Drafts Directory: Previous Placeholder <|>

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Posted by agiletortoise, Last update 19 days ago

Find and select the previous placeholder text in the draft. Mean for use with templates as described in this forum tip

Placeholders are any text matching <|fieldname>, where “fieldname” is optional.

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script

// define the placeholder to find
const placeholderRe = /<\|.*?>/gm

// grab values to use
let [st, len] = editor.getSelectedRange()
const text = editor.getText()

// function to locate the next matching placeholder
function findPrevious(str, st) {
	let matches = []
	while(match = placeholderRe.exec(text)) {
		matches.push(match)
	}
	for (let match of matches.reverse()) {
		let pos = match["index"]
		if (pos < st) {
			return [pos, match[0].length]
		}
	}
	return [null, null]
}

// find next placeholder and select it
let [placeSt, placeLn] = findPrevious(text, st)
if (placeSt) {
	editor.setSelectedRange(placeSt, placeLn)
	editor.activate()
}

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