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Select By Regex

This Sublime Text 3 plugin will prompt you for a regular expression, then create multiple selections from all of the matches to that regular expression. The range of the search is limited to the current selection. If nothing is selected, then the this command will imply the current line.

Example:

This, is, an, example

Select By Regex: ,

This[,] is[,] an[,] example

Usage:

After installing, use the command palette and search for "Select By Regex". This brings up the Regex input box at the bottom of the screen. Type in a regular expression and press ENTER, or ESCAPE to cancel.

This can be very useful for splitting a line by commas. You can run the command, then press RIGHT and your cursor(s) will be after every comma. Then just press ENTER.

Keybind:

To bind this to a key, enter the following in your user keybinds file:

{
    "keys": ["super+alt+shift+f"], "command": "select_by_regex",
}

Credits:

Special thanks to klorenz for helping with the ST2 compatibility.

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Debounce on_change?

When using on a big selection, typing in the box triggers the preview on each keypress. When I tried that on 1500ish lines, sublime/python can't handle it.

I'd consider implementing a debounced method, so that the preview updates say 500ms after the last keypress. Opinion? I can write the code and create a pull request if you will.

What is the difference in functionality between this plugin and 'Find All' from the sublime search?

Merge with SublimeSelectRegex?

Hi. I've already had similar non-publised plugin: https://github.com/mvoidex/SublimeSelectRegex, which is very similar to your plugin, but have some differences and advantages:

Allows selecting group, not full regex
Allows matching for selected text (foo$_ matches foobar if bar was selected)
Can select next regex or all regexes
This works well: #4
But 'select regex: all' differs: it selects all regexes in selection without restriction to single line, so if you want to select regexes in lines, you have to use 'expand selection to line' command

Having two similar plugins is not good idea, can we merge them somehow?