https://omarcrosby.com/tags/automation/ Recent content in Automation on Omar Crosby https://omarcrosby.com/images/og.jpg https://omarcrosby.com/images/og.jpg Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:53:54 -0400 https://omarcrosby.com/posts/vim-macros-from-record-and-replay-to-reshaping-thousands-of-lines/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:53:54 -0400 https://omarcrosby.com/posts/vim-macros-from-record-and-replay-to-reshaping-thousands-of-lines/ A Vim macro is a recorded sequence of keystrokes that you replay against a range, and it is the tool that beats sed, awk, and multi-cursor for irregular structural edits. This is the reference post: recording, replaying, applying over ranges, editing a macro as text in a register, recursive macros, and the specific patterns that make macros a daily tool. Fourth and final in the Vim series.