[Lazarus] Feature Request: IDE user defined recorded macros

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

Hi,

Are there any plans to add user recorded macros support to Lazarus IDE?

Many text editors have this built-in, and allows for a huge amount of
“extending the editor’s features” without modify the underlying
program's source code. We can simply record a sequence of actions, give
it a name, assign it a keyboard shortcut and play it back when we need
that functionality.

I was quite surprised to see Lazarus IDE doesn’t have that. Maybe I’m
simply overlooking the feature (very possible), or it’s enabled via an
external IDE package add-on?

See attached screenshot of a commercial text editor called EditPad Pro
7. It has extensive support for user recorded macros. You can even
export the macro to a INI file, edit the macro and then import it again.

Here is an example of an exported "join lines" macro.

==================
[EditPadProMacro]
Caption=Join Lines
ShortCut=16458
CommandCount=6
C0=Editor.CaretDown
C1=Editor.CaretHome
C2=Editor.CaretEnd
C3=Actions.ActionExtraTrimLeading
C4=Editor.CaretUp
C5=Editor.Backspace

[EditPadProMacroC2]
ExpandSel=1
==================

Regards,
  Graeme

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