[TxMt] Re: repeat scratch macro

[Michael Larocque]

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/