Per email discussion on devel list (started 11 Apr 2009, Subj: beanshell question),
the macro recorder does not completely capture user actions. The example is, while
recording, click File->New. When manually doing this, jEdit (1) creates a new buffer
and (2) places it as the active buffer in the current view. The macro recorder misses
action (2), so subsequent actions "recorded" by the user don't align.
What happens if I record closing the active buffer after creating it? When manually
doing this, the net result is an open and then closed new buffer. After recording,
the new buffer is still open, and another buffer gets closed.
The email discussion also proffered suggestions for an implementation fix.
| Submitted | hunteke - 2009-04-13 - 05:53:00z | Assigned | nobody |
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| Priority | 5 | Category | macros |
| Status | Open | Group | minor bug |
| Resolution | None | Visibility | No |
| 2009-04-13 - 20:33:59z shlomy |
Fixed in SVN rev. 14924. PLEASE NOTE: After updating to this version, you must update not only the jedit.jar file, but also the startup.bsh script under the 'startup' subdirectory of the jEdit installation. This is required because the startup script defined functions that are used by the jEdit actions now, in order to keep the predefined variables up-to-date. |
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| 2009-04-15 - 20:40:34z shlomy |
Sorry. It is not fixed. It turns out the usage of the functions in startup.bsh does
not work as expected. So this bug is still open. Also, I saw that replacing the calls to these functions with actual statements updating the variables does not always work. All solutions I've tried were quite complex. Hence, I'm resigning from it. |
| 2009-04-16 - 21:01:09z shlomy |
See here a discussion of this issue: http://marc.info/?t=123965520000003&r=1&w=2 |
| 2009-04-18 - 05:06:02z shlomy |
Recording of actions that only change the current buffer is easy to fix by updating
the global "buffer" variable at the end of the action. For actions that change the
edit pane, such as split-related actions, even updating all the predefined variables
doesn't work, probably because some of the work of these actions is delayed, and the
next action continues to execute before the current action has fully completed. Hence, macro recording cannot be fully fixed by just fixing the predefined variables after each action that modifies them. Nevetheless, for those actions that change the current buffer, this can be fixed. It may be worthwhile to add a fix only for those, since these are probably a lot more common for recording then changing of edit panes. |
| 2009-12-06 - 08:12:46z k_satoda |
Setting the resolution to None since the previous fix was reverted at r14942. http://jedit.svn.sourceforge.net/jedit/?view=rev&rev=14942 |