On 28 October 2017 at 07:34, Len Philpot <[email protected]> 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.
If the change is only at start/end of the line use regex ^ for start of line and $ for end of line and replace in selection, ie replace ^ with prepend text in selection then replace $ with append text in selection. Do not have multiline set. > > Thanks. > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 28 October 2017 at 06:43, Len Philpot <[email protected]> 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 >> > [email protected] >> > Sent from webmail >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Users mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > -- > > Len Philpot > [email protected] > Sent from webmail > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
