https://sandrocirulli.net/tags/text-editor/ Recent content in Text Editor on Sandro Cirulli Hugo en-gb Sat, 04 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://sandrocirulli.net/how-to-write-a-macro-in-vim/ Sat, 04 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://sandrocirulli.net/how-to-write-a-macro-in-vim/ <figure><img src="../../img/vim_drill_small.jpg" alt="Vim Power Tool"><figcaption> <p> <a href="https://www.vim.org">Image: vim.org ©</a></p> </figcaption> </figure> <p>Vim is my favourite text editor. It takes a bit of a learning curve to get used to its quirks but it is time well spent if you are doing lots of stuff on the command line or don’t have access to a GUI. I never used emacs so I won’t go into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war">editor war</a>.</p> <p>Macros in vim allow to record a sequence of commands and play them back in one go. Here is a cheat sheet adapted from <a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Macros">vim tips</a>:</p>