Understanding Macro Support: Do Registries and Globals Work Like Vim/Emacs Within the EmEditor Text Editing Suite?

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• December 1, 2008 at 4:36 pm #6691
  dreftymac
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  Sometimes it is useful to be able to create persistent variables in a macro that can be seen by other macros. As far as I know, if the user of emeditor wants to pass variables around between different macros, this can be done already in the following ways:

1. use the windows clipboard;
2. use the windows registry;
3. use a temporary text file;
   One problem with all of these methods is they can be a bit slow and cumbersome to use on a regular basis. Is it possible to create a macro that can directly read and write to temporary registers such as is possible with Vim or Emacs?
   December 1, 2008 at 6:11 pm #6692
   Yutaka Emura
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   dreftymac wrote:
   Sometimes it is useful to be able to create persistent variables in a macro that can be seen by other macros. As far as I know, if the user of emeditor wants to pass variables around between different macros, this can be done already in the following ways:

   1. use the windows clipboard;
   2. use the windows registry;
   3. use a temporary text file;

   One problem with all of these methods is they can be a bit slow and cumbersome to use on a regular basis. Is it possible to create a macro that can directly read and write to temporary registers such as is possible with Vim or Emacs?
   No, there are no global variables, unfortunately. I would suggest writing a sub-function to handle global variables in one of the above ways.

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