Script Paste Macro

[urban frost]

Genuine question, is using script paste macros bad? (Not copying other people’s scripts, making ur own just saving time instead of rewriting every time)

The video shows what I mean, these scripts aren’t stolen, self made so I don’t have to rewrite it every time I make a new baseplate or script.

[stray wolf]

what

[stray wolf]

weird but do whatever you want

[pine whale]

you can just copy and paste?

[urban frost]

way easier than that

If I’ve got 10+ things say idk part tween gui tween uh some random math.random code etc it’s easier to simply type whatever say “/tsgui” “/tspart” “/mr” etc instead of go into idk notepad or wtvr and find the file and then copy paste it

[urban frost]

Airbaalllll

[pine whale]

just remember then fr

[unkempt crescent]

right 😭 what is this dude talking about

[narrow mural]

** You are now Level 1! **

[urban frost]

????

I do remember

It saves time

[urban frost]

is it really that hard to comprehend 😬

[azure jasper]

Handy for variables, I use autocomplete too

[unkempt crescent]

its not that its just abnormal

but if it works for you just do it

[urban frost]

Gotcha

[urban frost]

Abnormal? Not really

[unkempt crescent]

i mean ive never seen it before

[urban frost]

Oh right

Ik a lot of people save them as a script in the Roblox upload script section but it’s weirder n more awkward

[celest wave]

This is completely normal, I use Visual Studio Code which has a "snippets" feature that does exactly this.

Additionally for those service imports, i'd recommend automatically inserting them at the top if they don't already exist when typing out the service name from anywhere in the file. You can also do this with requires and it saves so much time (luau lsp has this).

*Though an important thing to note, if your ever writing a snippet for something you should really make sure there isn't a better way to write the code. Its easy to use snippets to create a lot of bad copy pasted code fast.

For example, instead of pasting that user input service snippet every time you need to get input, it might be a better idea to write a module that abstracts user input (with key rebinding, any state management stuff you do frequently, etc) and give it a cleaner and more friendly API to work with.

As an example of this, here is an abstraction I wrote for user input. It handles separate keys depending on the platform type, key rebinding by users, and automatically stops listening for input when it goes out of scope. If I had just used snippets for this, my codebase wouldve been much messier and harder to maintain.

[stable tinsel]

what is this called

i want one them

so i dont need to write all of it

[urban frost]

Yhhh snippets that’s what it’s called, not a macro my bad haha, and yeah I usually do that if ur saying what I’m thinking, was just showing an example of the snippets.

[urban frost]

You need to write it

Just not over and over again

It’s somewhat like a permanent function across all ur games but better

[urban frost]

That’s a lot more advanced than my current self though haha

[stable tinsel]

how

tell me

[urban frost]

🤷