When you are editing a macro and you click the 'Run' button at the top of the Editor, the macro runs immediately. This is done intentionally, as the " How to Run a Macro" section of the Manual's "Macro" page says
You can try out a macro from the Keyboard Maestro by clicking the ︎ Run button at the top of the editor window. Of course, macros are often sensitive to the context, so it may not be appropriate to run them directly from the editor.
I find that it is almost always inappropriate, and therefore not very useful.
In contrast, the "Click at Found Image" action has a "Get" button (for actions that are not relative to the Found Image) that pauses for 5 seconds before running, so that you can get into the correct context.
It would be great if the 'Run' button did the same thing.
How would the Editor know if you wanted to run the macro immediately or with a pause first? I suppose you could Option-click the Run button for a 5 second pause...
Another option is to use KM's progress bar to visual show the pause. Just add this at the beginning of the macro you want to have a pause. Pause progression can be customized.
WOW!
Thank you for the fantastic answer.
I didn't know about %Trigger%.
And I wonder if I ever could have found out about this in the help wiki.
In particular, I searched for the word "editor" on the help pages for Triggers, token/Trigger, token/TriggerBase, token/TriggerValue, manual/Macro_Triggers, and it doesn't appear.
︎ Run button at the top of the editor window. Of course, macros are often sensitive to the context, so it may not be appropriate to run them directly from the editor.
