Interactive Recognition Patterns

[Joerg Fischer]

John M Church wrote:

> Both of you suggested macros.  I think of macros as generally a sequence 
> of actions that one can trigger that does something on an 
> instance-by-instance basis (move to the next text that satisfies some 
> criteria).

This is perhaps how it started, but nedit later on got a built-in
scripting language, so one can do a lot more

>  However I admit to not having worked with them much.  I went 
> through the help menu last night but it wasn't obvious to me where to 
> start (any resources you could suggest for nedit macros?).  In any case 
> I want to label/highlight/backlight all the file at once so the user can 
> easily scroll back-n-forth, split panes, etc. to see all the switches 
> that match.  Can macros do this?  

Yes, please have a look at

http://www.nedit.org/niki/index.php/Macro%20Collection

specifically the rangeset macros

http://www.nedit.org/niki/index.php/RangesetMacroCollection

What Joachim refered to is a customized (to your needs) findall
macros provided in this package.

Cheers,
Jörg