![]() I almost thought I was doomed when I struggled to find a way to do this in smultron after it had been helping me in lots of other ways. fixing SI units to always have a space between the digits and the unit = e.g. I have been using smultron 3.1.2 for my thesis and it has been handy for consistency - e.g. It's about $2,000 a month all told - when shall I expect your first check?įri Oct 17 11:23:57 2008: 4652 GwynethLlewelynĪt least on Smultron 3.5, regexp search & replacing uses the $1 as placeholder. Happy to take 'em all out if you'd like to step up and pay for the time and expense of running this site. I think you still have room to make your site a bit more obnoxious.įri Apr 27 14:18:24 2007: 2979 TonyLawrence I also trialed BBEdit, and TextWrangler, and settled on TextMate.Ĭould you please sprinkle in some more ads within your articles. According to the website, you can run code right in the editor, and it has the regex of grep in it's search/replace. When I am not using vi, I am using TextMate, and have only scratched the surface of what it can do. I suppose if you must have a graphical editor, and don't mind one that has lousy documentation, then Smultron might be useful to you. That's undoubtedly the most annoying part of Smultron: no documentation. There's also supposedly syntax coloring that supposedly shows unclosed tags how to trigger that eluded me. Smultron can do automatic indenting and supposedly can indicate matching braces in code, but I couldn't figure out how you ask it to show the matching brace and again the documentation is non-existent. I found auto completion more annoying than useful, so turned it off. Its list of words to suggest, making it very easy to keepĬompounding the mistake. Also, if you haveĪccidentally mistyped something, Smultron will add that to That feature does make it difficult to type html tags, though: if you start when you execute a search and replace SmultronĪsks if you are sure. Worse, Smultron is worried that you might have made a Smultron's "Help" link is entirely mute on this subject. ![]() "find" part matches ".*", but there's no apparent way Recognizes regular expressions, so you can say that the So how would you do that in Smultron? Well. That may look awful to the uninitiated, but it reallyīreaks down very simply. I want to change them into hyperlinks, so ![]() Writing posts like this, I may paste in a list ofĪnd so on. This is usually where editors fail to impress me. The first thing I wanted to check out was search and replace. Yet for the purposes of this review, I'm actually using Want to do quickly and efficiently, so why use anything else? Everywhere else, I can count onīut it is also force of habit. Vi is always available, except on Windows, of course, but I don't write posts on Windows and certainly don't do any Windows scripting. Whether it's writing scripts or posts for this web site, vi is my tool of choice
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