Hi!

Currently Lazarus Editor (synedit), with a text selected, If I press

(

It erases my selection and replace it by (

Is much harder to change this to, when press ( do (my selection), instead of erase and replace my selection by ( ?

If it's easy to do, somebody can point me where I have to change to get this feature?

This is a very useful feature when writing conditions on if and while statements.

Fabio Luis Girardi wrote

This is a very useful feature when writing conditions on if and while statements.

Does Lazarus IDE support Macros? If so, that could be an even easier solution producing the same end result. Make a selection, trigger the macro with a custom keyboard shortcut, and the macro does the rest by using the selection.

Regards,
Graeme

In 1.4.4 I have

select text -> right click -> Source -> Enclose selection...* but it does not have ( ) as options,

maybe newer ones have ?

* and it has keyboard shortcuts to reach it too

-L.

Lukasz Sokol wrote

select text -> right click -> Source -> Enclose selection...* but it does not have ( ) as options,

Wow, and so I learned another new feature of Lazarus IDE. :) Some of those options I’ll be using often from now onwards.

Regards,
Graeme

2016-07-07 10:31 GMT-03:00 Lukasz Sokol :

No, Lazarus trunk don't have ( ) as option.

Fabio Luis Girardi wrote

Is much harder to change this to, when press ( do (my selection), instead of erase and replace my selection by ( ?

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/IDE_Window:_Editor_Macros http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Editor_Macros_PascalScript

Assign the below macro to the ( key/keycombo

begin
   if caller.SelAvail then begin
     caller.SelText := '('+caller.SelText+')';
   end
   else
     ecChar('(');
end.

2016-07-07 11:21 GMT-03:00 Martin Frb :

Should I to install some package on Lazarus to get this?

Martin Frb wrote

Assign the below macro to the ( key/keycombo

How do you assign keyboard shortcuts to macros. The “Edit Key” button is always greyed out.

Regards,
Graeme

Editor Macros are available by default.

The Pascal script has a selftest however. Open the options from Tools menu, and search for editor macros to see if it passed.

"Editor Macros" is an entry in the view menu. See the wiki pages I linked.

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Select an existing Macro in the list of macros (so it gets focused). Then the button become enabled. At least for me.

Make sure you move Macros to the IDE section (or Project) if you want to keep them.

Macros are also listed in the "Key Mapping" in options