TextMate bundle to insert a line of text above each line selected?

Question

I'm looking for a way to insert a line of text above each line in the selected text in TextMate.

Does anyone know how to write a command or snippet to do this?

Example, selected text:

This is line 1
This is line 2
This is line 3
This is line 4

I want to insert the following above each line selected:

--im an inserted line--

Which would result in the following:

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-im an inserted line--
This is line 1
--im an inserted line--
This is line 2
--im an inserted line--
This is line 3
--im an inserted line--
This is line 4

Could this be done using *NIX commands then I could setup a TextMate command to do this?

Would love to know why this question has been flagged as off topic? My question was relating to TextMate bundle programming. — Camsoft, Jul 28 '11 at 15:28

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 29 '11 at 13:11

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Select your text, press APPLE + F, then replace \n with \n--Im an inserted line--\n. Make sure that 'Regular expression' is ticked and that you hold in SHIFT while pressing the 'Replace All' button.

answered Jul 29 '11 at 13:11

sqwk

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Perfect! That was by far the easiest answer. Thanks. – Camsoft Jul 29 '11 at 15:37

romainl · Answer 2 · 2011-07-29T12:49:50.627

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I would record a macro:

Insert a new line above with ⌥⌘↩
Paste desired text

Then save it as a command and possibly assign a shortcut to it.

EDIT

The best way to achive what you want in TextMate is to select all the lines then hit ⌥⌘a (Text > Edit Each Line in Selection) then do all the keyboard mashing necessary to paste what you want where you want:

⌘← to go back to the beginning of the line
↩ to insert a newline, effectively adding a blank line above the current line
↑ to jump to the new blank line
⌘v to paste your text

It will do that on each selected line simultaneously.

You can save a few keystrokes the next time you have to do that by recording all these steps in a macro and save it as a command as in the first part of my answer.

edited Jul 29 '11 at 12:49

answered Jul 28 '11 at 17:21

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I need this to insert the same line of text above every line on selected text. I have 1000's of lines selected and it would take too long to do manually. – Camsoft Jul 28 '11 at 21:51
To be honest, that's the kind of thing that made me move to Vim. – romainl Jul 29 '11 at 12:29
I'm a bit scared by Vim. I know TextMate can do it I'm just not sure how to make it do it! – Camsoft Jul 29 '11 at 12:43
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See my edit, it will solve your problem. I was scared/attracted by Vim until I found myself with nothing to do for a week. I tried it seriously (`$ vimtutor`) and now I don't see myself going back to TextMate. – romainl Jul 29 '11 at 12:53

Lea Hayes · Answer 3 · 2011-07-28T14:59:41.333

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To insert line above current line

I believe the key shortcut is: ⌥ + ⌘ + ↩

edited Jul 28 '11 at 14:59

answered Jul 28 '11 at 14:49

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@Camsoft insert blank line above current line. – Lea Hayes Jul 28 '11 at 14:55
@Camsoft, scroll down a little and you'll see it here: http://projects.serenity.de/textmate/tutorials/basics/#commonbundleshortcuts – Lea Hayes Jul 28 '11 at 14:56
Sorry I don't think I was being clear. I was not trying to insert a blank line but needed a TextMate command or snippet to insert a line of text above each selected line. – Camsoft Jul 28 '11 at 15:01
@Camsoft in that case your probably going to need to create a bundle snippet. This isn't something that I've done before, but the following may help you: http://manual.macromates.com/en/snippets Looks like you'll need an understanding of objective-c to do this. – Lea Hayes Jul 28 '11 at 15:07
Yeah I was aware of that, that was why I asked the orignal question. ;-) Thanks anyway. – Camsoft Jul 28 '11 at 15:28

TextMate bundle to insert a line of text above each line selected?

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