Installing macros for easy access

When you write a macro and save it to a file, you can run it easily by navigating to Plugins | Macros | Run..., and then select the file that contains it. However, if you are going to run a macro several times, this can get tiresome. Fortunately, you can install a set of macros for easy access by navigating to Plugins | Macros | Install.... In order to use this command, we first have to give our macro a name. This is done in the following way:

macro "Test macro" {
// The macro code goes inside the curly braces. Nothing else changes.
}

You can have several macros in a file using this naming convention. Variables can be shared between different macros if they are defined outside the macro blocks and are preceded by the var keyword. Functions defined outside a particular macro block can be accessed by any macro in the file.

We will further explain these concepts with the following example:

var common = "I'm a common variable";
// This function can be called by...