macro-writing

khk khk

I know, how to record a macro.

But where can I find a description of macro parameters (eg. reserved words ) to put macro definitions into shortcut.xml?

guy038

Hello, @khk_khk, and All,

Here are some links, in the Official Notepad++ documentation :

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/macros/

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/config-files/#macros

https://npp-user-manual.org/docs/searching/#searching-actions-when-recorded-as-macros

Here is my own summary of all the <Action> tags, of type = 3, which define a search/replace operation, in the <Macros> section of shortcuts.xml

Hope this helps !

Best Regards,

guy038

Alan Kilborn

But where can I find a description of macro parameters (eg. reserved words ) to put macro definitions into shortcut.xml?

@guy038’s search/replace info is good…for search/replace.

Oftentimes a macro action is just a Scintilla command, in which case it comes down to a numeric command that is defined in the source code (file: scintilla.h) starting with SCI_. A good source of available SCI_ commands is on the Scintilla tab page of the Shortcut Mapper.

I believe also that some menu id (numeric) commands are also recorded into macros. A good reference for this is the source code file menuCmdID.h.

Probably exhaustive end-user level documentation on all possible commands is beyond the available resources of the Notepad++ dev team. It would be great to have, but…

I know, how to record a macro.

This truly is a novice-to-medium-experience end user’s best way to work with macros. If you want to see what results from an action, record and save a simple macro and then look at it in shortcuts.xml 's macro section.

If you want to hand-edit a slightly bigger macro, put together (textually) several of these little test macros you’ve recorded.

Alan Kilborn

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