Send macros like @TAB or @CRLF twice or more

[ianC]

Hello,

 

I may have missed something (can't find in forum or doc), but is there a way to play a macro multiple times without typing :

"Some text : " & @TAB & @TAB & "text again" 

Or

"Some text" & @CRLF & @CRLF & "some other text"

 

I imagine something like this, but tried several things that didn't worked :

"Some text : " & @TAB*2 & "Some other text"

 

 

[Jos]

What is a Macro?  
You simply posted some string without any function, so try first to explain exactly what you are doing and post the full code you have tried and isn't working.

Jos

[RTFC]

#include <String.au3>
MsgBox(0,"",_StringRepeat(@TAB,2) & "hello")

 

[Danp2]

Maybe he's trying to trigger a predefined "macro"? In that case, take a look at HotKeySet.

[ianC]

I'm talking about theses macro : https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/macros/Directory.htm

 

@RTFC pointed out a working solution, thanks 👍

 

[TimRude]

On 3/1/2023 at 8:02 AM, ianC said:

I imagine something like this, but tried several things that didn't worked :

"Some text : " & @TAB*2 & "Some other text"

If you're just wanting a quick way of adding 2 @TAB's without having to type them, try typing tab2 and then pressing the spacebar in Scite. Want 2 @CRLF's? Try cr2 and then spacebar.

Then have a look towards the bottom of the Options menu for this:

There you can see other quick shortcuts to typing things in Scite.

Assuming, that is, that you've installed the full version of SciTE4AutoIt3 from https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit-script-editor/downloads/