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  • #10372
    Stefan
    Participant

    Hi Yutaka, i have an problem with replacing text
    in an column/block selection from an macro.

    Tested with 11.0.5 and 11.1.7

    My problem:
    if i take the block selected text,
    and manipulate it with an macro,
    the macro works correct
    but the text replacement in the document
    replaces all selected lines
    with the replacement of the first line only.

    Example:

    Having an text like

    First Line
    Second Line
    Third Line

    and an code like

    sel = document.selection.text;
    Lines = sel.split("rn");
    out = "";

    for(L=0,E=Lines.length; L<E; L++){
    line = Lines[L];
    out += line.replace("i", "X") + "rn";
    }

    alert(out);
    document.selection.text = out;

    Test 1 – works fine:
    – Select the whole text with line selection mode
    First Line
    Second Line
    Third Line
    – execute the macro
    – the MsgBox shows the wanted result
    – the lines are correct manipulated
    FXrst Line
    Second LXne
    ThXrd Line

    Test 2 – my problem:
    – Select only the first words in column selection mode
    First Line
    Second Line
    Third Line
    – execute the macro
    – the MsgBox shows the wanted result
    – BUT the lines in the selection are all replaced by the content of the first replacement:
    FXrst Line
    FXrstd Line
    FXrst Line

    Expected was to get:
    FXrst Line
    Second Line
    ThXrd Line

    Question:
    what should i modify to let this work as indented?

    I can imagine workarounds like
    – pos = get the right column pos of the selection
    – process each line
    – – – tempA = line.substring(0,pos)
    – – – tempB = line.slice(pos)
    – – – manipulate tempA
    – out = tempA+tempB

    …but …is that really as indented ?

    .

    #10918
    Stefan
    Participant

     
     
    This is still the same with EmEditor v12.0.11.

    Since Yutaka didn’t response on this
    I do not know if is this an bug?

    If yes, can this be improved please?

    If No, what would be the indicated workaround please?

    Stefan wrote:
    Hi Yutaka, i have an problem with replacing text
    in an column/block selection from an macro.

    Tested with 11.0.5 and 11.1.7

    My problem:
    if i take the block selected text,
    and manipulate it with an macro,
    the macro works correct
    but the text replacement in the document
    replaces all selected lines
    with the replacement of the first line only.

     

    #10924
    Yutaka Emura
    Keymaster

    Hello Stefan,

    I am sincerely sorry for my delayed responses, but I am spending much of time these days to develop a new major version of EmEditor.

    Currently, this is the specification because macros can’t paste text as a box format. The only way to work around this is using the Clipboard like this:


    sel = document.selection.text;
    Lines = sel.split("rn");
    out = "";

    for(L=0,E=Lines.length; L<E; L++){
    line = Lines[L];
    out += line.replace("i", "X") + "rn";
    }

    alert(out);

    clipboardData.setData("BoxText", out);
    document.selection.Paste(eeCopyUnicode);

    I hope this helps.
    Thanks!

    #10943
    Stefan
    Participant

     
     
    Woohoo :-D

    That works! Many thanks.

    But leads to next question:
    how to determine between line and block selection?

    The answer I found in the help:
    EmEditor Help – EmEditor Macro Reference – Selection Object
    Mode Property

    So I can use code like this:


    nMode = document.selection.Mode;
    switch( nMode & eeModeMask ) {
    case eeModeStream:
    alert( "Stream selection mode.");
    work();
    document.selection.text = out;
    break;
    case eeModeLine:
    alert( "Line selection mode." );
    work();
    document.selection.text = out;
    break;
    case eeModeBox:
    alert( "Vertical selection mode.");
    oldCB = clipboardData.getData("Text"); //store
    work();
    clipboardData.setData("BoxText", out);
    document.selection.Paste(eeCopyUnicode);
    clipboardData.setData("Text", oldCB); //re set
    break;
    }
    if( nMode & eeModeKeyboard ) alert( "And also the keyboard selection mode." );


    function work(){
    sel = document.selection.text;
    Lines = sel.split("rn");
    out = "";
    for(L=0,E=Lines.length; L<E; L++){
    line = Lines[L];
    out += line.replace("i", "X");
    if(L<E-1)out += "rn";
    }
    alert(out);
    }

    Fun! 8-)

    … I gonna try this now for my real work.

    Thank you much Yutaka!

     

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