set cursor to mark not working?

[Nobody/Anonymous]

hey there,

first, thanks for doing this. I want to do something pretty simple, I think:

mark where the cursor is
find some other thing and copy it to the clipboard
come back to where I marked where the cursor was
paste what's in the clipboard

so I did:

set mark
find…
set cursor at mark
paste…

but the cursor isnt returned to the marked location, it goes to the top of the
file, a few chars in from the left

any thoughts?

thanks

[Ernest]

It's been a while since I've looked at this, but I think I see what's going on
here.

You used the command "set mark", which is an Eclipse command. What you need to
is use is "mark selection start" (or end) instead, which is the companion to
"set cursor at mark". You should be able to just go in and edit the macro to
switch the command.

A tip for the future: it is sometimes helpful to select the checkbox: "show
only user defined macros and macro support commands" when you have to manually
add commands of this kind to filter out a lot of extra Eclipse commands.

Here's one I recorded that searches for 'horizontal':
<macrodefinition><![CDATA[<editormacros> </editormacros></macrodefinition>

<macro id="user-content-CopyToMark" lastused="1286034343300" name="SearchAndCopy" runascompound="true"> </macro>

<description> </description>

<searchstring><![CDATA]]]><![CDATA[></searchstring>

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[Nobody/Anonymous]

hey, thanks for the help

ok, so mark selection start gives me a marker wherever the cursor is, if
nothing is selected

[Ernest]

Yes, I believe if there is no selection, then the selection start is the same
as the selection end, and both are the same as the cursor position.