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                           Macros and Keystacking


     GoldED has a simple keyboard  macro facility, which you can  use to
     automate certain  common operations.  In addition,  a "keystacking"
     facility allows you to create simple automatic macros on the fly.


     The macro definition  syntax is modelled  after the syntax  used in
     the QEdit text editor:

          <assignment-key> Macro     <commands or keys>
          <assignment-key> AreaMacro <commands or keys>
          <assignment-key> EditMacro <commands or keys>
          <assignment-key> FileMacro <commands or keys>
          <assignment-key> ListMacro <commands or keys>
          <assignment-key> NodeMacro <commands or keys>
          <assignment-key> ReadMacro <commands or keys>

     Macros are  defined in  the GOLDKEYS.CFG  file, where  you can also
     find several examples.

     By using the word "Auto" as <assignment-key>, you can even define a
     special macro which will  be automatically executed when  you start
     GoldED.


     Keystacking is a special form of auto-macros. You simply specify  a
     bunch of keys  to be "stacked"  in the (special  internal) keyboard
     buffer for sequential execution.

     You can  either specify  a default  set of  keystacking in the .CFG
     configuration file, or override  any default keystacking by  typing
     the keystack definitions  at the GoldED  commandline or the  GEDCMD
     environment variable.

     See the Key Reference chapter for a list of the key symbols you can
     use in macros and keystacking.