Strip YouTube Caption Timestamps with Textmate

StripTimestamp.tmMacro

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Cool stuff, man. I posted about this on the TM mailing list. It almost works, but it doesn't seem to remove all the line breaks (such as after an em dash or after punctuation), or insert spaces after commas. I'd help but I don't understand this stuff at all. :P I'm used to working with markup and styling.

Would be really badass if you could could make it do that stuff as well as retain line breaks after things inside brackets, such as [blah]

Brackets are being used in the closed-captioning for sounds.

At any rate, much appreciated. I'm broke and in bad health. It's always nice to get some help. ;)

One thing I found is that doing an Unwrap Paragraph command took care of the other line breaks. The I did a find and replace on "," to change it to ", ". After that it would just be adding 2 lines breaks before and after []. Boring, so if you don't want to do it, no big deal. This has already saved me heaps of time.

Cheers.

Xero

It doesn't insert spaces after commas because i thought you asked for your third step to be to remove these spaces. Probably should have asked before I made it that way, lol, as that's an insane thing to request.

You could probably do a simple find and replace for the brackets thing, same as you did for the commas (did you know you could replace with multiple lines? you can).

If you'll need this in the future I bet I could modify them, but I assume this is probably close enough?