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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Blue Brown Green Red Violet Yellow Message: Forum code is on. Html is off. [quote][i]Originally posted by peterchen[/i] [br]While the preprocessor is looked down upon a lot, it's still used widely. It would be valuable for debugging and diagnosis to be able to expand macros. Visual Studio offers to run only the preprocessor, but that's very unwieldy to work withif you have to deal with a macro-infested code base. (Since you seem to understand macros just fine, I see no technical obstacles. That's the main reason why I'm asking you guys ;)) The way I envision it is that I just select a section of code, hit a magic VAX shortcut, and the text is expanded and remains selected. We'd need some control over the level of expansion, maybe expanding one level per "expand macro" command. Multiple calls would expand deeper, and ctrl+Z would take me back. Just an idea i am at the very moment excited about... [/quote]   Check to include your profile signature. Check to subscribe to this topic.