Text Pastry is a plugin for Sublime Text 2 & 3 that will give you the necessary tools to insert a bunch of text, a list of numbers or generated UUIDs into your selected locations.

Ever wanted to paste five lines into five other locations at once? Text Pastry can help you out!

• v1.3.3: New commands: \r(regexp) and \r regex
• v1.3.2: Bugfix release

Thanks for using the excelent Package Control to install Text Pastry.

To use Text Pastry, we need to open a Document in ST2 and use Multiple Selection to mark the insert locations (in this document also refered to as selections).

Please keep in mind that the selected text could be replaced when we run the Text Pastry command. To avoid that, we can alway place the cursor between letters by using CMD + Click or even select a whole column by using ALT + Click

All we need to do now is to press CMD + ALT + N to open the Text Pastry command line. The input panel will show up at the bottom of ST2.

Now its time to run our first command. Let's enter first second third and hit enter to run the command. Text Pastry will add first to our first selection, second to the next selection and so on.

Text Pastry will only replace as many words as we type into the command line. So if we have more selections then words, the rest of our selection will remain intact.

The default key bindings are stored at /Text Pastry/Default.sublime-keymap. As always, you can use your user keymap file to overrule the default key bindings.

Note: The commands from the Text Pastry menu are also available through the Command Palete (CMD + SHIFT + P)

Replaces the first selection with Lorem, the second selection with Ipsum, etc.:

Lorem Ipsum Dolor

Inserts a sequence, starting at 1:

\i

Inserts a sequence, starting at 0:

\i0

Inserts a sequence by defining start index and step size:

\i(N,M)

• N the start index
• M the step size

Note: The Number Sequence command uses the syntax from TextPad.

Additionally, we can leave the brackets away if we want to:

\i1000,100

Inserts the content of the clipboard into our selections by splitting the words:

\p

Same as above with a specified string separator:

\p(sep)

• sep the string separator used to split the clipboad data.

Note: The Clipboard command uses syntax from TextPad.

Text Pastry will generate a UUID for each selection we have made:

\uuid

This command will generate a random UUID by using pythons uuid.uuid4() method:

dbf8326e-5243-406e-abd9-bd0425d3e842

We can use the following command to generate a random UUID in UPPERCASE:

\UUID

NEW We're abe to define regex separators for the data that we are pasting, which should give us some new possibilities. All it does is splitting the clipboard data with the regex, and paste the resulting items into the selected locations:

\r(regex)

or

\r regex

• regex the regexp used to split the clipboad data.

Note: If you managed to get python-pcre up and running, the library will be prefered over the default python re library.

Text Pastry has a build in support for the Insert Nums syntax by providing three numbers separated by one space:

N M P

• N: the start index.
• M represents the step size which will be added to the index for each selection.
• P must be > 0 and will be used to pad the index with leading zeroes.

Note:

Here are some examples, assuming we have selected every ocurence of null and Text Pastry was called by pressing CMD + ALT + N:

Enter a list of words, separated by one space, into the command line:

INPUT SELECT TEXTAREA DIV P A

var a = document.getElementsByTagName('null');
var b = document.getElementsByTagName('null');
var c = document.getElementsByTagName('null');
var d = document.getElementsByTagName('null');
var e = document.getElementsByTagName('null');
var f = document.getElementsByTagName('null');

var a = document.getElementsByTagName('INPUT');
var b = document.getElementsByTagName('SELECT');
var c = document.getElementsByTagName('TEXTAREA');
var d = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
var e = document.getElementsByTagName('P');
var f = document.getElementsByTagName('A');

###Using the Clipboard###

The same as above, but this time we copy the list of words into our clipboard:

INPUT SELECT TEXTAREA DIV P A

Insert this into the input panel:

\p

var a = document.getElementsByTagName('null');
var b = document.getElementsByTagName('null');
var c = document.getElementsByTagName('null');
var d = document.getElementsByTagName('null');
var e = document.getElementsByTagName('null');
var f = document.getElementsByTagName('null');

var a = document.getElementsByTagName('INPUT');
var b = document.getElementsByTagName('SELECT');
var c = document.getElementsByTagName('TEXTAREA');
var d = document.getElementsByTagName('DIV');
var e = document.getElementsByTagName('P');
var f = document.getElementsByTagName('A');

If we copy following list, we will get the same result:

INPUT
SELECT
TEXTAREA
DIV
P
A

Lets assume we want to paste some test data into our code:

71602	White Hall
71603	Pine Bluff
71611	Pine Bluff
71612	White Hall
71613	Pine Bluff
71630	Arkansas City
71631	Banks
71635	Crossett
71638	Dermott
71639	Dumas

This command will tell Text Pastry to split up our clipboard data by using the newline character as separator:

\p(\n)

var a = load('null');
var b = load('null');
var c = load('null');
var d = load('null');
var e = load('null');
var f = load('null');

var a = load('71602	White Hall');
var b = load('71603	Pine Bluff');
var c = load('71611	Pine Bluff');
var d = load('71612	White Hall');
var e = load('71613	Pine Bluff');
var f = load('71630	Arkansas City');

Each line of the clipboard data will be stripped/trimmed, so there won't be any leading spaces.

The following list would therefore give us the same result when we use \p(\n) as command:

Data without leading/trailing whitespace

INPUT
SELECT
TEXTAREA
DIV
P
A

Data with leading whitespace:

INPUT
	SELECT
		TEXTAREA
		DIV
	P
A

We can change this behaviour in the <Packages>/Text Pastry/TextPastry.sublime-settings file:

"clipboard_strip_newline": false

Start at 1, adding 1 for each selection:

\i

var a = null;
var b = null;
var c = null;

var a = 1;
var b = 2;
var c = 3;

Start at 1000, adding 100 for each selection:

\i(1000,100)

var a = null;
var b = null;
var c = null;

var a = 1000;
var b = 1100;
var c = 1200;

You can also use negative numbers to create a negative sequence:

\i(100,-10)

var a = null;
var b = null;
var c = null;
var d = null;
var e = null;
var f = null;

var a = 100;
var b = 90;
var c = 80;
var d = 70;
var e = 60;
var f = 50;

1 100 1

var a = null;
var b = null;
var c = null;
var d = null;
var e = null;
var f = null;

var a = 1;
var b = 101;
var c = 201;
var d = 301;
var e = 401;
var f = 501;

1 1 3

var a = null;
var b = null;
var c = null;
var d = null;
var e = null;
var f = null;

var a = 001;
var b = 002;
var c = 003;
var d = 004;
var e = 005;
var f = 006;

• Alphabetical sequence (upper/lower case)
• Random numbers, strings and sequences
• Command List Overlay
• Command History
• UUID generation
• Settings for word manipulation
• Paste as Block

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Duy Dao, https://github.com/duydao/Text-Pastry

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

For further information, please take the time to look at following links:

• Sublime Text 2: http://www.sublimetext.com/
• Sublime Package Control: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control
• Insert Nums: https://github.com/jbrooksuk/InsertNums
• TextPad: http://www.textpad.com