Mastering the Macro Machine @TestDouble
Mastering the Macro Machine  @TestDouble
Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Do you want to know more about how to use macros in Vim? In this talk, learn tips and tricks for mastering macros in Vim with an example project.

This talk was presented at VimConf 2021 by Camilo Payan.

00:00 Introduction
00:17 Introducing StandardRB tasks
00:41 Movements
01:16 Macros
01:47 Basic macro demonstration
02:36 Appending to a macro
03:12 Vim registers
03:40 Editing macros using registers
04:00 Inline vim movements
05:56 Prefixes for macros
06:58 Suffixes for macros
08:34 Creating a table of contents for a README file
09:06 Marks and jumps
12:17 Recursive macros
13:40 Lazy redraw
14:16 Thank you!
15:14 Questions and answers
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