I would like mc to have the same macro mechanism as in far, are you ready to help with testing?

Question

Midnight Commander

The question is: will there be people ready to test the functionality of macros before it is merged into the main branch.
For testing you need:

1. the ability to build programs for the desired platform
   
2. having git installed
   

I’ll tell you the rest if there are questions ...
I will be very grateful if someone responds ...

Answer 1

I'm ready.

Answer 2

collect like this

git clone git://midnight-commander.org/git/mc.git
cd mc
git checkout -b 323_editor_macros origin/323_editor_macros
autogen.sh
configure --prefix=$(pwd)/TEST
make && make install
TEST/bin/mc

Answer 3

if the macro file ~/.local/share/mc/mc.macros has not been created, then you can create

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/mc/
touch ~/.local/share/mc/mc.macros
<pre>

Answer 4

to test the operation of external filters, you can put something like ctrl-W=EditPipeBlock:33 in the
[editor] section; this will mean that the external script file will be searched in ~/.local/share/mc/mcedit/macros.d/ with the name macros.33.sh the content is something like this

l Upper case selection
        TMPFILE=`mktemp ${MC_TMPDIR:-/tmp}/up.XXXXXX` || exit 1
        cat %b > $TMPFILE
        cat $TMPFILE| sed 's/\(.*\)/\U\1/' >%b
        rm -f $TMPFILE

this filter will convert the text selected in the editor to upper case.
for more information, you can look at the section about mc.menu in man mc