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tshino / vscode-kb-macro

Recordable keyboard macro for Visual Studio Code
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tshino.kb-macro
MIT License
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Saving a macro and assigning a keyboard shortcut to it #386

Closed mahadea closed 4 months ago

mahadea commented 4 months ago

So, I can use Ctrl-Alt-R and record a macro and Ctrl-Alt-P to play it back right away. But I need to "save" the macro and replay it later. I need to create many such macros. Ideally I would like to able to assign keyboard shortcuts to these macros, but I can live with going to a menu option and clicking too.

I looked thru the documentation and couldn't figure out how to do it. Am I missing something obvious? thanks

tshino commented 4 months ago

@mahadea Thank you for asking! You can save the macro.

The command Keyboard Macro: Copy Macro as Keybinding is exactly for that purpose. After recording a macro, you can use the command to get the macro definition as JSON text and paste it into your keybinding.json file to assign keyboard shortcuts to the macro. Please find the section How to save the recorded sequence for future use in the README.md.

Thank you.

mahadea commented 4 months ago

I suffered from tl;dr syndrome, mea culpa. Thanks for pointing it out. I like that I can go back and tweak the json as well!