Re: Macro-keys

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012, Ben Fritz wrote:

> On Wednesday, April 25, 2012 7:58:09 AM UTC-5, esquifit wrote:
>>
>> Speculations aside, a simple mapping like
>>
>> nnoremap q @
>> nnoremap @ q
>>
>> should do what you want. Unless I am too naive.
>
> Sadly I don't expect that to work, but do report back if it does.
>
> :help q says,
>
> "The 'q' command is disabled while executing a register, and it
> doesn't work inside a mapping and :normal."

It works fine here.

As to the original question, for a long time I've used:

:nn Q @q

So 'qq' starts recording the macro named 'q', then 'Q' executes it.
Saves a lot of finger movement if you only usually deal with a single
macro at a time.

--
Best,
Ben H

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