Re: [ jEdit-users ] Combining selection with search

[Dale A. <da...@da...>]

This sounded familiar, so I looked around and found this macro that I wrote
a couple of years ago. This also selects the search term, you could change
the "addToSelection" line to something like addToSelection(new
Selection.Range(start, start + end - toFind.length()) if you don't want the
search term selected also.

import java.util.regex.*;
void selectTo()
{
start = textArea.getCaretPosition();
toFind = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(jEdit.getActiveView(), "Enter search
term:", "Select To", JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE);
text = buffer.getText(start, buffer.getLength() - start);
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(toFind, Pattern.DOTALL);
        Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text);
        if (matcher.find()) {
            end = matcher.end();
            textArea.selectNone();
            textArea.addToSelection(new Selection.Range(start, start +
end));
        }
}

selectTo();


On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Eric Ladner <eri...@gm...> wrote:

> Not that I know of from the search dialog, but you could set a marker with
> short cut (Ctrl-t then one char for shortcut name), search for your text,
> then Ctrl-k (followed by the single char shortcut from before) to swap the
> position of the marker and the carat, then Ctrl-u (followed by shortcut
> char again) to select from the new carat position to the marker.
>
> It'll prompt you in the status bar for the shortcut character.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:02 AM Edward Diener <eld...@tr...>
> wrote:
>
>> I often want to select text based on the position the caret is on and
>> something I am searching for from that position. As an example suppose
>> my caret is at some position but I want to select text from that
>> position to the next character 's' I find through the Search and Replace
>> dialog. Is there a way to do such a thing in jedit ?
>>
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