Select to Beginning of Paragraph

[Blue4ce]

Hi,

I am trying to copy textpad's built-in behaviour in ultraedit 16.00.

I have the text as below
step 1: When I place my cursor at the second h of line 11, and press ctrl+shift+Up arrow, I want the selection as below

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step 2: Then when I press ctrl+shift+up arrow again, I want the selection to extend one paragraph upward, as

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I am using the macro,

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
PerlReOn
Find RegExp Up Select "^\s*\n"
IfFound
Else
SelectToTop
EndIf

with a keyboard hotkey = ctrl+shift+Up Arrow

But at step 2, it doesn't extend the selection, instead selects only the above paragraph as

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Can someone help with the macro ?

[bernd]

interestingly for me it works in UltraEdit 10.10c with the macro slightly modified:

Code: Select all

InsertMode
ColumnModeOff
HexOff
UnixReOff
Find RegExp Up Select "%[ ^t]++^p"
IfFound
Else
SelectToTop
EndIf


[Mofi]

Bernd is right, his macro using the UltraEdit regex engine works, also with UE v16.00.0.1032.

I tested this manually and found out that when using the Perl regular expression engine for a Find Select upwards, the existing selection is not recognized because of wrong cursor location after searching upwards (at bottom end of selection (= beginnig of search) instead at top end (= end of search)) while doing multiple Find Select downwards with the Perl engine works. With UltraEdit and Unix regex engines both directions work. I reported this issue by email to IDM support. As workaround use the macro written by Bernd.

Edited on 2010-08-31: The problem with Find Select upwards not retaining existing selection when using the Perl regular expression engine was fixed with UltraEdit v16.20.0.1009.

[Blue4ce]

Thanks Bernd and Mofi.