Questions tagged [macro]
A macro is a recording of typed commands that can be executed later. Macros are stored in registers; recording a macro can be done with q, and you can run them with @.
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How to search for yanked text in a macro?
How do I search for yanked text in a macro properly?
I tried the following:
qq (start a macro)
yi" (yank text inbetween ", let's say the yanked text is foo)
/
press ctrl + r
" (I ...
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How to get floating result in expression register?
I want to write a macro to set line height in fraction.
font-size: 18px;
line-height: 22px;
The problem is with expression register.
I set 2 variables
@f = font-size
@h = line-height
And
=@h/@f - ...
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How to use a variable from register in command mode?
I have a list of cities
London
Madrid
Paris
Brasil
I want to write a macro, that will add a ul tag and wrap each city in to an li.
I think, i need to create a variable like:
let i = 4
Than to write ...
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How to prevent an extra newline from being appended to macros ending with a newline? [duplicate]
If I save a macro by typing:
:let @s='/{<C-v><C-m>'<Enter>
which looks like:
:let @s='/{^M'
the macro that is actually saved is /{^M^M,
with an extra linebreak (that I did not type)...
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Update the display when :normal is busy
The [n]vim manual on :normal says "The display is not updated while ":normal" is busy". Is there a way to have it do so? If not, is there a plugin that defines its own version of :...
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individual macros function but combined macros do not
I am trying to bruteforce the caesar shift cipher in vim. I have recorded three macros f, a, and d where f copies the line and a applies a caesar shift to all elements on the line by calling macro d ...
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What is @q doing?
I accidentally typed @q instead of :q and the file closed. I checked if I have a macro defined by using :reg q. It shows a long string of jibberish.
Is it possible to find out exactly what function @q ...
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is there something like `%` but for matching double quotes
I'm working on some HTML files that are formatted weirdly. Each individual class is on a separate line which makes the file (imo) difficult to read.
Something like:
<div class="
classA
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Break line after the n-th comma
Suppose I have the next line
1,0,10,10,9,7,7,5,41,3,57,7,1,9
I want to split it into several lines, each containing n commands for example, for n = 4
1,0,10,10,
9,7,7,5,
41,3,57,7,
1,9
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How do you repeat the last ex command in a macro?
If I do qq:diffthis<CR><C-w><C-w>@:q, the macro @q does not work as expected, since the command line history is not updated when ex commands are performed in macros, and ...
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How does recording a macro differ from defining a macro directly?
In my Vim configuration, I have mapped the <C-j> key to <cmd>bn<CR>, but because the C-j key corresponds to the null character in Vim, this causes some strange issues when defining ...
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How to join multiple lines which doesn't include space at the end
I'm working on a subtitle document (.srt) which has thousand of lines. But this issue is not about the subtitle documents, I going to export as plain text to read after. To see the dialogs line by ...
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How to Make Macros Stop with Custom Motion?
I am writing a custom Vim motion. The problem is that when used in a macro (especially at the end of a macro), the macro does not automatically stop when the motion no longer applies.
For example, if ...
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How to split view all buffers in vim with equal distribution vertical horizontal
How can I split view all buffers in vim with a distribution between vertical and horizontal? Is there a plugin?
I know how to make all buffers appear in either horizontal or vertical splits:
:ball
:...
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How do I create a macro (q<letter>) which goes to the end of a line and deletes one or two characters?
I'm refactoring the logger code in my software.
The old log message ends with either ); or just ; at the end of a line and I want to remove those characters and add a new line with some additional ...
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Run macro on visual selection only. [Evaluate an Iterator to consecutive numbers]
How can we run the macro on only the visual selection?
The macro that we want to run is / id: 1,^Mf1s^R=i^M<C-c>:let i += 1^M (where (as given in this SO answer) ^M happens to be the way vim ...
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How to save a macro (for quickly printing a variable)?
I'm trying to create a macro for an action that I very frequently use in Python: printing a variable in a bright color so it can easily be found in the traces while debugging.
So lets say there's ...
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Inserting the content of a register where a macro is recorded results in control characters becoming unicode characters
If I hit Ctrl+V and then Escape while in insert or ex mode, I get ^[ as a single character.
If I hit qqEscapeq and then go see :registers, I see that q contains ^[<80><fd>a, which are ...
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Macro doesn't run properly when executed with :bufdo or :argdo
I have a macro that looks like:
:reg a
Type Name Content
c "a /^where^MkV%yGo^M-- Some typing...:^[pVG:!/tmp/t.sh^M
It works fine from any starting position in the file when I replay it ...
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How to reference a register in an ex command
I'm trying to write what I thought would be a simple macro to take some values that have been yanked into some registers (a & b) and use bc to do some addition with those values.
Here is the ...
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Macro not working as expected
I have a list such as follows
apple
banana
cherry
I am trying to write a macro that will get it in this format (I am writing a .yaml file)
- "apple"
- "banana"
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Trouble running Ex commands after normal mode commands in a macro
I have the following macro:
ggdG"+p
:try|%s/\V${NodeName}/${N=SwisEntity;M=DisplayName}/|catch||endtry
:try|%s/\V${IP}/${N=SwisEntity;M=IP_Address}/|catch||endtry
:try|%s/\V${IP_Address}/${N=...
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Is there a way to disable plugins during macro recording and execution?
Is there a way I can disable specific (or all) plugins when recording a macro and then when playing back the macro?
I've had an issue where a plugin that automatches ( with ) that stops a macro that ...
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Problem with vim macros. Limitation to letters In the alphabet
Hello I like vim but their seems to be a limited macro system from what I understand. The documentation I have
says to specify a letter to define the macro. Does this mean that I a restricted to the ...
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Macro inserts wrong and weird text
I have a data that looks like
:stuff #object[java.time.Instant 0x4ddb2473 "2016-03-04T00:00:00Z"],
:stuff2 #object[java.time.Instant 0x62bc763e "2046-04-01T00:00:00Z"],
I want to ...
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How to execute a macro until we encounter a character
How can I repeat the execution of a macro until a character is encountered?
For example (just an example, it's not the original problem I want you to solve)
I want to convert a CAPITAL_CAMEL_CASE to ...
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Function call in macro
I have a function (from here) that requires an argument enclosed in quotes.
if !exists('*Preserve')
function! Preserve(command)
try
" Preparation: save last search, and ...
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Can macros be edited? [duplicate]
I want to end up in insert mode after a macro. Is there a way to do that?
A real life example:
Given "foo", I'm wanting to convert it into "$123" where the number is something I ...
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Vim - Yanking a set/number/block of lines, and inserting/appending them before/after another set/number/block of lines?
If I have two 'sets' of lines, each consisting of X number of lines (but the lines differing in their individual lengths), can I yank one set and insert (or append) it to the other?
To illustrate, can ...
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Escaping ' (apostrophe) in \\' (leader leader apostrophe) in a @let statement inside .vimrc
I have mapping \\' (leader leader apostrophe) within my .vimrc.
The mapping works just fine.
I have recorded a macro to key e using this mapping.
qe ... steps ... q
The macro works just fine.
then I ...
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Escape key adds extra bytes into the register when recording a macro [duplicate]
When I try to record a macro that involves hitting Esc the following bytes are added to the register <80><fd>a for example if I type qq<Esc>q when I :echo @q I get back ^[<80>&...
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Increment number for every 10 lines
The file consists of 2 columns (code and percentage). We need to add 2 more columns with increasing number for 4th column (Xcols) and increment 3rd column (Ycols) only for every 10 lines with reset of ...
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Replace " ... " strings of various length with strings that all end at same column but start at different columns for each row
I have the following text
Plan based ................................. 32
Iron based in Compound .............................. 34
Gallium Arsnide based III-V ............ 36
...
Indium ...
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Regex macro to remove only lines NOT containing specific content
Given a word list, I would like to delete all lines that do not have a specific content.
For illustration, In the following list, I would like to delete all lines that do not end in s.
bird
chairs
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How to copy a Vim macro to another Vim instance without clipboard support (i.e., no `+` register)?
Cross-posting from Stackoverflow because I keep forgetting about this site...
Have a macro where a visually selected text will be made a markdown link and once the macro executes it leaves Vim in ...
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Is it possible to generate a list of increasing numbers from a list of fixed numbers on vim?
Let's say I have a file that contains a specific number that is always the same, something like the following:
1 1000
10 1000
100 1000
1000 1000
10000 1000
100000 1000
1000000 1000
10000000 1000
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Is there any way of copying a macro inside a register to a different register?
I've discovered I can execute vim macros from the command line using the following command:
vim myfile -c "argdo norm @aZZ"
This command executed from the command line will execute a macro ...
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Append a line after matched multiline pattern
i want to run this global command :
/3)\(.*\n\?.*\)\{1,10\};;/
which matches multlines. I want to append a line after the matched block(of lines) across multiple buffers. I don't know where to begin ...
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How to save a macro which does not shift cursor position
I have to do </^< a whole lot. So I created a macro: let @w = '</^<Enter' (where Enter is entered via Ctrl+V M).
But when I run it with @w it shifts the cursor down one line - which is NO ...
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Terminal window interprets quick initial q as macro record
I have a function that opens a terminal window running some program. The program is quit by pressing q. But when I press q in the terminal window shortly after (within 1-2 seconds) of it being opened, ...
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in-place replacement of code in HTML documents with TOhtml?
I'm working on some old HTML documentation, where are multiple code snippets (several lines long). I need to replace this old HTML-ized code with new one using modern styling.
What I have now:
... ...
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Does ":norm! @q" use mapped keys inside the macro?
The documentation for :norm[al][!] states that "mappings will not be used" when the ! is written.
Consider the following setup commands:
:nnoremap \c Chello<esc>
:let @q = '\cIthis is ...
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Finding where one word is close to another word: parametrized command in vimrc
I asked this question, about how to find where one word is close to another word, and Quasimodo gave the very fine answer:
/\vaid(\W+\w+){,3}\W+country
Now I want to parametrize this command into ...
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Use normal command output as variable
I want to be able to use some normal commands I tend to use in the day to day as an input for another function, for example 4X, I would like 4X to be expanded to XXXX and then use it in a function as :...
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Undo <count> macro instances
Often I would record a macro and run it till end of file like 200@q. However, there may be a few lines/instances at the bottom I don't want to run the macro on (like 5 lines). Pressing u would undo ...
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How to paste/merge 2 blocks of text in vim
I search a way to paste/merge 2 block of text
block A
apple
pear
banana
block B
tomato
beans
potato
to this
apple tomato
pear beans
banana potato
I'm looking for an easy way to do this using macros....
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Conditional search and replace using repeated macro or commands
I want to search for a keyword, and replace a word in the line that is not a search word. I thought macros may be a good way to do it, but I am open to any methods.
I have something like,
blah blah
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How do I, in a macro, yank a word which might be just one letter long?
I am writing a macro a part of which is supposed to extract verse numbers from a string such as 11.1, standing for "verse one in canto eleven". I search /11\.\zs. The cursor now is in the right place. ...
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How to use macros or any other way to add @Column and turn the below code into snake_case from camelCase?
Say that I have a java class with these fields(included only few fields, but the idea is that there could many more fields).
public class Entity {
private String firstName;
private String ...
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How do I get my signature with a date inserted in my changelog?
Whenever I make an update to the changelog of a Debian package, I have to update the signature with the correct date (well, it's not mandatory, but it's really nice to have).
The signature looks like ...
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