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		minikomi on Oct 6, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Seven habits of effective text editing Also, it's extremely satisfying to record a complex macro and then 100@@ it across a wide swath of your file

mcantor on Oct 6, 2012 | [–]

Recording macros correctly and quickly is an art. Text objects help immensely, since they can handle a lot of edge cases in different places across your code.

dasil003 on Oct 7, 2012 | [–]

One of my favorite tricks was binding @q to <space>. It really speeds up playback so I don't need to necessarily count occurrences or go recursive.

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