How To Use Vim/Neovim Macros For Next Level Productivity

Everything you need to know about Vim/Neovim to take your productivity to the next level and make it a lot easier & faster to complete repetitive tasks. Hope you enjoy it!
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⏰ Timestamps
00:00 - introduction
00:18 - registers
01:57 - macros overview
03:08 - modifying macros
04:07 - repeatable macros
07:04 - appending to macros
08:18 - combining macros
09:23 - conclusion

[@joseanmartinez]

Hey guys! After making this video, I realized that the repetitive nature of the macros I showed here isn't precisely recursive. To make a macro recursive, it needs to call itself. This will make the macro execute until it reaches the end of the file or doesn't fulfill a certain condition. Its essentially the same as doing something like 100@r to change 100 console.logs as in the video, but instead of specifying a number of times to repeat, the macro just calls itself and will execute until there are no more "console.logs" left. You can learn more about this here: vim.fandom.com/wiki/Record_a_recursive_macro.

[@manrique.varela]

Great video, I didn't know macros were saved in registers I learn so much with your content, keep up with Vim videos.

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that!

[@moomincare]

Finally, a new video! I've been eagerly waiting for your content. Your videos are always amazing. Keep up the great work!🎉🎉

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!! Sorry about the delay, I was out of office for a couple of weeks.

[@stoicfloor]

Thank you so much for this video! Finally some vim/nvim content that is not for complete beginners. I have been using nvim for years and I didn't know about pasting and editing macros; they made me go "wow!" while watching your magic. I relly enjoy this video format of yours; such high quality video output. Keep up the great work!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!!

[@jeppe7328]

Golden content, straight to the point!

[@user-hh4br5tk5p]

This is great. Thank you so much as always!

[@samyak039]

good video, was pretty informative. been using vim/neovim for about ~5 years, but didn't explored the macro in this depth. enjoyed it and learned too!

[@alfredomenezes8814]

Really nice to know that, thank you!

[@robertojimenez8412]

love this video❤ concise but pretty useful

[@joseanmartinez]

Happy to hear that!

[@dixitvara]

One thing you can do, you can repeat the last action if you press period ( . ) so you don’t have to repeat the same thing again

[@JoshMedeski]

Great video! Macros are so powerful, it's a helpful reminder that they can be overwritten and you can even dump the output, thanks!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thanks Josh!

[@adamdrake39]

Finally a video really explaining macros and registers nice and clearly. Great stuff!

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!!

[@ariasalmeida]

Thank you Josean !

[@colin0516]

the @@ feature blew my mind. I record macros quote often, can't believe the concept of @@ has been right under my nose!

[@joseanmartinez]

Yes! I actually learned about it recently too!

[@sarojregmi200]

Learnt some new motions looking at the video, great video thanks

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome!

[@FrancoisKerisit]

Great video, thank you ! I did not know macros were saved in register and editable.

[@CodingWithAuryn]

Thank you for this video :) i am a heavy daily vim user and still learn something :) Greetings

[@machinima1402]

Hi Josean! Love the way you explain in your videos. In neovim 0.10.0 my most recent contribution to the core was added where you can apply recorded macros to each visually selected line. This should work as well with multi-cursor selection :) Hope you find this useful. Sidenote: i'm trying to grow a streaming channel programming a few OSS contribs, do you mind if i add the channel to a reply in this comment? it's a bilingual channel.

[@joseanmartinez]

That’s awesome! Thanks for your feedback 🙏🏽 And sure thing, you can post the channel as a reply here

[@machinima1402]

@@joseanmartinez Thank you very much! The channel is "whodiscode" :) hope to see you there sometime

[@supermeia28]

Great video

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you!

[@codingwithrendi]

you make me obssessed with neovim, so i can tell everyone : "I use neovim btw :)"

[@joseanmartinez]

🚀

[@davidgroskind3233]

It looks like if you want to save your macro to use in the future, you have to open a new empty file, paste the register contents into the file, and save the file somewhere. To reuse the macro, you open the file where you want to use the macro, read the contents of the macro file into the file, and yank the line just added into a register as shown, and run the macro as shown. Seems like there should be a simple way to write the content of a register to a file the way you can write the contents of a file to a new file and a simple way to read the contents of a file directly into a register the way you can read a file into a file.

[@sayanta01]

which terminal font are you using ?

[@ErmandDurro]

Amazing content. I really enjoyed it 😃 I learned a couple of things that I didn't know, such as pasting the content of the macro, modify it and add it back. Very convenient. May I ask you what layout are you using for your corne? Would you mind sharing it? 😃

[@joseanmartinez]

Thank you! That’s great you learned some new stuff! This should be my layout: github.com/qmk/crkbd_rev1_3x6_josean.json. You can upload it to the qmk online configurator.

[@ErmandDurro]

@@joseanmartinez Great! Thanks a lot 😃

[@RYKalmante]

Hi Josean, I hope you can find the time to create a Svelte tutorial.

[@chrissmith6028]

Do you have your config dotfiles available? I have hand written mine but just happy with them. Well except my hotkey for insert iso current date time.

[@joseanmartinez]

Yes! Here you go: bit.ly/4cFlPyq

[@sadeepa_bandara]

Hey josean, I finished my nvim configuration but when I open my project it shows [lspconfig] unable to find ESLint library. I think because of that it shows so many red error like Cannot find module 'react/jsx-runtime'. can you help me please. Thanks in advance ❤ Additional: when I press space+ff it pop up find files window but when I search there it doesn't show any results. Please I need help for these ones. Update: my fzf is not working properly it shows: [Command failed: rg --files --hidden --glob "!.git/*"]

[@gbarkhatov]

Hey mate, what about a video about Helix?

[@mathiaz943]

Fantastic!

[@joseanmartinez]

Awesome, thanks!

[@chimeces]

No love for @@ ? If you want to repeat the last macro you run, you can just tap @@ and it will run it, very useful for repeating macros! And @ has more magic! Try combining it with the other special registers, like @: to run the last command line command you ran!

[@joseanmartinez]

I mention @@ in 3:05. Thanks for the tips!

[@chimeces]

@@joseanmartinez I missed it! :D great video 👍

[@joseanmartinez]

@@chimeces thank you! 🙏🏽