Is there any way to insert comments in macros?

Cheerz,
Paolo

I'm afraid not!

A real klutzy method is to use Find "comment text" in your macro


Find "comment .... start of loop to do something"
Find "comment .... end of loop to do something"


Since nothing will be found, the macro will carry on, if you have checked the "Continue if a Find with Replace not found" option when you created the macro.

The format doesn't matter as long as the comment text can't possibly exist in your text file.

You can use as many of these as you want.

Not great, but better than nothing until the real thing comes along.

Inray wrote:I wonder when IDM will implement a true scripting feature in UltraEdit.

That would be good, although what's already there is pretty powerful. If they go the full language way, they need to preserve the recording ability - say the way Word and Excel do it.

Paolo

This is only an opinion, but I think what we have is not perfect, but almost good enough. I do occasionally suffer from the lack of simple math, nested loops, good regex, and comments.

The nice thing about the UE macro language is that you can do a tremendous amount without really knowing any programming. The syntax and functions are specific to text editing, and are very easy to understand.

The last time I recorded a simple macro in Word, I got about three pages of code, 90% of it unnecessary.

mrainey56 wrote:This is only an opinion, but I think what we have is not perfect, but almost good enough. I do occasionally suffer from the lack of simple math, nested loops, good RegEx, and comments.

I agree it's pretty good. But as you say, it could be better (in some places)

The nice thing about the UE macro language is that you can do a tremendous amount without really knowing any programming. The syntax and functions are specific to text editing, and are very easy to understand.

Yes. This is so. But as I hinted previously, one of the best part is that it records so you can get a head start on writing the "production" macro.

The last time I recorded a simple macro in Word, I got about three pages of code, 90% of it unnecessary.

Agreed (well, perhaps I record smarter macros, only about 50% of mine are unnecessary ) . But it's the recording bit that helps you find the "gold" amongst all that dross - when you can't figure how to do something... I'll let Word tell me!

SO, my message is.... Don't go to anything fancier - without retaining the ability to record...

Paolo