[Kile-devel] Macro-Recorder

[Sven B. <sve...@th...>]

Dear List

Is there a possibility to write and use short macros with Kile? I found 
WinEdt's macro recorder very useful to do some semi-automatic editing in large 
texts by writing (or recording) a macro which executes a series of editing 
commands. A simple example (not a good one): 

If I decide to convert most, but not all, italics to normal font, I could 
search for the string "\textit{". If I decide that this is an instance to be 
changed, I start the macro (by hitting an associated short-cut-key), which 
first deletes "\textit{" then jumps to the brace, that formerly concluded the 
textit-argument, and deletes it too.

This might seem useless at the first glance, but when editing a 600 pages 
document it can reduce several hours of drudgery to about 1 hour, if you 
don't have to move the cursor manually. Anyway, most macros I'm thinking of 
would be a little more complicated.

The Kile manual remains silent on user-defined macros. Since I'm new to 
Kile/Kate, I'm unfamiliar with all its functions.

Thank you for suggestions,
Sven