why does 'tab' select this piece of code instead of inserting a 'tab'

[TJ Luoma]

I've had this happen before but not often enough that I can remember
whatever dumb thing I did that caused it.

All of a sudden when I press 'tab' I don't get a tab, but instead
BBEdit decides to find and highlight a particular piece of code.

screenshot:
https://images.luo.ma/temp/bbedit-tab-finds-highlights-instead-of-tabbing.png

Pressing 'tab' again has no effect.

This only happens for this document, but closing the file or even
quitting BBEdit has no effect.

I did try googling, but "bbedit tab find" are not particularly useful
search keywords

Any help appreciated

Thanks

Tj



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[Patrick Woolsey]

On 8/1/19 at 7:37 AM, luo...@gmail.com (TJ Luoma) wrote:

>I've had this happen before but not often enough that I can remember
>whatever dumb thing I did that caused it.
>
>All of a sudden when I press 'tab' I don't get a tab, but instead
>BBEdit decides to find and highlight a particular piece of code.
>
>screenshot:
>https://images.luo.ma/temp/bbedit-tab-finds-highlights-instead-of-tabbing.png
>

That's because the highlighted section looks like (i.e. has the
same form as) a BBEdit _jump placeholder_ (page 246):

These strings have the form "<#...#>" where the content "..."
between the two # signs is either alphanumeric text, or empty.

and you can control whether Tab should navigate to such
placeholders via the leading option in the Keyboard prefs pane.


Regards,

Patrick Woolsey
==
Bare Bones Software, Inc. <http://www.barebones.com>

[TJ Luoma]

On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 11:43 AM Patrick Woolsey <pwoo...@barebones.com> wrote:
>
> That's because the highlighted section looks like (i.e. has the
> same form as) a BBEdit _jump placeholder_ (page 246):

Never heard of that before.

(I wonder what percentage of BBEdit's features I even understand?)

> and you can control whether Tab should navigate to such
> placeholders via the leading option in the Keyboard prefs pane.

Aha! That is now un-checked. Thanks