For a somewhat finer twist on this, is it possible to pass a variable (e.g. $TM_SELECTED_TEXT) to the Find clipboard?
This would be a way to achieve a "find the next instance of X" in a macro, which would be a different X in each text block. Perhaps there is already a way to do this which I haven't found.
Many thanks, D. Wooten
On Dec 23, 2004, at 1:03 AM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On Dec 23, 2004, at 1:15, David Wooten wrote:
I've been experimenting a little with the macro recording feature, and one thing I'd find rather useful would be to include a search in it. Is this not yet possible?
That is possible. You can either use the find next/previous actions to find what's on the find clipboard (when the macro is replayed), or you can use the find window to find a specific string (with specific find options), which is then independent of the contents of the find clipboard, when the macro is replayed.
The idea is that one would search for the next instance of a certain word, and then base the rest of the macro off of the location of that word. This is good, for example, for reformatting bbl (bibtex) files in ways that are not supported natively.
When I need a macro which 'starts' its action after a certain string, I often have the last action in the macro do the find. That way, I can replay the macro repeatedly, until I hear a beep, which indicates that there are no more blocks of text that needs to be worked upon (i.e. the last find of the last macro replayed fails).