For me the most important thing was learning to add a 'j' at the end of each macro and running it multiple times. So lets say you want to crack open an array th

For me the most important thing was learning to add a 'j' at the end of each macro and running it multiple times. So lets say you want to crack open an array that looks like this: $address = array( 'name' => '', 'line1' => '', 'line2' => '', 'state' => '', 'country' => '', 'postcode' => '', ); That's a lot of commas and quotes etc. Nowadays I usually punch this into vim: name line1 line2 state country postcode Then I start on the first line and record a macro that wraps that word in quotes, then appends hashrocket, quotes, comma, and then moves to the next line. Run the macro 5 times with 5@<register> and the you get your array.