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Latest revision as of 15:50, 24 August 2022
Home > CentOS > CentOS 6.x > Text editors > Vim > Recording macros in vim
It is possible to record a sequence of action in vim as a macro and then play it later to achieve the same result.
Recording macro
To record a macro use following steps:
- Change mode to normal mode, if not already.
- Press 'q' to start recording
- Press a single letter alphabet to store the recoding into, eg 'a'
- Perform actions that should be recorded
- If at the end of actions you are not in normal mode than press 'Esc' to go to normal mode
- Press 'q' to stop recording
Playing macro
Once a macro is recorded it can be played using '@<alphabet>' key combination in normal mode where <alphabet> is the single letter alphabet where the recording was stored. The same macro can be played many times by using vim's repeat syntax '<number>@<alphabet>'
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