In multiple selections is it possible to order incremented numbers or pasted text by row first, and then by column?

[Nieralyte]

e.g. in multi-selections like this (| represents the text caret):

<td>|</td><td>|</td>
<td>|</td><td>|</td>
<td>|</td><td>|</td>

instead of having:

<td>1|</td><td>2|</td>
<td>3|</td><td>4|</td>
<td>5|</td><td>6|</td>

to be able to have:

<td>1|</td><td>4|</td>
<td>2|</td><td>5|</td>
<td>3|</td><td>6|</td>

or in case of copy-paste (with Ctrl+Alt+V), to be able to paste this:

foo
bar
baz
qux
quux
corge

like this:

<td>foo|</td><td>qux|</td>
<td>bar|</td><td>quux|</td>
<td>baz|</td><td>corge|</td>

instead of:

<td>foo|</td><td>bar|</td>
<td>baz|</td><td>qux|</td>
<td>quux|</td><td>corge|</td>

[duydao]

Thank you for using Text Pastry! This is not supported in the current version, but this sounds interesting.

I have to check how Sublime Text handles word wrapped lines (could lead to a problem in identefying rows). Please allow me a few days to check how easy it would be to implement this feature.

I'm also working on a feature called bullet paste, which would solve this problem in a different way. Basically, you load up your clipboard with items to paste, and every time you paste into selections, those items will be removed from the clipboard.

With bullet paste, we would copy the list of words:

foo
bar
baz
qux
quux
corge

mark the first column, CTRL+ALT+V, mark the second column, CTRL+ALT+V, etc

and it would lead to the expected result:

<td>foo</td><td>qux</td>
<td>bar</td><td>quux</td>
<td>baz</td><td>corge</td>

So we don't have to copy-paste-copy-paste... any more, we just copy the data into our clipboard once and paste it until we're out of data.

[Nieralyte]

wow, bullet paste sounds really neat! in case of a number in a clipboard, i imagine, it could paste incremented numbers infinitely. "range 3 7" in a clipboard could paste 3-7 in an infinite loop by a single number. there are many possibilities.

P.S. here's a little demo i did using Text Pastry: http://i.imgur.com/AZ2LGR1.gif

[duydao]

Thanks for the demo! We can also set a cursor into the cells by using this command:

search <td>(.*?)</td>

I've just tagged 1.4.5, you can paste by row by using pror pbras command

Thanks for using text pastry!

[Nieralyte]

this is just great! even multiple selection pastes work great on wrapped lines. just a little problem i've encountered, it breaks when selections start somewhere on the first line.

six-piece pasting of

foo
bar
baz
qux
quux
corge

results in

<td>foo|</td><td>baz|</td>
<td>bar|</td><td>qux|</td>
<td>|</td><td>|</td>

if there are no lines prior to the block

see the demo of that: http://i.imgur.com/ZQigZ6x.gif

oh BTW it's nice to know, i wasn't aware of the <td>(.*?)</td> parens regex trick, certainly will save some typing.

[duydao]

Thanks for reporting this bug, it has been fixed in 1.4.6!

[Nieralyte]

yep, it worked! thank you very much!