Alias expansion with maco call

[vandermyer]

Hello All,

I would like to create an alias that (amongst other things) includes the file name (using sequence %\fn) but translated to upper case. I have tried various options like this: %\m upcase %\fn%, but cannot make it work. Inserting the file name works, it's the upper case bit that doesn't.

Is this possible, and if so how? Thanks.

[Clark]

That won't work for multiple reasons. There is a global scope built-in upcase() function but %\m doesn't support calling global built-in functions (design flaw in Slick-C). Also, the first % will terminate the function call. "%\m upcase %" is what gets parsed and no arguments are passed to upcase.

Put the following code in a .e file and load it. Maybe call the file "insert_upcase_bufname.e".

_str insert_upcase_bufname() {
   return upcase(p_buf_name);
}

Then %\m insert-upcase-bufname% will insert the buffer name in upper case.

[vandermyer]

Thanks Clarke. Work nicely!