I'm confused about how to record a macro using a pre-defined text string *without* defaulting to whatever was last in my Find dialogue.

For example, for use after invoking Edit-in-TextMate for an email reply, I recorded a trivial macro that searches for

"On dateblah Jane Rodriguez wrote:"

then captures the first name using something like this

^.+? (\w+) \w+ wrote:$

and finally plops this at the top of my reply:

"Hi Jane,"

(What can I say, I'm a lazy correspondent.)

I've tried setting the macro both to local and global clipboards, and also editing the macro syntax (with which I'm not terribly familiar) to something like this:

<plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>commands</key> <array> <dict> <key>argument</key> <string>wrote:</string> <key>command</key> <string>findNext:</string> </dict> ...

Seems like this should be easy, but I'm stuck--any help appreciated.

jon

PS: thanks to Jay Soffian for solving my JavaScript-as-TextMate script question!