emacs style keyboard macros in visual studio

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emacs style keyboard macros in visual studio

Hi, I'd like to use emacs style keyboard macros in Visual Studio, which for the most part I can do through these shortcut mappings... but I can't figure out a keyboard shortcut to repeat the next command x times. In emacs, I could record my macro, then type

Esc, #, ctrl+x, e

where # is the number of times I want to repeat my macro. In my view, this was almost as important as the macro itself. How can achieve this in Visual Studio?

For that functionality you have to write your own macro, but yo'll be not able to use that shortcut, only pairs are supported...

Yakeen 2009-07-29 09:02:05

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You might wanna try XKeymacs:

http://www.cam.hi-ho.ne.jp/oishi/indexen.html

I have tried your sequence and it kind of worked on a simple macro. However, it was quite slow... Anyway, give it a shot.

Kenji Baheux 2009-08-05 21:26:56

That works nicely, although you are right, it is quite slow. Thanks!

tbischel 2009-08-06 20:58:19

Hmm, I tested it first with notepad. It doesn't work quite as well in Visual Studio... I think the intellitype stuff might be getting in the way, as it seems to work about half the time just for normal macros, and not so well for the escape repeat.Another problem was that escape repeat could only work for #'s less than 10.

tbischel 2009-08-06 21:53:59

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