On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:50:55 +0100, Joerg Desch jd.vvd@web.de wrote:
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:07:00 -0700 chuck ctl@arrowtwins.com wrote:
Suppose you want to change the variable names so they all have 2-digit numbers leading with a zero; so the first line would read char *fill_01 = "Chapter 1";
Both examples could be done very easily with Geany using a column selection together with find+replace. IMO it's much better than a zero-width selection.
A nice feature for a "fill column selection" would be "auto-increment". So if I copy a variable several times, ...
char *fill_1 = "Chapter 1"; char *fill_1 = "Chapter 1"; char *fill_1 = "Chapter 1"; char *fill_1 = "Chapter 1"; char *fill_1 = "Chapter 1";
..it would be very handy to select the 1's as column block, press the magic key and all the 1's would be replaced like this. The auto-increment has to read the first character (the '1' in this case) and use this as starting point.
char *fill_1 = "Chapter 1"; char *fill_2 = "Chapter 1"; char *fill_3 = "Chapter 1"; char *fill_4 = "Chapter 1"; char *fill_5 = "Chapter 1";
This is just an idea. But I think this better should be plugin or a LUA script.
Or any other kind of script/program which can read text from stdin and print the changed text on stdout. Then you can use the "Send selection to" command in Geany(*). The only thing you have to do, is to write this script/program that handles the input, mangles it in some way and prints it out. Geany will take care of the selection handling.
(*) which should be used with care on Windows, it might work, it might fail.
Regards, Enrico