https://omarcrosby.com/tags/registers/ Recent content in Registers 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. https://omarcrosby.com/posts/vim-registers-all-ten-kinds-and-when-each-one-saves-you/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:53:53 -0400 https://omarcrosby.com/posts/vim-registers-all-ten-kinds-and-when-each-one-saves-you/ Vim has ten kinds of registers — unnamed, numbered, named, small-delete, read-only, expression, selection, black-hole, alternate-file, and last-search. Most Vim users know two of them and lose work to the other eight. This is the reference post: what each register is for, when it saves you, and the concrete recipes that turn registers from trivia into a daily tool. Third in a four-part Vim series.