[TxMt] Re: Recording macros

[Ritesh Nadhani]

Thanks. That worked. I guess opening up the FIND window broke
everything......

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Joseph Pecoraro <joepeck02 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ritesh,
>
> Try these steps:
> ============
>
> 1) Put cursor in middle of a word
> 2) Start recording macro
> 3) Ctrl+W (Selects the entire word, this is easier then the two step
> ctrl+left, ctrl+right, and works if the cursor is right before the first
> char of the word!)
> 4) Command+E (Puts the word into the 'Find' part of the Find dialog without
> opening the dialog)
> 5) Command+G (Searches for the next occurance of the 'Find' word in the
> Find dialog without opening the dialog)
> 6) Stop recording macro
>
> The reason your version wasn't working before was that when you opened the
> find dialog and ran search, the macro was only recording the single "real
> action" that was taking place... searching for whatever word was in the
> "Find" buffer.  It then records that in the macro as "perform a search with
> the given hardcoded word"  In the macro above, using Command+E (also known
> as Apple+E) is an action to put the current word into the "Find" buffer.
>  That action is recorded by the macro.  Same with the Command+G action
> later.
>
> I know that I didn't use the correct terminology, maybe someone can explain
> it a little better, but that is my reasoning of why your macro was not
> working.
>
> Cheers,
> Joseph Pecoraro
> http://blog.bogojoker.com
>
>
> On Jul 17, 2008, at 2: 23PM, Ritesh Nadhani wrote:
>
> Hello All
> Been using TextMate for 2 weeks now and love it.
>
> I am trying to create a macro to search a word under the cursor when I
> press Ctrl+. These are the steps I follows: http://pastebin.com/m4418e1bdand this is what I get in macro editor:
> http://i36.tinypic.com/344cwm1.png . It seems to be working but when I
> press Ctrl+. next, it searches for the word that I used to record the macro
> and not the current word under the cursor.
>
> What am I missing or doing wrong?
>
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