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Save a macro just created in vimrc
Yes, you can! There are a couple ways to do this. By default, all registers will be saved into your viminfo file, and loaded once you start vim. This is the easiest way. However, it's not foolproof. ...
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Visual Block Mode edit with sequential number
Depending on your usecase the following might be useful:
Create the entries all with the number "1":
- "1"
- "1"
- "1"
- "1"
Then go to the second "1" and press V to start line-wise visual. Then ...
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How do I check if Vim is currently recording a macro?
Since Vim 8.1-0020, there is a reg_recording() function that'll return the name of the current register being recorded. An empty string is returned if we are not recording.
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Can I repeat a macro with the "dot operator"?
Give this a try. It remaps @ so that g@ (plus a dummy motion l) is used afterwards, thus becoming the last operator and subject to repeating with ..
" When . repeats g@, repeat the last macro.
fun! ...
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How can I do calculations with vim Macros?
Yes, you can perform arithmetic expressions in Vim by using the expression register, which you can access from insert mode using CTRL-R.
Another alternative is to use expressions in the replacement ...
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Understand addition on numbers in Vim
If the number starts with a 0 it's interpreted as an octal number (base-8, instead of base-10). Vim also recognises hexadecimal numbers (base-16) if it starts with 0x and binary numbers (base-2) if it ...
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Can I repeat a macro with the "dot operator"?
To repeat your last macro you can use @@ so 3@@ would essentially run @q 3 times. However the @ keystrokes can be unwieldy, so in my .vimrc I have the lines:
"- Lazy macro repeat
nmap <leader&...
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How to force macro keep running even pattern is not found?
You can use :try to do that (:h :try).
Here is an example (I didn't use your macro because you posted it as an image and it's not easy to copy :) )
let @z=':try|s/foo/bar/|catch||endtry^M'
(Note ...
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Weird behaviour when repeating macro
TL;DR if you're going to make a macro, choose a letter to record to instead of any symbol.
This is very odd behavior, but it does make sense. To understand why, first we need to back up a little bit ...
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Insert code snippets?
The :r command can read a file containing a code snippet and insert it to your active buffer.
Unless I'm missing something, I believe this would address your request.
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How to force macro keep running even pattern is not found?
Since you're using the s command, you could simply use the e flag. From :help :s_flags:
When the search pattern fails, do not issue an error message and, in particular, continue in maps as if no ...
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How to create a vimrc macro using :sort?
You've already (rightly) accepted an answer that provides a much simpler method of achieving your goal, but I thought I'd address a few of the other issues raised by your question.
The problems with ...
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How to put quotation marks (') in the content of a vim macro?
you add another single quote to escape your single quote inside your vim macro
let @r=':%s/''/"/g'
from https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Macros
if your register must itself contain single quote ...
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How to execute a macro in command mode?
Use :h execute combined with :h normal, like so:
:for i in range(1,10) | if i > 5 | exe "normal @w" | endif | endfor
Short explanation: execute/exe runs it's argument as an Ex command and normal ...
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How to turn several commands into a macro without recording?
Well, if you want turn them into a macro specifically, then this is pretty easy to do. The thing you need to know about macro registers is that they are exactly the same as text registers that you cut/...
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How to play recorder macro in SpaceVim?
SpaceVim uses leaderqr instead of q because it remaps q to another function.
As far as I can tell from the documentation, @ is not used for another function: so you play back macros in the usual way: ...
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How to create a vimrc macro using :sort?
As simple as that:
nnoremap <Leader>s Vip:sort<CR>
ip is an "inner paragraph" object, i.e. a piece of text between two empty lines.
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Run macro between buffers
Just for completeness's sake (and so that this doesn't get bumped in six months by Community):
You can put a buffer command (:b) in macros. For your case:
qqggD:b#^Mo^R":b#^Mq
Where "#" is the ...
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How to insert repetitive text with minor difference in vim?
You can use the following function:
function! GenerateLines()
let firstpart="similar text part 1"
let secondpart="similar text part 2"
let words=["wordA","wordB","wordC","wordD","wordE"]
...
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Leader versus macros
I can see some confusion if you have been reading the help docs because they use some similar names even though these two things are pretty different.
The @ command will "play back" the contents of ...
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Go forward to first alphabetic character
Based on DLMcMMayhem's hint, I found that following search will do what you need:
/\A*\zs\a
\A* searches for zero or more non-alphabetic characters (equivalent to [^A-Za-z])
\a searches for any ...
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Remapping Alt key in terminal: problem with macros
The problem is caused by the way that terminals have historically handled the Alt/Meta key.
Back in the mists of history, some computers/terminals had a Meta key. When this was held down while ...
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Yank both sides of equation
This can be done with either regex+substitute or macros
Substitute. This is the same as your regex except the important parts are surrounded by \( . \) to create capture groups. These are referred ...
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How to prevent stopping a macro on unsuccessful substitution?
I've figured it out thanks to this. One needs to put an e flag to the substitution so the substitution looks like this: :%s/ \(kb\d\+\),/ \1.0,/ge. e suppresses the error message and lets the macro ...
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How can I do calculations with vim Macros?
When I see the not so short vim solution :s/\(.*\),\(.*\)/\=submatch(0).','.(submatch(1)+submatch(2))/ following statement from https://vimways.org/2019/vim-and-the-shell/ comes to my mind:
“Vim is ...
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How do I get my signature with a date inserted in my changelog?
Here's a simple, somewhat dumb solution, that doesn't require any plug-ins or anything.
Just add this snippet to your vimrc:
iabbrev <expr> debsig
\ ' -- Alexis Wilke <alexis@example....
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Can macros be edited?
I want to end up in insert mode after a macro. Is there a way to do that?
Yes! You can stop recording a macro using Ctrl+O, q (Ctrl+O is a sequence to enter a single Normal-mode command from Insert ...
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Leader versus macros
A macro is a sequence of keystrokes. Whether they are recorded or not, whether they are stored in a register or not is completely irrelevant.
Macros can be recorded in an arbitrary register with :...
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Can I repeat a macro with the "dot operator"?
You can record the use of a macro in another macro, and repeat that.
qqdwq
qr2@qq
Now 3@r is like running @q six times.
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Insert code snippets?
StandardEyre's answer is the most direct answer for the body of your question, but you may also be interested in checking out one (or several) of the many snippet plugins for Vim, such as Ultisnips, ...
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