on selected text

[JayPM]

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]

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]

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]

Try this:


Macro > Edit Macro > Modify

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

[mrainey56]

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

[JayPM]

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

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

-Jay

[mrainey56]

Somehow you turned off Unix mode.

[ASTTMan]

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