Balance vs Balance Tags
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Simdude
Nov 14, 2019, 9:55:49 PM11/14/19
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I'm having trouble seeing the difference between Balance and Balance tags. For example, with this code snippet:
<ul>
<li>Book 1</li>
<li>Book 2</li>
<li>Book 3</li>
</ul>
If my cursor is on "Book 1" and I use either Balance or Balance tags, the result is the same. All of Book 1 is selected. If I hit either again, everything between the ul tags is selected. So, when do these two operations act differently?
Mark
Bruce Van Allen
Nov 14, 2019, 11:22:22 PM11/14/19
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A difference is that "Balance" checks things other than html
tags - like parentheses & bracket pairing in text and code files.
Another aspect of "Balance" can give you different behavior:
From Expert Preferences:
By default, the "Balance" command (or double-clicking on a
delimiter to balance) does not include the delimiters in the
resulting selection. If you would like for it to do so:
defaults write com.barebones.bbedit BalanceIncludesDelimiters
-bool YES
HTH
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- Bruce
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tags - like parentheses & bracket pairing in text and code files.
Another aspect of "Balance" can give you different behavior:
From Expert Preferences:
By default, the "Balance" command (or double-clicking on a
delimiter to balance) does not include the delimiters in the
resulting selection. If you would like for it to do so:
defaults write com.barebones.bbedit BalanceIncludesDelimiters
-bool YES
HTH
- Bruce
_bruce__van_allen__santa_cruz__ca_
Simdude
Nov 15, 2019, 9:43:45 AM11/15/19
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Thanks Bruce. I did notice after if I had something like:
<ul>
<li>This is my "Book 1"</li>
<li>Book 2</li>
<li>Book 3</li>
</ul>
and the cursor was in "Book 1" that Balance will grab inside the quotes where the Balance Tags gets everything in the tags of course. I guess I was just seeing similar behavior because I was not in another enclosing pair of (), {} or whatever.
Simdude
Nov 15, 2019, 6:51:08 PM11/15/19
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So, I wanted to reopen because something seems strange to me. Given the following snippet:
<head>
<title>Mark Miller</title>
<meta name="generator" content="BBEdit 13.0" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="" href=“<#URI#>“ />
</head>
If I put my cursor in the <#URI#> and hit CMD-B, I expected to select everything in the double quotes. As I read through the manual, I realized it would only work with "smart" quotes. So I "educated" the quotes and tried again. CMD-B is still selecting everything in the head tag. I'm also not sure if it's even allowed to use smart quotes inside an html tag.
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