How to programmatically update an action in another macro?

[peternlewis]

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Create Text Expansions Macro

Here is a macro that lets you create simple text expansion macros. Simply fill in the text of the action with lines like: trigger:text where trigger is the Typed String trigger you want and text is the text you want to expand to. Then select all the actions and click the Try button at the bottom to run them once and it will create a macro for each expansion. There is no trigger on the macro since its not going to be a macro you want to run except occasionally. Note that to create a new exp…

for an example of creating a macro.

You can edit actions in a macro by assigning the xml using AppleScript. So it would not be very difficult to do what you want to do.