Is there a macro recorder for Eclipse? [closed]

Is there a good Eclipse plugin for recording and playing back macros?

I've tried this one, but it didn't do me any good- it seemed like it wasn't ready for prime time.

I know about editor templates, but I'm looking for something that I can use to record my keystrokes and then apply multiple times against a wad of text.

This seems like a strange hole in an IDE. Am I missing some built-in facility for this?

Solution 1:

I put something together over the last month or so that you may find useful. It has limitations since the Eclipse editor/commands weren't designed with macro support in mind, but I think it works reasonably well. I just posted Practical Macro at SourceForge a couple of days ago. It requires Eclipse 3.4.

Solution 2:

Emacs+ Version 3.x adds keyboard macros (http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus) to its feature set.

Solution 3:

This seems like a strange hole in an IDE, am I missing some builtin facility for this?

This is a common problem. There are around four bugs opened in Eclipse tracker for this. Unfortunately you would probably see macros in Eclipse in v4.0 or later.

Solution 4:

I've had success using AutoHotKey (Windows only, though).

Solution 5:

There was a plug-in called Eclipse Monkey which allowed writing scripts that execute inside the IDE. It was terminated about a month ago due to lack of interest.

It is based on an older plug-in called Groovy Monkey. If you google it, you can still get it. The Aptana team has some more information on using it.

Note that this allows writing scripts, but not recording actions.