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| Summary: | [65cat] "Find" action not recordable by macro recording | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | editor | Reporter: | ulfzibis <ulfzibis> |
| Component: | Macros | Assignee: | Svata Dedic <sdedic> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | blocker | ||
| Priority: | P2 | ||
| Version: | 6.x | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
The macros do not currently support any parameters passing so marking this as a feature request.
BTW I find using regexps in search/replace rather powerful e.g. if you would select your four lines and press Ctrl+H for
replace you can check "Regular Expressions" checkbox and enter
"//.*[\n]"
into Find What field and nothing into "Replace With" field and doing Replace All will concatenate lines and remove
comments. There would be some extra whitespace so you could possibly use regexp groups (text enclosed in parenthesis) to
achieve better results:
Find what: "[ ]*(".*",).*[\n]"
Replace with: " $1"
> BTW I find using regexps in search/replace rather powerful e.g. if you would select
BTW I find learning local languages rather powerful, e.g. if you are in need of a toilet meandering in an exotic airport
hall while just on stopover, local language knowledge would be to your advantage, if your nose is in poor condition. ;-)
I also think, this is more an enhancement of existing macro processing, than a new feature.
Anyway, thanks for encouraging me learning regex. I tried it several times, but Chinese must be easier. ;-) Hi, I am leaving in Taiwan since 6 years, and I confirm that learning regexp is easier than Chinese. People have asked about Find/Replace with macros over the last 6 years since this ticket was first entered. I'll +1 this. I was just looking for same functionality. See bug 207532, comment 20 for a use case ... and other examples throughout this tracker and in forums where complex and repetitive find/replace operations are performed. Current alternatives might be to use an external tool like AutoHotKey or PhraseExpress, depending on requirements. But NB macros really should be enhanced a bit in each point-release to control more of the IDE and content. |
[ BUILD # : 200809031401 ] [ JDK VERSION : 1.6.0_07 ] Assume I have following code: String[] names = { "Peter", // my father "Laura", // my mother "Paul", // my brother "Betty", // my sister ... { If I want to delete the comments and put all string literals in one line I need to record a macro like following: find(","), select-begin, next-line, find("\""), backspace, select-end, insert(" ") If I come to "Find" my cursor is in the nice find toolbar, but I can't hit return-key to continue in the editors pane to continue recording my macro. I set this P2, because without "Find", macro recording is nearly worthless.