[TxMt] Solution for cut to end of line (emacs ctrl-k)?

[Allan Odgaard]

On Jan 19, 2005, at 13:59, Brad Miller wrote:

> Here's another little gotcha to remember that caught me, that I bet is 
> not obvious to other programmers.  When you record a macro that calls 
> a command (or another macro),  you might expect that the command/macro 
> would be called, by name, like a function call in a program...  
> However, what really happens is the contents of the command/macro get 
> inserted [...]

Also applies to snippets. This is on purpose, since for example the 
original command/snippet/macro could have been deleted, or it could 
have been changed w/o considering that there was a dependency on it.

> Could I avoid this if I edit the macro directly?  Not sure how to call 
> another command or macro from a macro.

You can't call another command by name, but you could make the change 
in the macro (instead of the command). Formally though I do not support 
manual editing of macros, since there's no sanity checks on the 
validity of the macro (so if you screw up, you may screw up TM when it 
executes the macro).

In next beta there'll be the possibility to inspect the contents of 
macros to make them more transparent (but no edit from inside TM) -- in 
the future I intend to record macros in a real language so that they 
can be edited.  Just not entirely ready to embrace AppleScript ;)