god i am such a bell end.....

oh boy oh boy oh boy, feeling really stupid right now, spent best part of weekend toying with gnome and notepad++, wondering why my macros wont work. turns out the lua file i was using was 1 that i had in a folder on my desktop, not the 1 in addons folder. only found out mistake by chance, now working fine.
p.s removing macro toolkit really does work