Macro

[MohammadMD1383]

[MohammadMD1383]

First Beta Is Here!

1- You can open macro settings from Settings > Tools > Actionable > Macro or simply from the shortcut as shown above

2- Your macros will be listed there and you can assign shortcuts to them, like past.

1- You can see where your macros are stored. (each macro is stored in a .txt file in the specified folder)

2- You can see all of your macros

3- You can edit your macro file here

• all changes are immediately written to the file
• cancel or reset buttons cannot get you back to the previous state, even apply and ok does nothing except that they refresh the macros (if you choose cancel macros will be updated on next ide startup)

Whats new?

The new macro engine is supposed to have these benefits:

• easier macro create/delete/edit
• better macro editor experience
• template engine like live templates (for now $SELECTION$ and $0$(final caret position) is available)
• better and more useful code generation

Example

before alt+c (custom shortcut assigned to a macro):

after:

Final Speech

• creating/deleting macro .txt files are not yet supported and you have to manually create/delete them
• Don't forget to test this new feature and give feedback! Just visit releases page for latest nightly build
• After upgrading to latest plugin version, older macros will be discarded, so take a copy of them if you still need them

[j-a-s-o-n-g]

Will this have sublime text macro capabilities where it can write text based on regex expressions or # of characters written? Example:

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<snippet>
  <content><![CDATA[
${1/./-/g}
${1:}
${1/./-/g}
]]></content>
  <tabTrigger>aaa</tabTrigger>
</snippet>

[MohammadMD1383]

this looks to be a complex premium feature!

the goal of actionable macro is to insert a text with a shortcut so this is not covered in this issue, but this can be a separate feature request and is welcomed!

[j-a-s-o-n-g]

Ok, I made it a new feature request issue, but definitely not something urgent.

[MohammadMD1383]

Changelog

• added add/remove buttons to settings page
• added word/element support
• handle replacement correctly

This feature is going to be unveiled in v3.17.0, but this thread won't be closed and discussion about this feature is still active to improve it!