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I have installed the extension.
I edited editormacros in settings.json with the sample from the extension

{
"editormacros": {
"addSemicolon": {
"type": "command",
"args": {
"commands": [
"cursorEnd",
{
"command": "type",
"args": {
"text": ";"
}
}
]
}
}
}
}

So from here I opened a file, placed the cursor, and did shift cmd P to open command pallette
and selected Run a Macro
A blank box came up with no macro to select to run.
I must admit it took a lot of work to find what commands to run.
But then I found in the command pallete List all the commands that can be used in macros.

What am I doing wrong.
Should I see a new macro addSemicolon when I select Run a macro in the command pallete

I really would like to get this going.
Thanks Jim S.

It appears that character-class escapes like \s and \d, are ignored...

The following example does not match the digits...

    {
        "type": "replace",
        "args": {
            "regex": true,
            "replaceAll": true,
            "multiline": false,
            "searchPattern": "^(\d+)\t(.*)$",
            "replacePattern": "{ 'nr': $1, 'pind': '$2'},"
        }
    },

Hi, thanks for a very useful VSCode extension. How do I properly escape $1 in replacePattern so that it inserts a bracketed content () from searchPattern? Thanks!