A Hotkey to Repeat the Last Macro Used?

[martin]

@gglick

Fortunately, @DanThomas already wrote a macro some years ago that can show recently executed macros more easily and efficiently than parsing the log:

@gglick

I also wrote a macro a few years ago myself back when KM 8 was still new that piggybacks off Dan's work to show a further simplified list prompt of recently executed macros and lets you jump back to the editor to quickly modify whichever one you select.

Thank you very much, @gglick. I don't know how I missed that.

@ccstone also created macros to get the last N's executed macro from the Engine log, exactly what I was thinking.

MACRO: Get Recently Run Macros with Last Executed Time

Hey Folks, I ran across this topic while researching something else, and I felt like fiddling with the shell for a bit. The user can select the last N most recently run macros with a user-setting. (The macro automatically excludes the last instance of itself.) [23] -Chris KM -- Last N Macros Run v1.00.kmmacros (5.8 KB) [image]

@peternlewis

That said, a safe way to do what is asked for this question would be a macro that looked something like this:

• Grab the last line of the Engine.log file
• Switch on the line
  • If it contains "name of a macro 1"
    • Execute Macro "Name of a macro 1"
  • If it contains "name of a macro 2"
    • Execute Macro "Name of a macro 2"
  • Otherwise
    • Notify "No Acceptable Macro Found"

Hi, Peter, this is great idea, used in combination with the macros @DanThomas, @gglick, and @ccstone have made.
I may add some special characters in the macro name for multiple macros. I can do something like:

• if it contains (or maybe ends with) "special characters" (I'll probably do a RegEx search, match from the end of the macro list)
  • get the complete macro name and execute the macro.

Then I can freely rename those macros without worrying about the need to edit this macro as long as I keep those special characters untouched.

This has great usage for testing macros. Normally, I would assign a hotkey for test and then delete it after the test. But now, I only need to include the special characters in the test macros and run it once to add it to the last executed macro list. So, no need to assign a hotkey and then remove it.