From: Sammy Mitchell 
David Marcus[SMTP:DavidMarcus@MindSpring.com] wrote:
> Is there a way to record a keyboard macro and have recording stop after you
> start a process such as spell checking?
> 
> For instance, i want to record a macro that closes my current file, does a
> search and replace on the next file, and starts spell checking it.  Is 
here
> any way to do this?
Try the following - it seems to work for me, your mileage may vary!
/**************************************************************************
  Turn off keyboard macro recording at any time.  Assumes that  is
  your key to toggle recording.  If not, change the constant below.
 **************************************************************************/
constant TOGGLE_KEYMACRO_RECORDING = 
/**************************************************************************
  Hooked routine that gets called just after every keypress, but before the
  key is given to the editor to process.
  If we are currently recording a keyboard macro, and the 'toggle macro
  recording' key is pressed, turn keyboard macro recording off.
  This allows us to turn off keyboard macro recording at *any* time the
  editor reads a key.
 **************************************************************************/
proc AfterGetKey()
    if Query(KbdMacroRecording) and Query(Key) == TOGGLE_KEYMACRO_RECORDING
        Set(KbdMacroRecording, off)
        Set(Key, -1)			// tell TSE to ignore the key
    endif
end
proc main()
    Hook(_AFTER_GETKEY_, AfterGetKey)
end
-- 
Sammy Mitchell,  SemWare Corp.
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