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## TextMate: Insert text into self.down

on Tuesday, February 21, 2006

UPDATE: I got everything working and it's all packaged up here. There's an installation script this time as well.

Thanks to a helpful thread on the TextMate mailing list I have the beginning of a solution to insert text at 2 (or more) locations in a file.

I implemented this for a new snippet I was working on for migrations, `rename_column`. Since the command is the same in self.up and self.down simply doing a reverse search for `rename_column` in my hackish macro didn't return the cursor the desired location.

That's enough introduction, here's the program to do the insertion:

    #!/usr/bin/env ruby
    def indent(s)
      s =~ /^(\s*)/
      ' ' * $1.length
    end

    up_line = 'rename_column "${1:table}", "${2:column}", "${3:new_name}"$0'
    down_line = "rename_column \"$$1\", \"$$3\", \"$$2\"\n"

    # find the end of self.down and insert 2nd line
    lines = STDIN.read.to_a.reverse
    ends_seen = 0
    lines.each_with_index do |line, i|
      ends_seen += 1    if line =~ /^\s*end\b/
      if ends_seen == 2
        lines[i..i] = [lines[i], indent(lines[i]) * 2 + down_line]
        break
      end
    end

    # return the new text, escaping special chars
    print up_line + lines.reverse.to_s.gsub('[$`\\]', '\\\\\1').gsub('\\$\\$', '$')

Save this as a command in your Rails, or syncPeople on Rails, bundle. The command options should be as follows:

- Save: Nothing
- Input: Selected Text or Nothing
- Output: Insert as Snippet
- Activation: Whatever you want, I'm going to use a macro described below and leave this empty
- Scope Selector: source.ruby.rails

The first modification it needs is to get the lines to insert as command line arguments so we can use it for other snippets. Secondly, regardless of the Re-indent pasted text setting the text returned is indented incorrectly.

The macro I'm thinking of to invoke this is tab-triggered and will simply:

- Select word (`⌃W`)
- Delete (`⌫`)
- Select to end of file (`⇧⌘↓`)
- Run command "Put in self.down"

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