Adding Macro Menu items from external file

[Regretfully]

Hi!

Is it possible to add macro menu items using the autoload.nm file? defining subroutines work fine but when i try to create a macro menu item i get syntax error. I am trying to achieve a way to roll out tools to multiple users without having to mess with their nedit.rc file to add macro menu items, appended sample code below:

autoload.nm

load_macro_file("/home/a394186/.nedit/macrotest.rc")
###############

macrotest.rc

nedit.macroCommands:
Test:::: {\n
dialog("Testing")\n
}\n
################

Kind Regards,

[eteran]

Right, I don't think you can use the autoload.nm like that but one thing to keep in mind is that NG uses a new multi-file configuration file system found in $HOME/.config/nedit-ng/

In there, is a macros.yaml so if you want all your uses to have the SAME set of macros, you could just distribute that file alone maybe?

[eteran]

I can certainly look into some sort of side loading system of that kind to see if it is doable without major changes.

[Regretfully]

For posterity's sake:
launching nedit with "nedit -import filewithmacros" does pretty much exactly what I want. Except it would be nice to be able to have it in the autoload.nm file somehow.

[eteran]

Right, and that would work in nedit-ng too I believe. However, my only concern with that approach is that the moment a user saves their settings, they will save the combination of their settings and the macros back into their settings.

This may be no problem at all, but it does mean that if you update filewithmacros in the future, they may not see them, or possibly they'd see both.

This is because it's not really designed as a feature to include settings so much as it is to import settings.

[eteran]

For the record, I do like your load_macro_file idea though and will likely implement it :-)

[Regretfully]

I agree about the problems with saving their settings... I might have to find some other workaround, perhaps a wrapper that parses the users nedit.rc and checks for updates to the macro items... Thank you very much for the discussion. Its not easy these days to reach any community working with nedit.