[Geany-Users] Prepend / append text?

[Matthew Brush]

On 2017-10-27 02:34 PM, Len Philpot wrote:
> Yes, that's what I meant: Select text, then prepend and/or append arbitrary
> text at the beginning and/or end of each line in the selection.
> 

You mean like SublimeText's multiple cursor insertion thing?

Regards,
Matthew Brush

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> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 28 October 2017 at 06:43, Len Philpot <lphilpot01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is there a way to insert (at line head) and / or append (to line tail)
>>> arbitrary text strings to a selection? I've used another editor with that
>>> feature and it's pretty handy. If not, is there a way to pass values to a
>>> custom format command? I have a shell script that could be invoked, but I
>>> don't see a way to enter the pre / post text.
>>>
>>> Maybe I just need to come up with a regex to do it...
>>
>> Not sure what you want, if you want to replace a manual selection with
>> itself plus a pre/apppend text, then I don't think there is such a
>> capability.
>>
>> You can of course use search/replace to do it with a regex so long as
>> the "selection" (ie the search string) is the same.
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> --
>>> Len Philpot
>>> lphilpot01 at gmail.com
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