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exceedsystem / vscode-macros

This extension gives the macro features to your vscode.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EXCEEDSYSTEM.vscode-macros
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How do you specify the workspace folder as the location for the macro file? #13

Closed gregveres closed 2 years ago

gregveres commented 2 years ago

I would like to have the macro file be part of the project. Is there a way to specify the workspace folder as the location for the macro file?

I have tried {workspaceFolder} as pointed out in the VSCode docs, but I think the docs are talking about using the variable from the user's point of view, not from the extension writer's point of view.

I tried this and it doesn't work:

  "vscodemacros.macroFilePath": "${workspaceFolder}/.vscode/openTerminals.js",
exceedsystem commented 2 years ago

@gregveres

If you would like to use macros of workspace, you have to enter the path to your macro file in the Macro File Path of the Workspace settings.

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The settings are stored in the *.code-workspace file.

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Then you can run the workspace macro as follows.

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Best regards,

gregveres commented 2 years ago

Thank you. My problem was that I was trying to use a relative path from the workspace, but I was saving the settings in the user portion of the settings. Apparently when saving as the user settings, the path is relative to somewhere else.

saving in the workspace settings I was able to use the ".vscode/macros" directory.

exceedsystem commented 2 years ago

@gregveres

Thank you for your reply.

I forgot to mention something important.

We are unable to use VSCode predefined variables such as ${workspaceFolder} for the macro file path in VSCode Macros extension because VSCode does not provide an API to expand predefined variables so far.

Please see issue #3 for details.

Best regards,

gregveres commented 2 years ago

No problem at all. Just defining the value as ".vscode/macros/macro-file.js" worked great. I am not sure I would need to expand those variables.

BTW, this is a great extension. I was able to quickly write a macro to open up three terminals and start nx serve X in each of those terminals to get my monorepo based application building with a single command. I love it!