vim recording and execution macro 2019-06-16 12:27

Using macros to perform repetitive operations is a very efficient way. In this page I will show you how to use it.

Recently I am translating some English articles into Chinese. I need to enter two Chinese spaces at the beginning before I translate a paragraph. I plan to use macros to do this boring thing.

recording

1. press qa in normal mode. "recording" will show in the bottom. This means you are recording macro and save it in "a" register
2. press o to move cursor to next line.
3. press Ctrl+v and u to prepare input unicode character.
4. the number of chinese space is 3000 in unicode. then press 3000.
5. press esc to return normal mode, press q to save current macro

execution

After recording the macro successfully you can use @<your_macro_name> in my case is @a to execute the macro.

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