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Documentation macro

The first Editor macro is doc. Typing doc into a Script field and pressing Tab will populate some JSDoc-type headers for a function/method, including things space for a description of the code, what it expects as parameters, and what it returns. JSDoc is an important JavaScript documentation standard which organizes and simplifies your code documentation so that IDEs can read and present it to anyone who may call your code in the future, as instruction on how to call it, and what to expect from it:

You can also automatically generate a class method for use within a Script Include, which already has the JSDoc header included. ...