Comments on: SubEthaEdit 3

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 17:11:33 +0000

Sure, lets say you have this document:

if foo:
   do_the_foo()
 if bar:
   do_the_bar()

You do some refactoring and want to store foo and bar in an opts dictionary instead. While you could accomplish this with regular expressions, it's not exactly easy to use, and prone to error:

s/(foo|bar)[^(]/opts.$1/

I had to test that in a shell and do a bunch of editing to get that to work right. Maybe I just suck ;)

With block editing, you'd do a disjoint block edit on the first and third lines and type:

opts.

Which would result in this document:

if opts.foo:
   do_the_foo()
 if opts.bar:
   do_the_bar()

This gets much more useful if you're working with more than two lines, of course ;)

By: Leo S

Leo S — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:45:35 +0000

I’m trying to think of a scenario where I would want to change several lines with the exact same text…. Can you give an example?

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:19:55 +0000

I thought that disjoint ones were new, somehow.

I only found out about it after upgrading to 3.

By: Augie Fackler

Augie Fackler — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:20:44 +0000

Blockedits (even disjoint ones) are not new in SEE 3, just to clarify…