Make macros easier to use

[V-Man]

It would be much more convenient to manage many macros if the Macros menu were cascading. This could be configured by using a '|' character in the display name to define a menu path, eg

Display name: C++ Commands|Block-Comment Selection

This would create a sub-menu under Macros called 'C++ Commands' containing the macro item 'Block-Comment Selection'. It should be possible to have more than one sub-level of the menu, by inserting more than one '|' character.

Furthermore, on the Save Macro dialog, there should be a button next to the 'Display name' box, that creates a pop-up menu replicating the sub-menu structure of the Macros menu. Clicking on an item would insert the pipe-delimited path into the 'Display name' box to save typing.

If you don't use the '|' character, then rather than appearing in the root Macros menu, the macro should appear in a special sub-menu called '(ungrouped)'. As well as providing access to the sub-menus, the root Macros menu should also also include the last 'n' used macros.

Finally I am not keen on seeing the default macro filenames in the Save Macro dialog, eg MACRO9.TPM. I would rather the filename was automatically constructed from the Display name.

[jeffy]

I still say that each document class should have 64 macros associated to it, with some of those globally accessible to all document classes.

I discuss this in another post