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To stop recording the macro, click the “View” tab in the Ribbon. Then click the “Macros” drop-down button in the “Macros” button group. Then select the “Stop Recording” command.
Follow these steps to record a macro. On the Developer tab, in the Code group, click Record Macro. Press Alt+T+M+R . In the Macro name box, enter a name for the macro.
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.
Emacs+ Version 3.x adds keyboard macros (http://www.mulgasoft.com/emacsplus) to its feature set.
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.
I've had success using AutoHotKey (Windows only, though).
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.
This is not an Eclipse-specific one, but it can be used there as well:
http://sikuli.org/
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