Markers and Line selection - Need Help.

Submitted by FatDog on Friday, 15 April, 2011 - 16:45

Hello. I am a developer trying to switch from Years of using Multi-Edit/Brief to JEdit.

I need a macro that will select a range of lines so I can then TAB or Shift-Tab or Delete or search within the selected area.

My old macro would do this:

* Look for the ending tag, set a marker.
* Search backwards for the starting tag, set a marker.
* Go to the end marker and start line text selection
* Jump to starting marker so that all lines from End to Start are selected.
* Stop

This then returns control to me, but leaves many lines selected so I can indent or tab or delete or copy, etc.

I am looking through the textArea API. I see deprecated calls like "getMarkLine()" which look like the functions I want - but it's deprecated.

Basically - interacting with Markers and selecting text - I'm just not getting how to do it. Any advice would be helpful.

a way

by Robert Schwenn on Sat, 16/04/2011 - 20:07

You don't need markers. If You have placed the caret at a desired position, You can get it's absolute offset (relative to buffer start) via textArea.getCaretPosition()...

You can create a selection via: textArea.setSelection(new Selection.Rect(StartOffset, EndOffset))

Thanks...

by FatDog on Sun, 17/04/2011 - 15:23

Thank you for the response.

I found the functions that give me the line numbers after I search (textArea.getCaretLine()).

(Rats - the jEdit 4.2 API link is giving me 404 errors)

From a macro I want to do a select Line Range (like the menu Edit - More Selections - Select Line Range).

BUT then I want to move the cursor to the startLine and center the scroll area so I can see the start of what is selected. (I often then have to create a Search/Replace regex and seeing the start helps me see what to look for).

Something like this:

SearchAndReplace.setSearchString("something");

SearchAndReplace.find(view);

startLine = textArea.getCaretLine();

SearchAndReplace.setSearchString("something_end");

endLine = textArea.getCaretLine();

// HERE IS WHERE I GET STUMPED

textArea.setSelection(new Selection.LineRange(startLine, endLine));

textArea.goToLine(startLine - 1);

textArea.scrollAndCenterCaret();

Any advice on how to create a new Selection with 2 line numbers - but let me move the caret to the start?

move first

by Robert Schwenn on Sun, 17/04/2011 - 15:51

One option is to move the caret to the desired position before the selection is done via:
...
endOffset = textArea.getLineStartOffset(textArea.getCaretLine());
textArea.setSelection(new Selection.Range(startOffset, endOffset));

Thank you

by FatDog on Tue, 28/02/2012 - 23:19

I do a reverse search for the starting "{--------" separator and do:

startLine = textArea.getLineStartOffset(textArea.getCaretLine());

Then I move down 1 line and do a forward search for the next "{-----" separator and do this:

endLine = textArea.getLineStartOffset(textArea.getCaretLine());

Then your suggestion works great:

textArea.setSelection(new Selection.Range(startLine, endLine));

Thank you.

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