The “name: ” search qualifier and what it means for a macro to “have a name”

Questions & Suggestions
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I don’t think I’ll make the same mistake again… If I do, feel free to take turns with the clue bat.[1]

In theory, it might be “nice to have” an action warning[2] appear in the Editor whenever a search quantifier is followed by a space, but I wouldn’t expect that to be at all easy to implement and it’s not as if it seems to be a common issue.[3]

I’ve added a note to that topic in order to correct my instruction to include a space![4]

  1. Oh, you say that should be cluebat? Now I’m getting stressed. ↩︎

  2. The ⚠️ sign that appears in Search and replace actions when it hasn’t been set to a regular expression mode but you’ve started typing something that looks regexy. ↩︎

  3. Other than being common to me. ↩︎

  4. A “trigger macro by name” prompt for only the active macros that you want to see - #3 by kevinb ↩︎