[TF] Grabbing a chunk of text delimited by prompts

[johans at stack.nl (J. v. Selst)]

Hi Brent,

Brent Neal wrote:
> What is not clear is how to tell my writer to stop. The 
> only delimiter I have is that I receive a new prompt.  I could put 
> something in the prompt hook that disables the writer,

You can add an extra hook (/def -h) that is activated from within the
body of this new macro and uses -n1 so that it is triggered only once
and then removed again. If you add -F (and optionally a higher priority
with -p) then it shouldn't interfere with other macro's that trigger on
the same text.

> As an aside:  It'd be tres cool if someone hacked in PCRE support for 
> matching. I do a lot of Perl hacking, and having to 'switch gears' to 
> write regexps for TF is always mind warping.

According to Ken's mail from November last year, TF 5 does include PCRE
support. Unfortunately TF5 is still not available. I would like to see
an alpha pre-release soon (even if it is buggy as hell, it will motive
others to help Ken).


Ciao,
Johan