On 1/6/2006, at 9:48, Dave Baldwin wrote:

I was frequently selecting a word and finding it in the project so I thought I would automate the 3 command sequence (control w, command e and command shift f, return) by using a macro. Unfortunately the find in project part is not recorded within the start/stop macro. I guess this is because it brings up a dialogue box?

Sort of, yes -- only actions local to the current document are recorded.

Any way around this or maybe I have overlooked some built in command that does this?

The workaround would be to let step 3 of the macro be Text -> Filter Through Command… setting input/output to none/discard and letting the command be:

osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to keystroke "F" using {command down}' &>/dev/null &

However, while this will open the Find in Project window, it will not show your current word in the find string. This is because macros execute using a local find clipboard.

When saving the macro it is possible to disable the use of a local (normal) clipboard -- this should probably affect the local/global state of both though (I am adding a ote to check it out.)

So unfortunately no workaround for now.