Vim Macro Magic

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[@NickyTheRook]

The best part is how he did this macro live first try. Very impressive.

[@STatic4009]

Name another IDE that you can be that happy while using it.

[@NorgGrimm]

It's not an IDE.

[@ew2430]

@@NorgGrimmcorrect, but the way most people use it, it definitely is. the same way vscode isn’t an IDE but after 20 plugins and config, you have JetBrains Rider.

[@TheBusttheboss]

Emacs (not an IDE, neither is Vim)

[@greyshopleskin2315]

@@TheBustthebossemacs is not an IDE, it is a good operating system that lacks a good editor

[@reed6514]

Sledge hammer is the best editor, but it can only delete.

[@NathanHedglin]

I was there. He did it first try. Blazingly Fast

[@feschber]

It's true, I was the macro

[@bob_kazamakis]

welcome to vim, where you save so much time with your macros, you immediately lose all that gained time explaining or marveling at your own macro

[@no_name4796]

You wouldn't say you are wasting time when you have an orgasm, would you? Yeah pretty much the same applies here

[@lazycoder_9]

Whenever I have a bad mood, I watch this for 3-4 times, laugh my ass off and everything is good again

[@joelmassara5087]

Pov: you just discovered fire and are sharing it with the world

[@spicywe1ner]

And literally the next day. A better macro. This man is unstoppable

[@alexhiatt3374]

incomprehensible, thank you king

[@sexyeur]

Those people who *make* things happen, those that *watch* what happened, and those that *wonder* what happened... Hahaha

[@Axlefublr]

and here's me, thinking if there's some combination of :norm &| :s I could instead abuse to be this macro

[@mathewmorris]

Prime lookin like a one-eyed fightin Kirby over here \(*\)

[@luvjeetsingh9487]

Please make a video to explain macros in vim

[@Tekay37]

qq (do the macro) q then 5@q to repeat your macro 5 times.

[@ItzAnameOk]

:h macro

[@fincali197]

q to say that you're gonna record a macro, then a key(like w or q) to say that this macro should be named "w"(or "q"), then you record the macro, and when you're done, press q again.

[@fincali197]

To do the macro, just [count](it's optional)@name_of_the_macro(aka "w" in the example I provided)

[@luvjeetsingh9487]

@@fincali197 thanx very much but i got it after googling and chatgipty explained it to me

[@tannerted]

Love the feeling of my macros working first time. Usually with complex macros like this, I make some stupid mistake and have to do it over a couple times

[@ykhatat]

You don't need to redo it just edit it.

[@Axlefublr]

​@@ykhatathow would you edit a macro? I know of multiple ways, and none of them feel good enough to use. Maybe I'm missing something

[@ZantierTasa]

@@Axlefublr The only way I know of is to manually edit the string of keystrokes, which is only good for small, easy fixes. If the macro is in register a, on a new line type "ap to paste the keystrokes, make the edit, then yank it all back into register a with e.g. "ayiW

[@Axlefublr]

​@@ZantierTasa yeahhh this is one of the methods I tried using and disliked. The issue with it is that I need to, on the spot, occupy some sort of space in the file to edit my macro in, probably freaking out the syntax highlighting, lsp, and diagnostics in the process. it feels really messy to do. I could use :new to go edit it in a blank buffer and then close it, but at that point, what am I even doing, right? it feels like a bit more effort than it's usually worth. macros are definitely still really really important, but if I fuck up, the solution is generally messy, which is why I try to solve problems with :norm and :s when I can

[@ZantierTasa]

@@Axlefublr Yeah, I don't think it's usually worth editing macros like this. I usually just go "oops" and start the macro from the beginning.

[@paulsanchez5030]

Is this the doc. disrispect of coding? He celebrate matching patterns as a 360 no scope

[@mattmmilli8287]

not far off 😂

[@tiktalk4573]

this one aint a pedo

[@Zzznmop]

Pass me the macro and give it to me raw

[@jaralara6429]

Did I just witness a vim trickshot

[@sp3ctum]

The best part is the expressions on my coworkers' faces when I do this

[@maxoumimaro]

The next step is to do this using two bookmarks so vim in one macro will go back and forth between the pattern matching and the symbol definition and move both bookmarks down one line each time.

[@jonopens]

The mic pops to the exaltations are the artifacts of joy

[@vikingthedude]

I watched this two months ago thinking this looks too cryptic. Now after using macros for a while i am enlightened

[@nekoill]

I love this short so much 😹

[@ObsidianJai]

This short singlehandedly made me learn neovim. I had no idea wtf he was talking about and i dont like that lol.

[@sunyfilip]

Sometimes is macro really faster but sometimes it would be much faster with simple multicursor (for example like in vscode)....but hey, I am trying similar macros in vim and every time I finish it correctly it is really satisfying ^_^ so I agree it is more fun to do macros :D

[@francp]

It's happening!🎉

[@octavioavila6548]

You miss it if you blink

[@azaleacolburn]

Holy fuck he did it

[@ajzack983]

So quick even the editor couldn't catch it yayayayayaya

[@Mihaugoku]

that's a Vimgasm if I've ever seen one.

[@no_name4796]

*neovimgasm Neovim > vim

[@user-fu4ps9eb2v]

vimgasm from macrobation

[@SoKyrylo]

the edit is skippy and jittery and hides the action

[@Temulgeh]

oh i should have thought about that a few days ago when i was doing something similar

[@ohmyv3gatron]

What theme is that? =P

[@mascit]

theprimeablackmagic

[@reed6514]

I'm not sure i save time with macros like these, but i sure do enjoy using them.

[@adityakiran2956]

Which language is this and what’s going on in here? Can anybody explain?

[@TokyoXtreme]

I'm guessing it makes sense when you're able to see more of the screen. Don't people preview their own shorts before uploading?

[@linusdannull1247]

Do you use the arrows to move vertically?!?!

[@manoharsingh6050]

The truth is if I cannot understand what just happened I probably won’t need it

[@ivanheffner2587]

… said the caveman to the fighter pilot.

[@manoharsingh6050]

@@ivanheffner2587yea exactly 😂

[@aBradAbroad]

!brother

[@user-fu4ps9eb2v]

macroburtion

[@crides0]

or given the existing enum items, just do a regular expression like :'

[@farkore]

yyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

[@balatries]

I saw this live

[@mo.G_2020]

A legend here

[@RamkrishanYT]

What happened?

[@sexyeur]

😂

[@spikespaz]

I can do the same thing with a regex replace in VS Code :)

[@igorvlasiuk6432]

If you are so happy by VSCode why are you you spying on the guy who promotes vim?

[@olbluelips]

But then you have to learn regex

[@JaredVititoe]

I just had a seizure

[@Jason_Kang]

First try

[@brandonfernandez194]

xD

[@marcialabrahantes3369]

how's this different than multiple cursors in Sublime/VSC

[@Trokkin]

That got me thinking. I'm just learning vim motions, so I constantly compare them to usual vscode "motions". I did such transformations on daily basis with multiple cursors and toUppercase / toLowercase commands. Vim is powerful with moving around, sure, but is that really the greatest macro? 😮

[@justpatrick_]

Yeah multi cursors are better

[@bursthooverbag10]

You can replicate anyrhing you can do with vsc multi cursor in vim. Vsc motions are but a pale imitation

[@Trokkin]

@@bursthooverbag10 sure except what replicates multi cursor in vim requires 1-2-4 buttons to press per occurrence, which is not zero, which is an W for vsc. And hear me out, moving around is better in vim, that's a bigger W and I'm sticking with it. Just saying, this macro usage is not really impressive as prim makes it sound for me. I want something even juicier to represent vim advantage on text transformation front.

[@ardnys35]

do you mean the highlighting a word and pressing ctrl+D for creating multiple cursors? that's so nice in VSC. that saved me a TON of time when i was editing plotting functions.

[@Trokkin]

@@ardnys35 also to select all in a file. And to add one cursor up or down (C and A are short for Ctrl and Alt. Vim's already rubbed into me)

[@vaisakhkm783]

Actually, i didn't understand what he done there... How word 'return' comes there? okey understand, video cutoff at right, so didn't saw the pasted text and diw

[@JMIK1991]

He made a makro, chained each event: - Start makro at the text - Copy, Paste, Find "If", new line - pastes aboven line again - replace to copied value, upcases first letter - replaces to copied value - removes extra line - Ends makro Then he pointed at the text return, ran the macro he just made.

[@Spongman]

vim is great! it takes something that would be trivial and intuitive to do in vscode, obfuscates it entirely and makes you feel really smart, witness!

[@dima1478]

And also do it in a fraction of the time

[@_bradleystrider]

wait you think recording the exact steps you would normally do is unintuitive in vim?

[@kuhluhOG]

@@_bradleystrider I think that OP is more saying that 1. vim motions are unintuitive and 2. having basically no visual feedback about what you are recording is unintuitive (tbf, they way this is recorded thanks to YT Shorts limitations is far from ideal here; e.g. where do the word he pastes in come from? ah, outside the screen...)

[@webmandman]

i did a better macro today. for reals bro. that one was alright.

[@darthcabs]

I don't see anything happening

[@sayChristIsKing]

people convincing me to keep using vim be like that sometimes, but all I really want is easy debug and an outline tab on my sidebar out of the box, debug is the only thing that gatekeeps me from using vim fr, pure insanity that how many hoops you need to jump thorugh for the only tool that every new programmer actually need, a fucking debugger

[@alexhiatt3374]

agreed. I love NeoVim for everything else, but I could never get a debugger working. I just jump to CLion with the IdeaVim plugin when I need the debugger.

[@smjonas8616]

You dont need to use Vim for every programming-related task. Just use the best tool for the job (you dont need to turn Vim into an IDE to benefit from it).

[@AgainPsychoX]

Each time I see Primegen using Neovim I want to learn the thing, but then I realize I do the same thing daily with multi-cursors on VS Code, all with keyboard (of course custom keybindings)

[@QckSGaming]

Multi-cursor is light-years away from macros but you can get basic stuff done for sure. I was so used to it that I made my own multi-cursor for vim but now never use it

[@hil449]

Wait, vim doesn't have built-in multicursor?

[@darianmorat]

​​@@QckSGaming what are u talking about? To be more specific

[@aichrist]

Honestly, i just prefer typing all that. I can type very fast.

[@insertoyouroemail]

meh... VS Code multicursor editing is much faster.

[@evgen4681]

randomly generated words with ChatGPT does not called macros (Kappa)

[@just_A_doctor]

Nano -- migraine Emacs -- heading pain Vim -- kill me no need to the pain . Vscode ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤