[alinajaf]

I don't meet many other vim users who like macros but recently I've had call to use them daily. They completely remove any repetitive text editing actions, even relatively complex ones like "take these words, each on a new line and make them keys to an array, with the values initialized to ''"

The only problem is that they take a lot of practice before you get them right first time. After a while though, you learn to record them fairly quickly and they streamline your workflow. They also melt the faces of anyone pairing with you.

The best part is they get better with age. The more vim commands you know, the more opportunities you find for using them.