macro recording and replaying in eclipse 3.5

Question

Hi,

which tool would you recommend for macro recording and replaying ? Is there a language as well ? I frequently switch between Eclipse and Emacs(actually Xemacs) for editing tasks.

It would be nice if I didn't have to do as frequently. That would happen if a macro language/recorder were available in eclipse. It's available in Netbeans -- so how come that is not a priority for eclipse ?

Thank you,

BR,
~A

Answer 1

There is no current macro language on Eclipse:

• Practical Macro is not compatible with current 3.5 or 3.6 Eclipse).
• The official proposal Eclipse Monkey has been withdrawn.
• And the bug 8519 records the absence of keystroke macro since 2002! (130 votes too), even though there have been some experiment.

So your best bet is right now:

• Autohotkey on Windows
• AutoKey on unix

, which are completely separated from Eclipse, but can at least record and send key events to any application.