How to process multiple selections?

[Yang Yang]

Hello, could you kindly give me an example of processing multiple selections in the macro? For example, suppose “abc” and “xyz” are selected in the document, and I want to change their text to “[abc]” and “[xyz]”, respectively. Thanks!

[Yutaka Emura]

If the Auto-Complete Brackets/Quotation Marks option is set, you can simply type [.

However, I know you want to write a macro to process multiple selection scenarios. Here is an example:

sInsertBefore = "[";
sInsertAfter = "]";
var axT = [];
var ayT = [];
var axB = [];
var ayB = [];

Redraw = false;
CombineHistory = true;
nCount = document.selection.Count;   // retrieves the number of selections
for( i = 1; i <= nCount; ++i ) {     // loop through multiple selections
	x = document.selection.GetTopPointX( eePosLogical, i );  // retrieve x of the left side of each selection
	axT.push( x );
	y = document.selection.GetTopPointY( eePosLogical, i );  // retrieve y of the left side of each selection
	ayT.push( y );
	x = document.selection.GetBottomPointX( eePosLogical, i );  // retrieve x of the right side of each selection
	axB.push( x );
	y = document.selection.GetBottomPointY( eePosLogical, i );  // retrieve y of the right side of each selection
	ayB.push( y );
}

for( i = nCount - 1; i >= 0; --i ) {
	document.selection.SetActivePoint( eePosLogical, axB[i], ayB[i] );   // set the cursor to the right side of each selection
	document.selection.Text = sInsertAfter;    // insert ']'
	document.selection.SetActivePoint( eePosLogical, axT[i], ayT[i] );   // set the cursor to the left side of each selection
	document.selection.Text = sInsertBefore;   // insert '['
}

[Yang Yang]

Thank you very much! More steps that I expected, honestly.

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