Macro capture

[byorgey]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When exploring a world or challenge scenario manually, I often execute a series of commands that I later want to turn into a definition.

Describe the solution you'd like
I'd love some kind of "capture macro" shortcut which takes the n most recent REPL inputs and... somehow spits them out in a definition suitable for copy-pasting into a .sw file. Like maybe it just sticks the definition in the clipboard? I also don't really know what n should be, or if it should be configurable at all.

[kostmo]

See also #821

[byorgey]

See also #821

Ah, I had forgotten about that! That will definitely help me in the short term. Longer term I still think this could be a nice feature to have, which would do a similar thing but in a more user-friendly way.

[xsebek]

@byorgey would it not be best to pretty-print the base environment to a file? You could then remove the unnecessary parts.

[byorgey]

@xsebek That would be useful too, but it's different than what I'm proposing here. I am concerned with the situation where you have typed a sequence of commands at the REPL, but you have not used def to create a definition. I want to extract that sequence of commands into a definition. For example, suppose you typed

> move
> move; move
> turn left
> m10
> turn right
> grab

and then you hit the "capture macro" shortcut; it would place the following in your clipboard, suitable for pasting into a .sw file:

def macro6 =
  move;
  move; move;
  turn left;
  m10;
  turn right;
  grab;
end

Or something like that, anyway.

[xsebek]

Ah, I copy it from history after quit:

tail -n 6 ~/.local/share/swarm/history

It would be nice to copy a selection of REPL lines in the game, though.