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Eh, I disagree. First, vim emulation is horrific -- absolutely horrific. With the exception of ViEmu, and possibly the new Emacs one (haven't had the chance to try it), there's not a single good Vim emulator. Second, @@ is two keystrokes, and it's incredibly annoying to type @@n@@n@@n@@n@@n@@n in order to invoke the macro 6 times. " n n n n n n" is much easier.

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What do you mean by "n"? Moving to the next position in a search? You can structure a macro to end with going to the position of next edit. Then you can hit 100@@ or whatever and do all of the edits in one go.

Most of the time you want to individually review each instance of what the macro is doing before invoking it, so 100@@ is rarely used. (At least by me.)

Macros in vim can call themselves; so if you want to make an edit across an entire file, something like:

<esc>qqq //clear q macro qq //start recording q macro /foo // search for something 3clbar // do some edit @q // call q macro q //done recording @q //invoke q macro

No need to guess how many times to call your macro.

> there's not a single good Vim emulator

vrapper (for eclipse) is on par with emacs evil, actually.

https://github.com/vrapper/vrapper

@@n.n.n.n.n.n. isn't much worse than the version with spaces.

edit: but . doesn't work for macros, as was pointed out.

. can't invoke a macro.

Huh, so it can't.

evil-mode is fantastic. (I think it might be the new one you haven't tried yet) combined with key-chord mode, it will handle the "jk mapped to esc" use case, I have mine mapped to "jj"

(key-chord-define evil-insert-state-map "jj" 'evil-normal-state)

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