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1. Pete: Edita

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Jul 29, 2006
• 587 views

Hi Pete,

I had a good use for Edita when i ended up with some data
that was arranged in one column that needed to be in two
columns.

Here's an example with some language data:


Some data is arranged like this:

i have
you have
we have
they have

tenho
tem
temos
tem

And needs to be like this:

i have     tenho
you have   tem
we have    temos
they have  tem

what i wanted to do was paste the 'i have' column into Edita,
then come back and copy the 'tenho' lines and then simply paste
that to a new column.  Unfortunately, either Edita wont allow
that (paste to new column) or i dont know how to do it.

Any ideas?



Take care,
Al

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3. Re: Pete: Edita

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jul 30, 2006
• 574 views

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:11:10 -0700, Al Getz <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
wrote:

>Hi Pete,
>
>I had a good use for Edita when i ended up with some data
>that was arranged in one column that needed to be in two
>columns.
>
>Here's an example with some language data:
>
>
>Some data is arranged like this:
>
>i have
>you have
>we have
>they have
>
>tenho
>tem
>temos
>tem
>
>And needs to be like this:
>
>i have     tenho
>you have   tem
>we have    temos
>they have  tem
>
>what i wanted to do was paste the 'i have' column into Edita,
>then come back and copy the 'tenho' lines and then simply paste
>that to a new column.  Unfortunately, either Edita wont allow
>that (paste to new column) or i dont know how to do it.
>
>Any ideas?
>
Yes, this should be possible with column selection. I stumbled into a
few bugs, so first here is a replacement Paste (edita.exw ~line 2450)

global procedure Paste()
object clipText, padding
integer cX, cY, sX, absY
    if currfile then
        if and_bits(isClearOverStrike,cOVRpaste) then
            insertMode=1
        end if
        clipText=getTextFromClipboard()
        if isEu then
            if isReplaceTabs or Xtrans then
                -- This also performs translation:
                for i=1 to length(clipText) do
                    clipText[i]=PackTabs(clipText[i],0)
                end for
            end if
        end if
        if length(clipText) then
            if selON=2 then     -- column mode
                absY = Abs(CursorY-selY)+1
          if equal(clipText,repeat(clipText[1],length(clipText))) then
                    clipText = repeat(clipText[1],absY)
                else
                    if length(clipText)!=absY then
                        if length(clipText)=absY+1
                        and equal(clipText[length(clipText)],{}) then
                        clipText=clipText[1..absY] -- drop trailing {}
                        else
                            void=messageBox(xl("Error"),
                xl("incorrect length for non-uniform column paste"),
                                            0)
                            return
                        end if
                    end if
                end if
                cY=Min(selY,CursorY)
                cX=Min(selX,CursorX)
                sX=Max(selX,CursorX)
                for i=1 to length(clipText) do
                    CursorY=cY
                    CursorX=ExpLength(filetext[currfile][CursorY+1])
                    if CursorX<cX then  -- line too short - pad
                        if length(clipText[i]) then
                            padding = {repeat(' ',cX-CursorX)}
                            selON=0
                            addAction(INSERTBLOCK,padding)
                            InsertBlock(padding)
                        end if
                    elsif CursorX>cX and sX>cX then
                        if CursorX>sX then
                            CursorX=sX
                        end if
                        selX=CursorX
                        CursorX=cX
                        selY=cY -- one line at a time
                        selON=1
                        if not deleteSelection() then
                            ?1
                        end if
                    end if
                    if length(clipText[i]) then
                        CursorX=cX
                        selON=0
                        addAction(INSERTBLOCK,{clipText[i]})
                        InsertBlock({clipText[i]})
                    end if
                    cY+=1
                end for
            else
                if deleteSelection() then end if
                addAction(INSERTBLOCK,clipText)
                InsertBlock(clipText)
            end if
            forceCursorOnscreen()
        end if
    end if
end procedure

With the above routine in place, you should be able to block select
tenho..tem and cut to the clipboard, move to the end of "they have",
insert a few tabs/spaces (make sure it is now the longest line of the
set), Alt-Up to block-column-select the four lines, and paste.

In this particular case the column select is zero chars wide so you
don't get much/any visual feedback but it should now work. You could
of course start on "I have" and use Alt-Down.

Note that when you perform a column selection (using Alt cursors) and
attempt a paste of several different lines into that selection, it
will check that the lengths match. I added a line above to ignore a
lone trailing {}.

While doing this, I nailed another of those pesky undo/redo WHOOPS, so
many thanks for the feedback.

Regards,
Pete