I sometimes find myself reformating big chunks of code (html) and then i usually build a little scratch macro, and then i just hit shift +command+m lots of times to go through the code. while this works, is there an easy way to say something like "do this until end of file" or simmilar? perhaps make the macro dependant on finding the next text string of something until the end or something?
andreas
Andreas Wahlin wrote:
I sometimes find myself reformating big chunks of code (html) and then i usually build a little scratch macro, and then i just hit shift +command+m lots of times to go through the code. while this works, is there an easy way to say something like "do this until end of file" or simmilar? perhaps make the macro dependant on finding the next text string of something until the end or something?
Interestingly, I was talking to Allan about this yesterday. I also often end up repeating a scratch macro lots of times in a row. I asked if we could get some kind of "do scratch macro for each line in selection" action, and he said that it would be better to just have some sort of "repeat macro for selection" menu option that would perform a scratch macro repeatedly starting at the beginning of a selection and going through the end of it. Apparently it would need to make sure that the macro always steps forward, but there may be some way to do that. So anyway, in response to your question, it's being thought about, and we'll hopefully see a solution sometime.
-Jacob
On 2006-Sep-11, at 09:36, Jacob Rus wrote:
Andreas Wahlin wrote:
I sometimes find myself reformating big chunks of code (html) and then i usually build a little scratch macro, and then i just hit shift +command+m lots of times to go through the code. while this works, is there an easy way to say something like "do this until end of file" or simmilar? perhaps make the macro dependant on finding the next text string of something until the end or something?
Interestingly, I was talking to Allan about this yesterday. I also often end up repeating a scratch macro lots of times in a row. I asked if we could get some kind of "do scratch macro for each line in selection" action, and he said that it would be better to just have some sort of "repeat macro for selection" menu option that would perform a scratch macro repeatedly starting at the beginning of a selection and going through the end of it. Apparently it would need to make sure that the macro always steps forward, but there may be some way to do that. So anyway, in response to your question, it's being thought about, and we'll hopefully see a solution sometime.
-Jacob
Ah, a subject that has been bugging me for some time...
Here's something additional to think about. What I _really_ miss from Emacs is the repeat-next command functionality (see also Ctrl-u). My workflow often consists of creating a scratch macro to do _splat_. I'll then want to repeat it a number of times, ranging from a few to several thousand. I would then do:
ESC-6 Ctrl-x e
to repeat the macro 6 times. Ctrl-U is a 'repeat-modifier', multiplying the repeat by 4 each time, such that
Ctrl-u Ctrl-u Ctrl-U Ctrl-x e
would repeat the macro 64 times (4x4x4).
_This_ is something that I really miss in TextMate. Any thoughts about adding something like this?
Carpe viam, Mike
Michael Larocque Chief Cook and Bottle Washer Prolumina Communications Inc. http://prolumina.com/~mlarocque/
Andreas Wahlin wrote:
I sometimes find myself reformating big chunks of code (html) and then i usually build a little scratch macro, and then i just hit shift +command+m lots of times to go through the code. while this works, is there an easy way to say something like "do this until end of file" or simmilar? perhaps make the macro dependant on finding the next text string of something until the end or something?
Interestingly, I was talking to Allan about this yesterday. I also often end up repeating a scratch macro lots of times in a row. I asked if we could get some kind of "do scratch macro for each line in selection" action, and he said that it would be better to just have some sort of "repeat macro for selection" menu option that would perform a scratch macro repeatedly starting at the beginning of a selection and going through the end of it. Apparently it would need to make sure that the macro always steps forward, but there may be some way to do that. So anyway, in response to your question, it's being thought about, and we'll hopefully see a solution sometime.
-Jacob
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