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Hoof
Hoof

Reputation: 1758

sublime text select first in each line

In Vim there's a really nice feature to find/replace the first occurrence in each line. This is afaik actually the default behavior. How can I obtain the same behavior in sublime text?

I need to be able to mark/find the FIRST (and the first only!) character, e.g. '=', in each line, so that I easily can mark/copy/cut what's before and what's after that specific character. Mind you, there might be many of this specific character in each line.

Concrete example:

I have a long list of java properties in the form:

my.property.link1=<a href="asdfs">Link 1</a>
my.property.link22=<a href="asdfs">Link 22</a>
my.property.link333=<a href="asdfs">Link 333</a>
my.property.link4444=<a href="asdfs">Link 4444</a>

I want to mark the first "=" in each line, to be able to select all the preceding text (indifferent from the amount of text preceding the "=") to cut or copy the text. The paste-result of such action would be:

my.property.link1
my.property.link22
my.property.link333
my.property.link4444

Upvotes: 21

Views: 42947

Answers (7)

Sean Voynaud Brisson
Sean Voynaud Brisson

Reputation: 81

[CTRL + A] ; [CTRL + Shift + L] ; [Home]

make a AutoItInputMacro.exe Map that to [Home] 1 press button GG No rematch.

Upvotes: 8

Dick
Dick

Reputation: 49

For this problem, you can use the command line cc.gbc 1/=/ of ConyEdit (a plugin) to get the text before the first column of regex match.

Upvotes: 0

Max Becerra
Max Becerra

Reputation: 486

Select all with Ctrl + A then press Ctrl + Shift + L and finally go to "Selection-> Invert Selection" like the picture et Voila!: Invert Selection

Upvotes: 0

Xavi
Xavi

Reputation: 20439

I actually wrote a sublime plugin called SelectUntil that addresses this exact problem: https://github.com/xavi-/sublime-selectuntil

Once it's install you can do the following

  • Select all the line you'd like edit or partially copy
  • Press Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + L -- this gives each line it's own cursor.
  • Bring each cursor to the beginning of it's line by pressing Home or Ctrl + A if you're using OSX
  • Press Ctrl/Alt + Shift + S to activate SelectUntil
  • Tell SelectUntil to select until the equals sign by typing = + Enter
  • Hit shift + ← to deselect the equals sign
  • At this point the names of all the properties should be selected so you can copy/paste as you'd like

The experience should look something like this:

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Upvotes: 40

Hugo Corr&#225;
Hugo Corr&#225;

Reputation: 14799

Supposing you have the following text:

my.property.link1=<a href="asdfs">Link 1</a>
my.property.link22=<a href="asdfs">Link 22</a>
my.property.link333=<a href="asdfs">Link 333</a>
my.property.link4444=<a href="asdfs">Link 4444</a>

Press Ctrl + F (or click Find->Find)

Enable regular expressions

Type in the search field: ^.*?(?==)

Preess Alt + Enter (or click Find All)

Now all the text before = is selected, you just need to copy it.

Upvotes: 26

NTyler
NTyler

Reputation: 1427

Tried this and it seems to work:

Regex find using ^(.*)(STRING_TO_MATCH)

\1 will give all the stuff before your match, \2 gives the match itself.

You could also use ^(.*)(STRING_TO_MATCH)(.*) and then \3 would be everything after.

Edit - if you're looking to select and copy, I tried this: ^[^CHAR]*

This will find everything from the beginning of the line up to and not including your character. From there you can right click to copy. I haven't found a keystroke sequence to do it since the find panel has focus, maybe you can figure it out.

Upvotes: 3

Hugo Corr&#225;
Hugo Corr&#225;

Reputation: 14799

Supposing you have the following text:

AAAABBBCCCC
ABC
BBBAAACCC
ABCABCABC

..and you want to replace every first occurrence of A in each line by X:

Press Ctrl + H (or click Find->Replace)

Find what: A(.*)

Replace With: X\1

Then click in replace all.

Upvotes: 2

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