Temporary macros in the editor?

[matsgefvert]

Hi,

I've been looking around for this feature in Netbeans PHP but I haven't found anything yet. Visual Studio, Delphi and Notepad++ all have this feature of recording a temporary macro by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-R, and then stop the recording using the same key combination again. The macro may then be used by simply pressing CTRL-SHIFT-P, repeatedly.

The advantage is in the simplicity, obviously - no dialogs, no saving macros under different names and assigning keys to it... I always use it if I have more than two or three rows to edit. Sometimes I even open up Notepad++, copy the source there, macro-edit it, and then copy it back.

Does Netbeans have this feature? Or is it planned somehow? I miss it terribly.

Regards,
Mats

[Petr Pisl]

Hi Mats,

unfortunately NetBeans doesn't have temporary macros. There is macro
functionality and as you mentioned, you have to save the macro and
assign a shortcut.

I have looked in our Issuezilla and there are enhancements for macros.
For example:
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69424

Regards,
Petr

[matsgefvert]

Thanks for replying. Looks like the issue hasn't been touched in a while.

Do you think it might be possible to write a plugin that does this?

Regards,
Mats

[matsgefvert]

Hmm... Found a thread somewhere about someone who already tried it and it didn't work. Belongs in the codebase for IDE itself.

http://markmail.org/message/3c4u6wa73kzpz3nh

Meh.