Online text macro tool for doing repetitive tasks
Sometimes when programming, I realise that I have to do some very repetitive actions. An example could be changing a text file from one syntax to another:
1
2
3
->
var =
["1",
"2",
"3"].
Adding a 3rd parameter to all calls on a given function. Comment out every line containing a call to a given function.
The repetitive text operations I have come across are very different, and as I encounter them I update the tool http://textmacro.com to provide the operations implemented in javascript.
Am I the only one who encounter problems that cannot be solved by the common "Search / Replace" function?
If you have ever needed some macro function for changing many lines of code, please tell me what operation you were performing.
I hope to make a free and useful tool that can free us for that boring repetitive work, so please give me your opinion.
Re: Online text macro tool for doing repetitive tasks
Hey, that's pretty neat. I'd be even more useful if you added a privacy policy to the effect of "we don't store any data you submit for longer than it takes to process".
Re: Online text macro tool for doing repetitive tasks
It actually never stores any data. Everything is done client side with javascript, so no need to worry there, but I might add a small label telling that nothing will be stored or even processed by the server.
Thanks for the idea.