[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Recording macro instead of scripting

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:36:18PM +0100, stobieck wrote:
> Maybe easiest to implement and use would be
> macro recording.
> Assume, that you have additional command,
> which can record sequence of keys.
> 
> Now, instead of remembering on every two turns
> oabout this alone settlers making road,
> you can just swith macro on, and then
> press:
> Arrow-Left, R, Arrow-Left, R, PgUp, R, Arrow-Left, R etc
> Macro is breakied when unit is activated manually.

I don't think this would work well ... how often do you really
want to repeat a *key* sequence?  I don't think it describes the action
at the right abstraction level.

-- 
Reinier